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Bebo Launches 'Open Media' A New Vision for Social Media and Entertainment — Bebo, the global social network, opens its doors to media brands, deepening user engagement with popular entertainment. Launch partners include global media brands CBS, MTV Networks, BBC, Turner, ESPN, Yahoo!, Next New Networks, Crackle and more.
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Michael Learmonth / Silicon Alley Insider: Bebo's Anti-Hulu Pitch: We Play Your Video, You Keep The $
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Yahoo settles lawsuit with jailed Chinese journalists — UPDATE: Includes statement from Yahoo and information from World Organization for Human Rights USA. — Yahoo listened. — A week after being excoriated by lawmakers over supplying information to the Chinese government that landed …
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Yahoo Settles Case Amid Pressure from Congress and Mounting Legal Challenges (11/13/07) — Bowing to intense pressure from Congress last week, and significant legal challenges in court, Yahoo agreed to settle the lawsuit filed against it by Human Rights USA.
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:Yahoo Quickly Settles Lawsuit Over Jailed Chinese Journalist
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Marvel Comics shows its marvelous colors in online archive — The comic book industry makes a long-delayed step into cyberspace today when Marvel Comics unveils the industry's first online archive of more than 2,500 back issues, including the first appearances of Spider-Man, the X-Men and the Incredible Hulk.
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Mergers: Commission opens in-depth investigation into Google's proposed take over of DoubleClick — HTML: — EN — FR — DE — PDF: — EN — FR — DE — DOC: — EN — FR — DE — IP/07/1688 — Mergers: Commission opens in-depth investigation into Google's proposed take over of DoubleClick
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Murdoch says WSJ Web site to drop fees — ADELAIDE, Australia - News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch said Tuesday he intends to make access to The Wall Street Journal's Web site free, dropping subscription fees in exchange for anticipated ad revenue. — "We are studying it and we expect …
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Rustybrick / Search Engine Roundtable:
Google is Changing the Definition of a "Click" on AdSense Ads — Last night I received an email from Google notifying me that they are changing the required action of a user, for a click to occur on an AdSense ad. Google said previously, if you clicked anywhere on an ad …
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Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:Google Redefines the Clickable AdSense Area
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Owen Thomas / Valleywag:
Bank intern busted by Facebook [Your Privacy Is An Illusion] — Who says Facebook is the province of the young? Increasingly, the 30something bosses of naive recent college grads are proving adept at turning the social network against its earliest adopters.
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Stefano Mazzocchi / Stefano's Linotype:
Dalvik: how Google routed around Sun's IP-based licensing restrictions on Java ME — Sun released their "free java" source code under the GPLv2 to both win the free software crowd and capture peripheral innovation and bug fixing from the community. For the java standard edition (aka …
Kevin J. Martin / New York Times:
The Daily Show — IN many towns and cities, the newspaper is an endangered species. At least 300 daily papers have stopped publishing over the past 30 years. Those newspapers that have survived are struggling financially. Newspaper circulation has declined steadily for more than 10 years.
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San Francisco Chronicle:
Now the other Google founder is planning a secret wedding — (11-12) 23:29 PST San Francisco — Google Inc. co-founder Larry Page is planning to wed his girlfriend, Lucy Southworth, at a ceremony next month that is steeped in secrecy. — The event is scheduled for the weekend of Dec. 8 …
Long Zheng / istartedsomething:
"Citron" colored 4/8GB Zune discovered — The Zune software hasn't been released for very long but I've already thrown my usual arsenal of weapons at it in the hope something undisclosed in the source will waive the white flag. Fortunately, I won't go to sleep empty handed as I've discovered …
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Tom Espiner / CNET News.com:
Microsoft exec calls XP hack 'frightening' — A Microsoft executive calls the ease with which two British e-crime specialists managed to hack into a Windows XP computer as both "enlightening and frightening." — The demonstration took place Monday at an event sponsored by Get Safe Online …
Adam Pash / Lifehacker:
Build a Hackintosh Mac for Under $800 [Hack Attack] — If the high price tag for Apple hardware has kept you from buying a Mac but you're willing to roll up your sleeves and get adventurous, you can build your own "Hackintosh"—a PC that runs a patched version of OS X Leopard. What?!, you say.
