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Valleywag:
Online Advertising: Facebook's secret rate card — Here's a new Facebook revenue estimate to think about: $90 million a year — from sponsorships alone. Sure, I've poked fun at Facebook's fanciful figures. The social network's board members, after all, can't get their stories straight …
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Amp'd Mobile asset list full of porn — Amp'd Mobile, the mobile entertainment company that burned through $350 million in venture backing before imploding and auctioning off its assets last week, continues to baffle. — As mentioned, the chief executive flew around a black helicopter on company expense …
Jonathan Richards / Times of London:
YouTube to filter out copyrighted videos — Google plans to start checking videos on YouTube for copyright infringement within the next two months — Google has said that it hopes to have technology in place by September that would prevent copyright-infringing videos being posted on YouTube, its video-sharing site.
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft Works to become a free, ad-funded product — Microsoft's next version of its small-business/home productivity suite, due imminently, will be free and ad-funded. — Microsoft Works 9.0 — which will be the new product's name, if Microsoft opts to stick with its current nomenclature …
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life:
A-List Technology Bloggers: What Are They Good For? — Mike Torres has a blog post entitled A-listers don't always "get it" where he writes … After seeing the various posts about Facebook over the weekend, I think it is now safe to say that a lot of the popular technology bloggers …
Dan Primack / PE HUB:
Qualcomm Backs iPhone Competitor — The condition: Apple is unable to do to mobile phones what it did to mp3 players, with subsequent versions of the iPhone acting as market leaders instead of as category killers. — The consequence: A bunch of mobile Internet app providers will be able …
Robert Levine / New York Times:
Music From Independent Labels to Be Sold via Cellphones — EMusic, the nation's second-largest online music seller after Apple's iTunes, plans to announce a deal with AT&T today that will allow people to buy songs from independent labels through their cellphones, without the need to go through a personal computer.
Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
Web 2.0 Inefficiency: Crossposting On Twitter, Facebook, Google Reader, Etc. — So I got my Publishing 2.0 feed set up to crosspost to Facebook and Twitter, but I'm wondering about the utility of doing so, given that most of the people I'm connected to on Facebook and Twitter also subscribe to my regular blog RSS feed.
Benjamin Edelman / Ben Edelman:
Zango Practices Violating Zango's Recent Settlement with the FTC … In my hands-on testing, Zango continues numerous practices likely to confuse, deceive, or otherwise harm typical users as well as practices specifically contrary to Zango's obligations under its November 2006 settlement with the FTC.
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Wendy Boswell / Lifehacker:
Technophilia: Get productive with the best Facebook Apps — While most people are content with using Facebook to connect with friends and colleagues, Facebook can also help you get things done. With Facebook apps - third-party plugins - you can make Facebook into your own personal Mr. Belvedere.
Natalie O'Brien / NEWS.com.au:
Spies watch rise of virtual terrorists — THE bomb hit the ABC's headquarters, destroying everything except one digital transmission tower. The force of the blast left Aunty's site a cratered mess. — Just weeks before, a group of terrorists flew a helicopter into the Nissan building, creating an inferno that left two dead.
Xiang Ji / Business Week:
Asian Tourists Love to Click and Go — Expect huge growth in the region's tourism through the end of the decade, thanks to rising incomes and the popularity of travel booking sites — When 29-year-old Sabrina Fu decided to spend a week exploring the ancient temple ruins of Angkor Wat in Cambodia …
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Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Nvidia gaining ground on Intel, AMD in graphics — Nvidia painted a pretty picture in the graphics market during the second quarter. — The company's market share soared by 81 percent compared with a year ago, as it overtook AMD's ATI division and erased some of Intel's lead in the market for PC graphics …
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Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Computer scientists hack Calif. e-voting machines — Forgive me if this isn't some major news flash, but let's document it for posterity anyway: University of California computer scientists have recently shown it's possible to carry out a bevy of hacks on electronic voting machines currently certified for use in the Golden State.
