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Wall Street Journal:
Ticketmaster Buys Major Reseller — Ticketmaster has agreed to pay about $265 million for TicketsNow, a Web site for reselling tickets to concerts and sports events.
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Ticketmaster Announces Agreement to Acquire Leading Online Ticket Resale Marketplace TicketsNow(R) — Acquisition to bolster Ticketmaster's position in ticket resale category and — offer fans greater security, reliability and convenience — W. HOLLYWOOD, Calif. and ROLLING MEADOWS …
Danny Dumas / Gadget Lab:
Breaking: Apple Insider Leaks Ultra-Portable Details — An Apple insider told Wired today that the company's new ultraportable, expected to be seen in public for the first time tomorrow, has an extremely thin profile and is shaped like a teardrop when closed — thicker at the top behind the screen …
Patrik / F-Secure Antivirus Research Weblog:
First Rogue Cleaning Tool for Mac — We've just found the first Mac rogue application and it's called MacSweeper. — It claims to clean your Mac from compromising files and it will always find something to fix/clean but the only way to do so is to buy the program.
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Business Wire:
JiWire to Provide iPhone™ and iPod touch Users With First Ever Ad-Supported Free Wi-Fi Access — JiWire Wi-Fi Advertising Network Members to Offer “Ads for Access"™ Payment Alternative at Premium Airports, Hotels, Cafes — SAN FRANCISCO—(BUSINESS WIRE)—JiWire …
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Glenn Fleishman / Wi-Fi Networking News:JiWire Launches Free, Ad-Supported iPhone, iPod Touch Hotspot Access
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Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Facebook buying Plaxo? — Facebook is “one hundred percent” buying Plaxo, we've just heard from a source. — This follows a rumor previously published by Valleywag asserting that such a deal is underway. — While these types of rumors should be taken with more than a grain of salt …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Plaxo And Facebook Merger Rumors False (So Far) — We know Plaxo is for sale, presumably looking for north of $100 million and telling people around Silicon Valley that they've had an offer for north of $200 million. Revolution Partners, an investment bank, has been pitching them to all the big potential buyers.
Macworld:
Macworld Expo Keynote Coverage — Steve Jobs will be delivering the keynote address for Macworld Expo beginning at 9 a.m. PST on Tuesday. Once the event is under way, Macworld's team of editors will begin live blogging from the Moscone Center in San Francisco.
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Jemima Kiss / PDA:
MacWorld: What will Steve Jobs unveil in today's keynote speech? — Photo: aarontait on Flickr. Some rights reserved. — It's that time of year again - the bi-annual MacWorld orgy in San Francisco. It's four days of Mac heaven for fan boys, gadget obsessives and will vie with last week's CES …
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Locked and loaded: FCC finalizes rules & bidders for 700MHz — Yesterday, the Federal Communications Commission released its final set of rules (PDF) and bidder list (PDF) for next week's 700MHz spectrum auction. Of the 266 applications originally received by the FCC, 214 bidders have made the final cut.
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Robby Stein / Official Gmail Blog:
New Gmail for the iPhone — We've just released a new look and feel for the mobile version of Gmail on your iPhone. Our goal: make Gmail fit nicely as part of the latest Google on your iPhone experience. This means that we had to make Gmail faster and more fluid.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
New Video Explains the Basics of Data Portability — We've been writing a lot about data portability here lately, and specifically the DataPortability.org Work Group. High level members of Google and Facebook staff joined the group a week ago yesterday, key people from LinkedIn, SixApart …
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Swedish prosecutors dump 4,000 legal docs on The Pirate Bay — As the calendar pages turned from 2007 to 2008, one constant remained for the motion picture and music industries: The Pirate Bay's willingness to ignore their threats (and copyrights) to the point that the Swedish group's site …
Kelly K. Spors / Wall Street Journal:
New Services Help Bloggers Bring in Ad Revenue — Users Can Customize Appearance of Spots, Use Video and Audio — If you're not making money off your blog, 2008 might be the year. — As more people see potential in earning money off the Internet, there is a quickly expanding array …
Justin Mullins / New Scientist:
Invention: Expressive pen — Expressive pen — While the written word has taken great leaps in recent years with the advent of computer-based publishing and the global dissemination of text across the web, the humble pen is more or less the same device it has ever been.
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