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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Cyberwar: China Declares War On Western Search Sites — Further to our earlier story on visitors to Google Blogsearch being redirected to Baidu in China, new reports have surfaced that would indicate that China has unilaterally blocked all three major search engines in China and is redirecting all requests to Baidu.
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David Feng / blognation China:
Mind Your Step: "Cyberwar" with the Search Engines? — Is it just me, or did someone not get the facts totally right? If a TechCrunch article is to be believed, search engines like Google and Yahoo! seem to be, once again, invisible in the nation of 1.3 billion.
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Youtube is blocked in china — Live.com,yahoo.com and blogsearch.google.com is redirected to baidu.com — Strange. Very strange. — it seems that nearly all foreign search engines are abducted to baidu.com... Philipp Lenssen even www.google.cn? what about www.google.com?
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Baidu Hijacking Google Traffic In China — Google has done it hard in China. Confined to acting within both local laws and US copyright laws it has failed to take the lead in a market that will have more broadband users that the United States in the next 12-18 months.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / Read/WriteWeb:Is China Attacking US Search Engines?
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Microsoft Launches Drag-And-Drop App Builder Popfly — Microsoft just demoed on stage at the Web 2.0 conference a slick Silverlight application development service called Popfly, which just opened up in beta. Popfly lets anyone, even non-coders, create web mashups without writing a single line of code.
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Microsoft's Ballmer: MSFT will acquire 20 companies a year — Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer just said at the Web 2.0 conference here in San Francisco that the software giant will acquire 20 companies a year for the next 5 year, ranging from $50 million to $1 billion.
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Jack Schofield / Guardian Unlimited:Microsoft's Popfly now in public beta
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Chris Williams / The Register:Facebook flotation 'years out', says Zuckerberg
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David A. Utter / WebProNews:Microsoft Smacks Popfly Into Web 2.0
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Thomas S. Mulligan / Los Angeles Times:
Viacom to offer all clips of 'Daily Show' online — Switching gears, it will provide free views of the program in a bid to generate ad revenue. — NEW YORK — Media giant Viacom Inc. is suing YouTube Inc., but it's also taking lessons from the online video service.
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:Viacom's Daily Show YouTube Killer (and a Better Idea)
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Kevin J. Delaney / Wall Street Journal:
Group of Net, Media Companies To Announce Copyright Guidelines — SAN FRANCISCO — A group of Internet, media and technology companies plans to announce today a set of guidelines they have agreed on aimed at protecting copyrights online, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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David Meyer / CNET News.com:
Europe edges closer to mobile phones on planes — The likelihood of mobile-phone usage being allowed on flights within Europe increased on Thursday after telecommunications regulator Ofcom issued a consultation on the matter. — The issue has been brewing for many years but has been hampered until …
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New Smartphone, PDA Options From Verizon Wireless Make Staying Connected A Personal Choice — SCH-i760 from Samsung Offers Verizon Wireless Exclusivity on the Nation's Most Reliable Wireless Network — BASKING RIDGE, NJ — Verizon Wireless is heading into the holidays with a roster …
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Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Gates still has a long to-do list — SAN FRANCISCO—Bill Gates has some unfinished business. — For years, the Microsoft chairman has been a fiery advocate, inside the company and out, for the notion that computers should be controlled, not just by mouse and keyboard, but also by more natural means …
Wall Street Journal:
Will Social Features Make Email Sexy Again? — Email providers are trying to steal some of social networking's thunder as fast-growing services like Facebook Inc. begin to encroach on their turf. — The biggest Web email services — including Yahoo Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Time Warner Inc.'s AOL unit …
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Dan Gallagher / MarketWatch:
EBay shares drop following earnings report — NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Shares of eBay Inc. slid more than 6% in morning trading Thursday amid worries on Wall Street that the company's core online auction business is slowing. — Late Wednesday, eBay (EBAY:, , ) reported results for the third quarter.
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Matt Peckham / Game On:
Time to Buy a PlayStation 3? — It's officially official: the recently announced $400 40GB PlayStation 3 slips onto shelves in the United States on November 2, while the 80GB model drops $100 to $500, giving Sony a much needed one-two sales punch this coming holiday season.
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Richard Martin / InformationWeek:
Google Says Its Health Platform Is Due In Early 2008 — Google plans to bring its immense data storage and organization capacities to the field of medical care and patient records, Marissa Mayer, the company's head of search, said at the Web 2.0 Summit. — Telling her audience to …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Counterstrike: Murdoch, DeWolfe Announce MySpace Platform and New Privacy Controls — Rupert Murdoch and MySpace co-founder Chris DeWolfe announced some of their plans around the MySpace Platform (rumored since last week) this evening at the Web 2.0 conference during a Q&A with John Battelle.
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Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Firefox 3 to go native in appearance — What do you get when you cross a Firefox with a chameleon? — An open-source Web browser whose user interface is adapted to the look of the operating system it's running on. One change planned for the upcoming Firefox version 3, code-named Gran Paradiso, is this more native appearance.
