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Wall Street Journal:
J.P. Morgan Rescues Bear Stearns — U.S. Pushed Deal — To Avert Crisis; — A Fire-Sale Price — Bear Stearns Cos. reached an agreement to sell itself to J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., as worries grew that failing to find a buyer for the beleaguered investment bank could cause the crisis of confidence gripping Wall Street to worsen.
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JPMorgan Acts to Buy Ailing Bear Stearns at Huge Discount — Bear Stearns, pushed to the brink of bankruptcy by what amounted to a run on the bank, agreed late Sunday to sell itself to JPMorgan Chase for a mere $2 a share, narrowly averting a collapse that threatened to cascade through the financial system.
Dan Farber / Outside the Lines:
Flickr Video beta due in April — In early February, in the midst of Microsoft's surprise bid to acquire Yahoo, I wrote about Yahoo's Flickr Video coming soon. It's been a long time coming. I first asked Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake about a Flickr video service in December 2005.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Buzz: Yahoo Reveals Stats From The First Two Weeks — Yahoo Buzz, a Digg-like service that launched on February 25, is now nearly three weeks old. We asked Yahoo to share some of the data from those first two weeks. — The big benefit for publishers is that top Buzz stories …
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Mercury News:
Whitman joins Fiorina on McCain presidential campaign trail — Retiring eBay Chief Executive Meg Whitman is joining the presidential campaign of John McCain as a national co-chair. Whitman, who steps down from her eBay job at the end of the month, had been a major fundraiser for Mitt Romney …
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Paul Krill / InfoWorld:
Eclipse to stress component, runtime efforts — San Francisco - The Eclipse Foundation will branch out in the realm of component-oriented software development on Monday and also unveil an umbrella project unifying several runtime initiatives. — The efforts will be featured …
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Tom Krazit / One More Thing:
Microsoft to license Adobe's Flash Lite — Even though it has plans to release a competing technology, Microsoft has agreed to license Adobe's Flash Lite technology for its Windows Mobile operating system and browser. — The two companies are expected to announce Monday that Microsoft …
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New Scientist:
Physicists slam publishers over Wikipedia ban — Scientists who want to describe their work on Wikipedia should not be forced to give up the kudos of a respected journal. So says a group of physicists who are going head-to-head with a publisher because it will not allow them to post parts …
Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
Facebook wants to own communication with your friends — While Facebook is a multi-faceted service that could grow in any number of directions, Facebook's recent cues indicate that first and foremost on its mind right now is establishing itself as a communication platform.
Paul Miller / Engadget:
WiMAX could interfere with satellite communications? — Yeah, all those sticky sweet stories about WiMAX actually happening this decade or possibly showing up in a device or two were really getting on our nerves. Now it seems the “little wireless standard that couldn't” …
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Steve Gillmor / NewsGang:
As I was saying — On The Gang this Friday, Dan Farber asked me what I was doing in this new gig - a column or a blog? No difference, I replied. Just like there's no difference between mainstream and bloggospherian journalism and commentary. This is my opinion, and in the self-contained universe …
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Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / HipMojo.com:
Where's the YouTube Fund? — Kleiner Perkins has launched the iFund to back iPhone-based projects; Accel, Meritech, Founders' Fund and Greylock have the fbFund to back Facebook-based projects. — I am a bit surprised that no one has a YouTube fund. If the premise is that the world we live …
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Google Open Source Blog:
“Look! Actual Code!” — In one Dilbert cartoon, Dogbert confronts a long-winded technology “guru” by showing him some actual code, which blows him away. It's funny because it's true: some long, abstract discussions can turn into short, concrete ones when you can point to code.
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