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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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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
EU approves Google's DoubleClick acquisition; Here comes the display ad ripples — 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 …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:The EU Approves Google's DoubleClick Deal. Yahoo Needs To Pick a Partner Fast.
Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News.com:With Europe's OK, Google closes DoubleClick acquisition
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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 — Mountain View based SearchMe has been around since 2005 and has raised $31 million from Sequoia, DAG Ventures and Lehman Brothers. But until last weekend when I met founders Randy Adams and John Holland I knew next to nothing about them.
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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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James Lewin / Podcasting News:
Hulu Launches Free Internet Television Service — Internet video site Hulu launches today, offering full-length episodes of more than 250 TV series, including Lost and The Simpsons, along with older hits like Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In addition, Hulu will feature content …
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
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:20% Of Valley Startups Can't Get To Their Cash
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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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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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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 …
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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Jeff Smykil / Infinite Loop:
MacPro, Mac Book 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, Apple Gazette, MacDailyNews and The Unofficial Apple Weblog
Travis Hudson / Today @ PC World:
Sprint Phone to Get Speed Boost with EVDO Rev. A - It's About Time — Adoption of faster wireless speeds via the wireless specification EVDO Rev. A has been slow as molasses. But finally there is good news for Sprint customers who will be the first U.S. wireless customers …
Justin Berka / Infinite Loop:
Lionsgate adding iTunes Digital Copy to some DVDs — Although it certainly wasn't one of the major Macworld announcements, the addition of an iTunes Digital Copy to Fox DVDs was a big move into the world of (useful) DVD extras. Now, a few months later, another studio is getting on board the Digital Copy train.
