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Ginger Tulley / Six Apart News:
Six Apart Announces New Home for LiveJournal — Acquisition of LiveJournal, creation of new operating company and investment fund by SUP promise new innovation and expansion for pioneering online community — San Francisco, CA - December 3, 2007 - Six Apart, the world's leading independent …
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HipMojo.com, Epicenter, LiveJournal 2008, Download Squad, sup.com, Digital Trends, Advertising Lab and /Message
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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Oops! Yahoo dumps Britney — You've got to give Yahoo credit for trying drag the collective mentality out of the celebrity gossip gutter. — Every year, the company releases a top 10 list for Web searches. Last year, Britney Spears was the No. 1 most popular search term.
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
In Japan Half The Top Selling Books Are Written On Mobile Phones — With all the talk about Amazon's Kindle, there's a bigger revolution taking place and those who studied classic literature will be horrified. In Japan, half of the top ten selling works of fiction in the first six months of 2007 were composed on mobile phones.
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Justin Norrie / Sydney Morning Herald:In Japan, cellular storytelling is all the rage
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Oliver Starr / blognation USA:
Marc Orchant Suffers Massive Coronary — THIS IS NOT AN ATTEMPT AT HUMOR — PLEASE REPOST — At some time between 7:30 and 8:10 AM on Sunday Morning December 2nd, 2007, Marc Orchant, my fellow author on this blog, as well as one of my closest friends sustained a massive heart attack while working in his home office.
Business Wire:
Vivendi and Activision to Create Activision Blizzard - World's Largest, Most Profitable Pure-Play Video Game Publisher — Combination Brings Activision's Best-Selling Video Games, Including Guitar Hero(R), Call of Duty(R), and Tony Hawk, Together With Vivendi Games' Portfolio of Leading Franchises …
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PR Newswire:
Popular WD Passport(R) Now Available With a Whopping 320 GB of Storage — Popular WD Passport(R) Now Available With a Whopping 320 GB of Storage. (PRNewsFoto/Western Digital Corp.) — LAKE FOREST, CA UNITED STATES — Western Digital Corp. logo. (PRNewsFoto) — LAKE FOREST, CA USA
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
Photobucket, Picasa bring photo-sharing to TiVo — Apparently, fast-forwarding through commercials just isn't enough. TiVo announced on Monday that users of select photo-sharing services are now able to access their image collections through its set-top boxes.
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Mark Sullivan / PC World:
The Most Anti-Tech Organizations in America — These groups line up against tech interests in courtrooms and corridors of power across the country. — Their names keep coming up over and over again in courtrooms and corridors of power across the country—those groups whose interests always seem …
Loren Baker / Search Engine Journal:
Google Banning Ads for PageRank Selling Schemes — On a blog post discussing why Google does not like irrelevant Sponsored Blog Posts that pass link juice, Matt Cutts left a little tidbit of information in a comment stating that the Google Spam team and the AdWords team have gotten together …
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / CNN:
NBC pulls its TV shows from Apple iTunes — No more ad-free episodes of The Office, 30 Rock, Scrubs or Friday Night Lights for $1.99 each. — As promised, NBC (GE) removed all its content and that of its affiliates from the iTunes Store over the weekend after its contract with Apple (AAPL) expired.
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Silicon Alley Insider, TechCrunch, MacUser, iLounge, Mashable! and The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
TeXtra's Natali Del Conte Leaves Podshow For CNET TV — TeXtra, a tech news video show hosted by former TechCrunch writer Natali Del Conte, may be shutting down well shy of its first birthday this upcoming February 13. That's because CNET has poached Natali away from Podshow, which owns TeXtra.
Daisy Whitney / TVWeek.com:
Online Fame Easy; Ads Harder to Get — Income for Web Video Creators Varies From 'Retire' to 'Keep Your Day Job' — Some Web video stars, like the "Ask a Ninja" guys, are raking it in. Some, like Beet.TV video blogger Andy Plesser, are earning a hefty supplement to their day jobs.
Staska / Unwired View:
NEW NOKIA 6 OR 8 MEGAPIXEL IMAGING SLIDER IN THE WORKS? — It's been a while now since Nokia came up with an interesting phone form factor innovation in an actual phone, instead of patent applications. — You know, something along the lines of Nokia 7380 "lipstick", Nokia N92 TV phone or Nokia N93 Camcorder/imaging phone.
Clint Boulton / eWEEK.com:
Microsoft Boosts Tools for adCenter, Live Search — Microsoft unveils online ad and search utilities to help advertisers and search engine experts do their jobs better. — Microsoft said Dec. 3 it has created two new utilities, one designed to improve the way partners …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Innovating Our Way to Financial Crisis — The financial crisis that began late last summer, then took a brief vacation in September and October, is back with a vengeance. — How bad is it? Well, I've never seen financial insiders this spooked — not even during the Asian crisis of 1997-98 …
David Kaplan / paidContent.org:
Internet Ad Spend Set To Overtake Radio In '08, Magazines By 2010: Report — Despite growing pressures on global advertising dollars in general, ZenithOptimedia's optimistic outlook for online ad spending is undiminished, projecting that the category will surpass radio ad dollars in 2008 and the amount spent on magazines by 2010.
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James Rossiter / Times of London:
Secrets of Shell and Rolls-Royce come under attack from China's spies — Rolls-Royce and Royal Dutch Shell have fallen victim to Chinese espionage attacks, The Times has learnt. — Sustained spying assaults on Britain's largest engineering company and on the world's second-biggest oil …
