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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Liveblogging Facebook Advertising Announcement (Social Ads + Beacon + Insights) — I am at Facebook's social advertising announcement in New York City, where Mark Zuckerberg is about to take the stage and tell us all what we already think we know: Facebook is getting into the advertising business in a big way.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Facebook launches its ad platform; Coca-Cola as friend? — Facebook on Tuesday announced its long awaited advertising system, dubbed Facebook Ads. — According to the company's statement, Facebook Ads will allow "businesses to connect with users and target advertising to the exact audiences they want."
Jeremiah Owyang / Web Strategy:
MySpace and Facebook launch new Advertising products, why Hyper Targeting, Social Ads and rise of the "Fan-Sumer" matter to brands — By Jeremiah Owyang, insight from Charlene Li and Shar VanBoskirk. This is also being cross-posted on the Forrester Marketing Blog. — Executive Summary
Jordan McCollum / Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim:Facebook's Announcement — Erick Schonfeld of TechCrunch …
Terrence Russell / Epicenter:Facebook Rolls Out Highly Targeted Viral Ad System
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Crave at CNET UK:
Apple Tablet PC is real, says Asus — Crave hangs with people in high places — that's how we get exclusives and free food. A few weeks ago we were having a civilised dinner with our friends at Asus and angling for cool stories when we were told in a very hushed manner: "Asus is helping Apple build a Tablet PC."
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Red / The Red Ferret Journal:
Nokia perfects the clicky tactile touchscreen - iPhone gnashes teeth, swears revenge — It's taken them 10 years but Nokia boffins have finally perfected a 'touch feedback' touchscreen. Don't be fooled by simple vibrational imitations folks, this is the real McCoy - you press a key on the screen …
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Michael Oneal / Chicago Tribune:
5 newspaper giants in talks about online ad network — Five of the nation's top newspaper companies are taking steps to create a national online advertising network they hope will help them recapture ad revenue leaking away from their print products. — Sources close to the situation said Gannett Co. …
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Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
More Readers Trading Newspapers for Web Sites — THE circulation declines of American newspapers continued over the spring and summer, as sales across the industry fell almost 3 percent compared with the year before, according to figures released yesterday.
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Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Yahoo executives grilled by Congress over China policies: Live-blogging — The U.S. House of Representatives is holding a hearing titled "Yahoo! Inc.'s Provision of False Information to Congress." With a title like that, you can be sure this particular event will be be fair, neutral, and objective.
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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:Congress unimpressed by Yahoo apology for China dissident e-mail testimony
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft CIO Stuart Scott is out — Stuart Scott, who joined Microsoft in 2005 as Corporate Vice President and Chief Information Officer, [has left] was ousted from the company, as of November 5 for violating company policies, Microsoft officials said. — According to a statement from a Microsoft spokesperson:
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Why Google chose the Apache Software License over GPLv2 for Android — Google finally entered the mobile software market by turning the 2005 acquisition of Android into the Open Handset Alliance. Google hopes to promote third-party mobile software development foster a broad developer community …
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Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:FCC chairman supports Google's Open Handset Alliance
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Dave Winer / Scripting News:
I'm not happy with Leopard — I've given Leopard a chance, but it's pretty clear, this is not a good operating system release. — I've been out of the Mac loop for most of the last decade, just got back in a bit over 2 years ago. I don't know if early OS releases are generally as crappy as this one …
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Chris Soghoian / CNET News.com:
Google and the wrongly jailed Indian Net surfer — On August 31, Lakshmana Kailash K. was arrested in Bangalore, India, and charged with posting insulting images of a revered historical figure on the Internet. The police claimed that he had uploaded disrespectful images of Chhatrapati Shivaji …
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Andrew Lim / Crave at CNET UK:
The ten most addictive online flash games ever made — For some people online flash games are a passing distraction to fill the hours between lunch and home time. For others online flash games are a passionate hobby that keeps glued to their monitors while they try and beat their last score.
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Heather Havenstein / PC World:
Microsoft Says it Will Ship Visual Studio 2008 This Month — Microsoft has committed to releasing Visual Studio 2008 and its .Net Framework 3.5 technology by the end of this month. — Recommend this story? — Microsoft Corp. on Monday committed to releasing Visual Studio 2008 …
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Alex Veiga / Associated Press:
Most fans paid $0 for Radiohead album — LOS ANGELES - Radiohead let its fans decide how much to pay for a digital copy of the band's latest release, "In Rainbows," and more than half of those who downloaded the album chose to pay nothing, according to a study by a consumer research firm.
