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L. Gordon Crovitz / Wall Street Journal:
A Report to Our Readers — Dear Readers: — Since May, one of the biggest business stories has been who will own Dow Jones, publisher of The Wall Street Journal — despite this era's usual relegation of a mere $5 billion transaction to a footnote. The coverage has been gratifying …
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Peter Lauria / New York Post:
DISCOVERY BUYS GREEN — Discovery Communications has scooped up a companion Web site to its upcoming Planet Green cable network, agreeing to buy Treehugger.com for about $10 million, The Post has learned. — The deal, expected to be announced today, marks the first acquisition for Discovery under …
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DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS ACQUIRES TREEHUGGER.COM — Discovery Communications, the number-one nonfiction media company, today announced the acquisition of the leading eco-lifestyle website, TreeHugger.com. The interactive site becomes part of Discovery's global multiplatform initiative Planet Green …
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Google, Others Contest Copyright Warnings — Diehard baseball fans can recite by heart the familiar copyright warnings that run with every game on television. — Now, a computer-industry trade group is crying foul, saying those warnings and others like it on movies and books are trampling …
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Stuff.co.nz:
The future according to Sony — UPDATED What are the challenges ahead for the PlayStation 3? Warwick Light, of Sony Computer Entertainment New Zealand, discusses them with GERARD CAMPBELL. — Warwick Light, Sony Computer Entertainment New Zealand's head of marketing, calls the PlayStation 3 an "incredible transformer".
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David Carnoy / Crave: The gadget blog:
Sony to add Tivo capabilities to the PS3 in 2008? — What's next as Sony continues to add features to the PS3? — (Credit: Sony) — GameSpot UK is running an article that's based on an interview with Warwick Light, Sony Computer Entertainment New Zealand's head of marketing.
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Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Google Maps Plus Sign In Sponsored Results — AccuraCast reports seeing Google UK experimenting by placing a Google Maps expand feature within Google sponsored results.
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Erica Sadun / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Liveblogging the iPhone 1.0.1 update — The new iPhone 1.0.1 update just hit iTunes. TUAW is here to keep you informed about what that update means to you—as a normal user and/or as a hacker. Here's the dish we've learned about, what we're speculating about and what we know for a fact.
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Ethan Smith / Wall Street Journal:
Digital-Music Holdout AC/DC Spurns iTunes, Signs With Verizon — AC/DC, one of the last high-profile holdouts in the digital-music era, is finally making its 17-album catalog available to online music buyers. But in a twist that highlights shifting power dynamics in the world of digital music retailing …
Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
TC Interns' 10 Favorite Facebook Applications — As a few titans of tech blogging recently began to go back and forth over whether platform-enhanced Facebook is really worth the hassle, we lowly interns over here at TechCrunch decided to list our favorite Facebook applications …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Amazon To Launch Payments Services; Will Compete With PayPal and Google Checkout — Look for a launch announcement by Amazon this week or next of a new web service around payments, adding to their S3 (storage), EC2 (virtual server) and other services. They've been quietly testing the service …
Business Wire:
Time Warner Inc. Reports Second Quarter 2007 Results — Board of Directors Authorizes New $5 Billion Stock Repurchase Program — NEW YORK—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Time Warner Inc. (NYSE:TWX - News) today reported financial results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2007.
Monica Chen / DigiTimes:
AMD software let defective graphics cards slip into the channel — AMD's official graphics card diagnostic and validation software was recently discovered to have a bug that failed to detect defective ATI Radeon HD 2400 and 2600 graphics cards, according to sources at graphics card makers.
Harrison Hoffman / The Web Services Report:
Avenue A/Razorfish announces SiLC search engine optimization tool — I got a chance to sit down with William Flaiz, VP of SEO and Web Analytics at Avenue A/Razorfish today at ad:tech Chicago to talk about its new search engine optimization technology. For those of you who don't know …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
New Study: Top 50k blogs had $500 million in 2006 Revenue — A new study being published by the University of Texas and Chitika says that the top 50,000 blogs may have generated around $500 million in aggregate 2006 revenue. The data behind the study is rather thin - They are looking …
Adario Strange / Wired News:
After Selling Opsware, Andreessen Turns to His Third Startup, Ning — When Hewlett-Packard acquired Opsware for $1.6 billion in cash last week, it changed the reputation of serial entrepreneur and web pioneer Marc Andreessen forever. — Andreessen was the golden boy of the internet's early days …
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