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Alex Johnson / MSNBC:
Msnbc.com acquires Newsvine — First acquisition in 11-year history moves company in new direction — Newsvine.com pays users for their stories and displays articles based on user rankings. — REDMOND, Wash. - Msnbc.com is diving into citizen journalism and social media by acquiring Newsvine.com …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Breaking: Newsvine Acquired By MSNBC.com — Social news site Newsvine, which launched in March 2006, has been acquired by MSNBC.com, a fifty-fifty joint venture between Microsoft and NBC. This is MSNBC.com's first acquisition. — The deal, which closed on October 5, was all cash, but the acquisition price is not being disclosed.
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GigaOM, Associated Press, Neowin.net, ParisLemon, iPlot, mathewingram.com/work, chartreuse and Digg
Jeremy Wagstaff / loose wire blog:
When Old Media Buys a Community — MSNBC, owned by MSN and NBC, has bought Newsvine, a sort of citizen journalism, blogging and news-sharing site. But who stands to lose from the deal, and what does it tell us about the equity of Web 2.0? — One commenter on the page that announces the news hits the nail firmly on the head:
Miguel Helft / International Herald Tribune:
With 'phone' project, Google has mobile ad dollars in its sights — SAN FRANCISCO: For more than two years, a large group of engineers at Google has been working in secret on a mobile phone project. As leaks about their efforts have trickled out, expectations in the technology world …
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Alltel dives into WiFi, offers up variety of plans — Based on a new section of Alltel's website, it seems pretty safe to say that the carrier is jumping head first into the WiFi arena. Apparently, Alltel customers can now sign up for a variety of WiFi plans that will enable them to surf …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Alltel Adds WiFi To Mobile Data Mix — Alltel Wireless, the Little Rock, Ark.-based mobile company that recently went private, is adding WiFi as a data access option for its customers. The service will cost between $10 and $30 a month, depending on the plan.
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Marc Andreessen / blog.pmarca.com:
OK, you're right, it IS a bubble — [IMPORTANT WARNING: What follows is satire. I'm NOT being serious. Except for one paragraph at the very end. See if you can spot that one.] — When I first started this blog four months ago, one of the first substantive posts I wrote was called "Bubbles on the brain".
Aaron Ricadela / Business Week:
SAP's Business Intelligence Leap — To expand in one of business software's hottest sectors, the German giant detours from its organic growth plan and agrees to buy Business Objects for $6.8 billion — In the rapidly consolidating business software market, SAP (SAP) has taken a conservative tack …
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Official: Selling Paid Links Can Hurt Your PageRank Or Rankings On Google — More and more, I've been seeing people wondering if they've lost traffic on Google because they were detected to be selling paid links. However, Google's generally never penalized sites for link selling.
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Andy Beard, WebProNews, ReveNews Online Revenue …, BlogStorm, Digital Inspiration and Jim Kukral
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Intel launches a company-ranking site: CoolSW — Tomorrow, Intel is launching a Web site that lets people rank the most compelling software business ideas. — Called CoolSW (it stands for "cool software"), the site looks much like Digg, the popular site that lets users rank technology-oriented news …
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Miguel Helft / New York Times:
A Way to Find Your Corner of the Internet Sky — IF you know what you're looking for online, Google and other Internet search engines do a pretty good job of helping you find it. But what if you don't know exactly what you want? — Say you are a soccer fan, but you are neither in the market …
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Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Google and I.B.M. Join in 'Cloud Computing' Research — Even the nation's elite universities do not provide the technical training needed for the kind of powerful and highly complex computing Google is famous for, say computer scientists. So Google and I.B.M. are announcing today …
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Chris Leckness / Mobility Site:
ETEN Glofiish M800 - TyTN II Contender? — In the US, we are all excited about the at&t coming of the HTC TyTN II, the at&t Tilt. Well, Pocketinfo.nl has the word on the ETEN Contender, The Glofiish M800. — Some specifications: — 500 MHz Samsung processor — 256 MB ROM — 2 cameras
