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David Pogue / New York Times:
Apple Offers New Goodies in Leopard System — If you're a computer company, what on earth do you add to the sixth annual version of your operating system? — It's not as though there are any glaring holes left. Nobody is still crying out for a better way to organize photos.
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Walter S. Mossberg / Wall Street Journal:
Leopard: Faster, Easier Than Vista — Upgrade of Apple's OS — Isn't Revolutionary, — But It Beats Microsoft's — The Mac is on a roll. Apple Inc.'s perennially praised but slow-selling Macintosh computers have surged in popularity in the past few years, with sales growing …
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Steve / The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs:
Oh snap! Faceberg raises another $500 million — Word up. Hot on the heels of the big investment by the Borg only a few hours ago, Facebook has now landed another $500 million from two hedge funds in New York. At the same $15 billion valuation. It is on, people.
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Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
Facebook Raises Another $500 Milion — Forbes' Elizabeth Corcoran, reporting from the magazine's MEET Conference in L.A., says Facebook raised another $500 million yesterday in addition to Microsoft's $240 million. The money is supposed to have come from two NYC-based hedge funds …
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Reports of PodTech's demise are bull#### — It's amazing. A fake blogger, Fake Steve Jobs, reports that PodTech is closing down. This is total, 100% bull####. Not even deserving of a response. I'm not leaving PodTech. When, er if, I am you'll read it here on my blog.
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Steve / The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs:
PodTech: RIP — Well, they've had a good run but apparently the Casa de Scoble is heading for the big sleep. Or is it the dirt nap? I can never remember. No announcement yet but we hear it's imminent. Word is that Scoble was planning to bail in January anyway but now he won't have to.
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
PodTech Heading Towards The Deadpool? — Fake Steve Jobs aka Daniel Lyons has written that he's heard that PodTech will be closing up shop with an announcement imminent. — We can't confirm the rumor although I have pinged Robert Scoble asking him to comment. If we get a response we'll publish it.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Perspective: Facebook Is Now 5th Most Valuable U.S. Internet Company — Yesterday came news that Microsoft invested $240 million into Facebook, valuing the company at $15 billion. — How much is $15 billion? It's hard to understand how much money that really is.
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Brad Stone / New York Times:
Microsoft to Pay $240 Million for Stake in Facebook — Microsoft has won a high-profile technology industry battle with Google and Yahoo to invest in the social networking upstart Facebook. — The two companies said on Wednesday that Microsoft would invest $240 million for a 1.6 percent stake in Facebook.
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Terrence Russell / Epicenter:
Three Reasons Microsoft Underpaid For Facebook — It's official — the truth is less profitable than fiction. Facebook has secured the cornerstone of its $15 billion valuation with today's Microsoft alliance. But at $240 million, that's only a 1.6% slice of a much larger pie.
Dan Goodin / The Register:
More gnashing of teeth after Microsoft update brings PCs to a standstill — Resource-hogging search app sprung on reluctant admins — Something seems to have gone horribly wrong in an untold number of IT departments on Wednesday after Microsoft installed a resource-hogging search application …
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Business Wire:
BEA Board Sets $21.00 Per Share Value Position — SAN JOSE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—The Board of Directors of BEA Systems (NASDAQ: BEAS - News) today issued the following statement: — "We continue to believe that Oracle's unsolicited proposal to acquire BEA at $17.00 per share significantly …
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Sue Polinsky / Download Squad:
At the Top of Google — I haven't met two small business owners in a meeting where one doesn't ask how to get his or her site to the top of the Google search results list. There are transparent reasons for wanting to be first: you get more clicks, your business seems important …
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Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Live Search Almost Certainly Coming To Facebook — During this afternoon's Microsoft-Facebook conference call, the question was asked whether the new deal would include paid search. Microsoft's Kevin Johnson and Facebook's Owen Van Natta declined to directly answer the question …
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Brad Stone / New York Times:Microsoft Buys Stake in Facebook
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Dominic Kennedy / Times of London:
Labour 'conspired with phone companies to keep prices high' — Labour conspired with mobile-phone companies to let them impose high bills on consumers for international calls, according to documents obtained by The Times. — Frank messages involving civil servants and a minister detail …
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BBC:
Virtual worlds threaten 'values' — The growing number of toy-themed virtual worlds aimed at young people risks undermining the basic human values we wish to instill in children. — So said industry veteran Lord Puttnam opening a London conference devoted to discussing virtual worlds.
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Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
Friendster Announces Developer Platform; Can You Say "Commodity"? — Good thing we launched the CrunchBase widget, because you may need it to refresh your memory about a certain social networking company called Friendster that's announcing its own developer platform today (okay okay …
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