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Jyri / Jaiku | Your Conversation:
We're joining Google — Exciting news: Google has bought Jaiku today. — What does that mean? First and foremost, we're of course continuing to support our existing users. So fear not: your Jaiku phone, the Web site, IM, SMS, and API will continue to work normally.
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Adam Ostrow / Mashable!:
Breaking: Google Buys Jaiku; Not Twitter? — Jaiku has announced that it has been acquired by Google. Jaiku is the Twitter-like service for keeping up with your friends via the Web or SMS. Terms of the deal are not being disclosed by the companies. — According to Jaiku:
Marshall Kirkpatrick / Read/WriteWeb:
Google Acquires Microblogging Service Jaiku — Finnish short messaging and microblogging service Jaiku has been acquired by Google, the company says. That Google bought this competitor of Twitter, the service founded by Blogger founder Evan Williams, instead of Twitter is notable.
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch UK:
Jaiku bought by Google — BREAKING NEWS: Jaiku, the Twitter-like service from Finland, has been bought by Google. — Jaiku Founders Jyri Engeström and Petteri Koponen today posted this on their homepage: … The terms of the acquisition have not been released.
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Googling Google
Ryan Hayward / Inside AdSense:
Introducing video units — AdSense isn't just for ads anymore; it's also a place to get video content for your site — and earn extra revenue at the same time. — We're excited about the launch of video units — a new way to enrich your site with quality, relevant video content in an embedded, customizable player.
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Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Google to Put YouTube Videos on Its Ad Network — Google is taking the first steps toward turning its powerful advertising network, which places ads on hundreds of thousands of Internet sites, into a system for distributing content — and more ads — across the Web.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / Read/WriteWeb:Here Comes the Money: YouTube Videos Coming to AdSense
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The Register, Jim Kukral, Bubblegeneration Strategy Lab, NewTeeVee, franticindustries, WinBeta, Mashable!, Variety and Digg
Brad Stone / Bits:
Is TiVo's Comeback the Real Deal? — TiVo, the DVR pioneer, is announcing on Tuesday that it is bringing a wide selection of music to users of its increasingly versatile TV set-top boxes. Users whose TiVo boxes are connected to the Internet can now sign up for RealNetworks' Rhapsody music service …
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Joseph Weisenthal / paidContent.org:Tivo and Rhapsody in Subscription Music Deal
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Wall Street Journal:
AT&T Buys Aloha Wireless Spectrum — AT&T Inc. has agreed to pay $2.5 billion in cash to acquire wireless licenses in the 700-megahertz frequency, a valuable slice of spectrum suitable for delivering speedy Internet access. — The nation's largest phone company would obtain the spectrum …
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Cynthia Brumfield / IP Democracy:AT&T Buys Aloha's 700 MHz Spectrum for $2.5 Bil.
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Wall Street Journal:
As Tech Heats Up, Sages Dust Off Bubble Indicators — Goofy-Names Index Rises, — Perks Gauge Glows Red; — A 5th-Grader as Founder — SAN FRANCISCO — The Federal Reserve monitors things like inventory levels and housing starts to gauge the economy's direction.
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The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:Bubble Indicators — Goofy names, retread startup ideas …
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Andy Greenberg / Forbes:
Brightcove Unleashes A BitTorrent Stream — BitTorrent, a company whose name has long meant digital piracy to content owners, now wants to be the online media industry's humble servant. On Tuesday, the company debuted tools on the video service, Brightcove, that spread the work …
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Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:BitTorrent jumps into enterprise market with content delivery service
Olga Kharif / Business Week:
Wal-Mart's Latest Sale: Broadband — The retail giant's ISP turn is likely to push down prices and squeeze out competition. Will other big-box stores follow suit? — Broadband sellers, beware. A new provider is on the scene—and it's a known price cutter.
Daniel Terdiman / CNET News.com:
Google tools to power virtual worlds — Get ready for online games set in your favorite Google Earth locations. — Virtual-worlds platform developer Multiverse Network is set to announce a partnership Tuesday that will allow anyone to create a new online interactive 3D environment …
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Ogle Earth, RealityPrime, Mashable!, InsideGoogle, Virtual Worlds News, Raph's Website and Between the Lines
Lucy Sherriff / The Register:
Hard disk innovators get physics Nobel — Giant Magnetoresistance - real world nanotech — The 2007 Nobel prize for physics has been awarded to the nanotech boffins behind our ever shrinking hard disks, Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg. — The pair were honoured for the …
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Jeff Smykil / Infinite Loop:
Rocks found in place of girl's brand new iPod... twice — Nearly every teenager either has an iPod or wants one. There are a few exceptions, but the vast majority of teens sport (or pretend to sport) Apple's wildly-popular digital audio player. So imagine yourself, for a moment …
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Engadget, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, MacNN, TECH.BLORGE.com, Gizmodo, CrunchGear and The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs
Jim Puzzanghera / Los Angeles Times:
Google logo tweak sends critics into orbit — WASHINGTON — Should the world's most-used search engine be more of a Yankee Google Dandy? — Google Inc. occasionally features light-hearted doodles on its colorful home-page logo to commemorate special occasions.
CNN:
Ask.com Ad Pact With Google Ends Soon — Oct. 9, 2007 (Investor's Business Daily delivered by Newstex) — In February, Barry Diller spoke confidently when he said his Ask.com would soon renew its long-running ad pact with Google that expires at year's end.
