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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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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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Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
Studios unveil their copyright protection guidelines — A coalition of major media and technology companies that notably does not include Google appears to be getting serious about copyright on the Internet. — A who's who of media companies—CBS, News Corp.'s Fox Entertainment Group …
Grant Gross / InfoWorld:Web, media companies issue copyright use principles
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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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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 …
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.
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Web 2.0: Cisco's Dan Scheinman Unveils EOS, Entertainment Operating System — Moving on, next at the Web 2.0 conference, Cisco's (CSCO) Dan Scheinman, to talk about the networking giant's strategy in social networking. (They have acquired Tribe and various other things.)
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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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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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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / eWEEK.com:
It's Here! Ubuntu 7.10 Arrives — The latest and greatest Ubuntu arrived on Oct. 18. — Ubuntu users rejoice. Ubuntu 7.10 is here. — Ubuntu, the remarkably popular desktop Linux distribution that tries to bring the latest and greatest open-source programs every six months, arrived Oct. 18.
Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
SocialMedia raises $3.5M to sell ads across social networks — SocialMedia, a company that lets small Facebook applications get exposure by bidding on ad links within Facebook popular applications, has just raised $3.5 million in financing. — Using the marketplace offered by SocialMedia …
Reuters:
Google quarterly profit swells 46 percent — Web search leader Google reported on Thursday a 46 percent rise in profit that topped Wall Street expectations, fueled by accelerating market share gains and tighter cost controls. — Third-quarter net income rose to $1.07 billion …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
The Web is the Platform — The platform wars are over. Long live the Web. That was the basic message delivered by Jeff Huber, Google's vice president of engineering, in a ten-minute presentation at Web 2.0 a few minutes ago. His talk was nominally about widgets (which Google calls Gadgets).
Sarah McBride / Wall Street Journal:
Blu-ray vs. HD DVD: a Solution Abroad — Some Movies Are Available — In Opposing Format Overseas; — Turn Off the French Dubbing — Some savvy consumers are looking overseas for a way to take some of the risk out of buying a next-generation DVD player.
