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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
AOL Layoffs Letter From CEO Randy Falco — More to come on this story, but AOL will lay off 2,000 employees. Here is the letter to AOL employees that went out at 11 a.m. EDT today from CEO Randy Falco: — Dear AOL colleague, — Just over a year ago, AOL embarked on an incredibly complex …
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Confirmed: AOL Laying Off 2,000: Randy Falco Email — AOL has confirmed the mass layoffs we have been writing about for the last month. In a company-wide email sent at 11am this morning, AOL president Randy Falco said the "realignment" would include a reduction in force of 2,000 AOLers.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Google Tops Feed Reader and Social Bookmark Rankings — Some interesting audience-engagement data just came out from AddThis.com, which ranks the top feed readers and bookmarking services by how actively they are used. These rankings are based on how many times people across the Web add …
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Reuters:
Led Zeppelin to sell music online — LONDON (Reuters) - British rockers Led Zeppelin will offer their music online for the first time next month, they said on Monday. — The band, whose reunion gig in London in November prompted more than a million fans to apply for 10,000 available tickets …
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Jeff Leeds / New York Times:
Led Zeppelin to Make Its Songs Available Digitally — It's been a long time, but Led Zeppelin, one of the last superstar acts to refrain from selling its music online, is finally offering its catalog to digital-music fans. — The shift by Led Zeppelin, whose reunion concert in London next month …
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USA Today:
Google's GPhone strategy could keep user costs low — SEATTLE - Google's (GOOG)widely anticipated - and top secret - GPhone mobile phone project could trump Apple's (APPL) glitzy iPhone - by going low cost and low tech, tech analysts say. — That scenario gained credence last week …
John Markoff / Bits:
Bill Gates Presents the One (Really Big) Ringy Dingy — For Cisco, Nortel, Avaya and the other companies that make telecommunications equipment, this Tuesday is a sort of D-Day. — That day, Bill Gates plans to introduce Microsoft's invasion into their business, with a new line of software …
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Greenpeace News:
iPhone's hazardous chemicals — When will promises of a greener Apple bear fruit? — International — Scientific tests, arranged by Greenpeace, reveal that Apple's iPhone contains hazardous chemicals. The tests uncovered two types of hazardous substances, some of which have already been eliminated by other mobile phone makers.
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Rob Mead / Tech.co.uk:
Pirates take over anti-piracy website — The Pirate Bay scores another victory over the music biz — Software pirates have launched an astonishing smash 'n' grab raid on the music biz, stealing the domain name of one of its foremost anti-piracy bodies. — The Pirate Bay has now taken …
Matthew Karnitschnig / Wall Street Journal:
Discovery Plans to Buy Web Site — Discovery Communications Inc., looking to jump-start a stalled Internet strategy, plans to acquire the HowStuffWorks.com Web site for $250 million. — Discovery, owner of cable channels such as Discovery Channel and Animal Planet, said it will use the site …
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Salon:
Hitachi hatches a humongous hard drive — It's Monday morning and you, like me, are wondering, What, no news from the Perpendicular Magnetic Recording Conference taking place in Tokyo next week? — No worries, I've got you covered. Word today is that next week's confab of hard drive technologists …
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Oliver Starr / blognation:
Jiglu is a Smarter Way to Tag Your Content — Tagging is one of those crucial areas that can make or break a site. Not only can it profoundly influence SEO but it can have even greater effects upon HOW people find your site as well as how deeply into your site they delve once they find it.
Ed Burnette / Ed Burnette's Dev Connection:
Yet another Ajax toolkit: Eclipse RAP 1.0 — Wouldn't it be nice if you could write your application once and then reuse the code in both a) a "fat client" for high interactivity and offline usage, and b) a "thin client" inside a web browser for ubiquitous access with zero install?
Nick / Rough Type:
Caterpillar: Web 2.0 giant — There may well be a time when Facebook, YouTube, Digg, and the other Web 2.0 fashion plates make some real money, but for the moment their results pale in comparison to those of the most unexpected beneficiary of the web's recent evolution, the industrial-age stalwart Caterpillar.
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AMD:
AMD Introduces New Tuner Products to Deliver Exceptional HDTV on PCs — Expands industry's premier placeshifting TV-on-the-PC portfolio with addition of TV Wonder™ 650 Combo USB and TV Wonder™ 600 PCI/PCI Express — AMD (NYSE: AMD) is expanding its TV Wonder™ product lineup that enables HDTV on the PC.
