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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Breaking: Kayak Raises $196 Million, Buys Rival SideStep — Discount travel site Kayak has acquired rival SideStep for $200 million. This story was set to be announced tomorrow but word is leaking all over the place after Sidestep CEO Rob Solomon told his company employees the news at an all hands meeting.
Bryan Gardiner / Epicenter:
Apple Kills Think Secret: Publisher Nick Ciarelli Talks — The two-year court battle between popular rumor site Think Secret and Apple has concluded. Sadly, the end result is that Think Secret will no longer be published. — Speaking by phone Wednesday morning Nick Ciarelli …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Who Will Be The First Tech President? Help Us Endorse A Candidate — Our series of podcasts and interviews with the 2008 presidential candidates continue - so far we've spoken to Barack Obama, John McCain, John Edwards, Mitt Romney and Mike Gravel. We are in active scheduling discussions with all of the remaining candidates.
TED / uncov:
Pownce Is Still Alive — Yeah, I know. It surprised me too, but they are still kicking. Stagnation is the name of the game in Web 2.0, and Pownce is no exception. — In case you forgot, Pownce is a Twitter clone whose added value is the resale of Amazon S3 space.
Dan Goodin / The Register:
Vista sets 2007 land-speed record for copying and deleting — It's been almost nine months since we first reported on Windows Vista's inability to copy, delete and move files without stalling indefinitely, and yet the problem continues. — Screenshots relayed this week by two Reg readers say it better than we ever could.
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Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
Yahoo! Found Guilty of Mass Copyright Infringement — After being hounded by the IFPI since April 2006, Yahoo! China - partly owned by one the world's most prominent internet businesses, Yahoo! - today had its music search (via deep linking) deemed illegal by a Beijing Court …
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A Message From Matthew — “The only people for me are the mad ones. The ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved. Desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles exploding …
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
RIM: BlackBerry demand just swell; Earnings more than double — Research in Motion said Thursday that it added 1.65 million BlackBerry subscriber accounts for the third quarter ended Dec. 1 and shipped more than 3.9 million devices. That demand added up to RIM doubling its earnings.
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Reuters:
Yahoo in Huge Mobile Search Deal — Yahoo nets a 16-country Web services pact with America Movil. — NEW YORK (Reuters)—Internet company Yahoo and Latin America's top mobile phone company America Movil said on Thursday they have struck a deal to provide mobile Web services to 16 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Fair Use Vs. Free Speech in the Internet Age: The Lane Hartwell Problem — The furor surrounding the now infamous Bubble video (embedded above) is not over. To recap: the parody video was watched more than one million times on YouTube, then taken down because photographer Lane Hartwell objected …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Charlie Giancarlo, #2 Guy at Cisco Joins Silver Lake Partners — The exodus of senior management at Cisco Systems (CSCO) continues. Today, Chief Development Officer Charlie Giancarlo and the #2 man at Cisco resigned. He is joining buyout shop, Silver Lake Partners.
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Stefan Constantinescu / IntoMobile:
7 pictures of the Nokia N96 leak! This isn't a render folks, this is real hardware *UPDATE* — All 7 images can be found on my Flickr account here, the images came from Mobile Review. Immediate thoughts are it looks like an N81, but even larger. No specifications are known, but people say it is an N95 in a new shell.
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Todd Woody / Techland:
NetSuite's sweet IPO — By Michael V. Copeland — You have to hand it to NetSuite. While the markets have been whipsawing all around, the on-demand finance software company backed by Oracle (ORCL) CEO Larry Ellison got its IPO done via a Dutch auction at a price, $26, almost double the stock's original target.
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MacNN:
Apple designs next generation iPod Boombox — A new patent filed by Apple describes a next generation digital device called the iPod Boombox, or simply the Boombox. Proof of the Cupertino-based company's plans surfaced today in a patent published by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office …
Rogers Cadenhead / Workbench:
Long Bet Winner: Weblogs vs. The New York Times — In 2002, blogging evangelist Dave Winer made a long bet with New York Times executive Martin Nisenholtz: “In a Google search of five keywords or phrases representing the top five news stories of 2007, weblogs will rank higher than the New York Times' Web site.”
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