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EU Press Room:
Mergers: Commission clears proposed acquisition of DoubleClick by Google — Mergers: Commission clears proposed acquisition of DoubleClick by Google … Google operates an Internet search engine that offers search capabilities for end users free of charge and provides online advertising space on its own websites.
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Eric Schmidt / Official Google Blog:
We've officially acquired DoubleClick — I'm pleased to share the news that we completed our acquisition of DoubleClick today. Although it's been nearly a year since we announced our intention to acquire DoubleClick last April, we are no less excited today about the benefits that the combination …
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
EU approves Google's DoubleClick acquisition; Here comes the display ad ripples — Updated below: European regulators on Tuesday approved Google's purchase of DoubleClick setting up the search giant's big splash in the display advertising market. — According to the EU's competition committee …
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Searchme: A New Visual Search Engine — [Updated with correct funding of $31 million and note that Google has a similar effort in its labs.] — Today, Sequoia Capital, which has been a key investor of search giant Google (GOOG), as well as Yahoo, will unveil its latest investment in search, a visual search engine called: Searchme.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:SearchMe Launches New Search Engine With Heavy Backing From Sequoia
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Six Apart Takes Aim At Wordpress Users; Wordpress Pissed — Anil Dash, Six Apart's Chief Evangelist, took aim at Wordpress users in a blog post today. Instead of upgrading to the new version of Wordpress, he says, consider moving over to their platform. — Now, it's generally fair game …
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Anil Dash / Movable Type:
A WordPress 2.5 Upgrade Guide — As you might know, WordPress 2.5 is about to be released, and we wanted to encourage WordPress users to upgrade. To Movable Type. — The truth is, there are lots of good blogging tools out there, and they're all good at different things.
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Brad Stone / New York Times:
Testing Over, Hulu.com to Open Its TV and Film Offerings This Week — SAN FRANCISCO — Hulu.com, the long-gestating Internet joint venture between NBC Universal and Fox, emerges from limited testing on Wednesday to make its catalog of TV shows and video clips available to anyone on the Web.
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Medialoper, Seeking Alpha, Contentinople, Mashable!, Clickety Clack, paidContent.org and Lost Remote
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Richard Defendorf / CNET News.com:
Google's drop in paid clicks: Part of the grand plan — After ComScore reported a recent decline in Google's paid clicks, the Net ratings service followed up, noting evidence that the drop was due to “Google's own quality initiatives that result in a reduction in the number of paid listings and …
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IDG News Service
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The “Nuclear Disaster” At SXSW Was Nothing More Than A Witch Burning — Based on the Twitter messages and blog posts I saw yesterday emerge real time from the SXSW conference, it sounded like Sarah Lacy's interview of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was, truly, a career ending, never seen before train wreck of epic proportions.
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Profy.Com, Geek Gestalt, Master of 500 Hats, broadstuff, Chip Griffin, MYBLOG by Ouriel and 901am
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent.org:
CBSSports.com Opens March Madness On Demand Video For Easy Access From Any Site — Seeking more online viewers for games and ads, CBSSports.com and the NCAA are announcing a “developer platform” for March Madness on Demand. It's not the kind of developer concept where people are encouraged to build apps …
Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times:
Hostility Has Its Rewards — MENLO PARK, Calif. — “It's crazy to say you will only grow through innovation,” Larry Ellison, the hard-charging chief executive of Oracle, was telling me last week. “It's bizarre that there's a stigma to buying something rather than building it yourself.”
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The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Drop It Like It's DropBox — Personal file storage, sharing and syncing is one of those categories of technology problems that, despite all efforts, no one ever seems to get right. Most of the current offerings, even the better ones, leave something to be desired.
Wall Street Journal:
How to Tap IT's Hidden Potential — Too often, there's a wall between a company's information-technology department and everything else. That wall has to go. — Some of the biggest names in the business world have used information technology to their competitive advantage: Merrill Lynch …
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Parallax View
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
AOL “Disintegrating”; Also, Why Curt Viebranz Was Fired* — *UPDATE: AOL spokesperson Tricia Primrose strongly denies several assertions in this post. Specifically, she argues that AOL's business is strong and that Curt Viebranz's dismissal had nothing to do with his reluctance to embrace certain revenue targets.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
20% Of Valley Startups Can't Get To Their Cash — The credit crisis is in full swing through most of the U.S. economy, but it has barely touched venture-fueled Silicon Valley. Until recently, that is. Up to 20% of venture backed startups may have been convinced by their financial advisors …
Jeff Smykil / Infinite Loop:
Mac Pro, MacBook Air get software updates — While we slept last night, Apple released two updates for two of their less common hardware offerings: the MacBook Air and select Mac Pros. They aren't terribly exciting and, as always, the descriptions are fairly vague.
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PC World, AppleInsider, MacUser, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Macsimum News and MacDailyNews
Louise Story / Bits:
Where Every Ad Knows Your Name — Just how personal can advertising from the Web giants get? That's a question you may be wondering after reading my article in Monday's Times and the related blog post. With big Internet companies, which already have a lot of data about users …
