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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
More Bloggers Raising Money. Here Come The Politics. And Here Comes My Rant. — More blogs are raising venture capital, we're hearing from people they've pitched. Newcomer Silicon Alley Insider is looking for a $3 - $5 million round, if reports are correct.
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Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Company Note: Wrong on All Counts — Mike, Despite your apparent cold war with us, all it would have taken you to get the facts is drop me an e-mail. Instead, you got it wrong on all counts:: TechCrunch reports that our company is looking to raise $2 million to $3 million and that we are also considering selling the company.
Robert Hamilton / Official Google Mobile Blog:
Fast is better than slow — A few weeks ago, we launched a plug-in for Symbian devices that put a Google search shortcut onto the phone's home screen. This shortcut reduces the time it takes for you to get answers from Google by eliminating the initial search steps (e.g. finding the browser application …
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TechCrunch, eWeek, Google Operating System, MobileCrunch, MobHappy, jkOnTheRun, Pocket PC Thoughts.com and the::unwired
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Eric Auchard / Reuters:
Google sees surge in Web use on hot mobile phones — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc has seen an acceleration of Internet activity among mobile phone users in recent months since the company has introduced faster Web services on selected phone models, fueling confidence the mobile Internet era …
comScore:
comScore Releases February 2008 U.S. Search Engine Rankings — comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the search marketplace. February 2008 saw Americans conduct nearly 10 billion core searches …
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Chris Foresman / Ars Technica:
Apple may bundle unlimited iTunes with iPods — A report by the Financial Times (registration required) cites unnamed executives who say that Apple is in talks with record labels to offer access to the entire iTunes music library for a lump sum price. The fee would be added as a premium option …
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Naomi Gleit / Facebook Blog:
More Privacy Options — Today, we are introducing privacy changes that work towards our goal of giving you the control you need in order to share information comfortably on Facebook. There are two ways we've changed things: a standardized privacy interface across the site, and new privacy options available through this interface.
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Chris Soghoian / CNET News.com:Flaws emerge in Facebook's new privacy controls
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Official Google Blog:
Opening Google Docs to users and developers via Gadgets and Visualization API — Whenever we're asked “how do people use Google spreadsheets?”, we always struggle with where to start. It's not that we can't think of examples, it's just that the examples are all so different, so unique.
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Google Code Blog, Web Worker Daily, Mashable!, Digital Trends, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim and WebGuild
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Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:Google Spreadsheets Adds Gadgets, a Directory of Features
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Google Blogoscoped, CNET News.com, Google Watch, eWeek, Lifehacker, TGDaily.com, Download Squad and Ars Technica
Port 25:
Supernova — I'm writing this from EclipseCon in Santa Clara, California, where I'm going to announce the beginning of Microsoft's collaborative work with the Eclipse Foundation. — This started about a year ago when I met Mike Milinkovich at an open source event (the Open Source Software Think Tank 2007) …
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Fred / A VC:
Thoughts On FriendFeed — I know I am late to this discussion and that many bloggers have already weighed in on this topic already. — Back a few months ago, the New York Times covered FriendFeed and after reading the story I set up my FriendFeed. I have always been a fan of aggregation and life streaming.
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eMarketer:
Online Advertisers To Spend Through Turbulence — The shift online will continue in 2008. — eMarketer predicts that, despite the economic rough patch, US online advertising will continue to grow through 2008. Online ad spending will rise by 23%. — Yet even that reduced rate of growth …
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HipMojo.com, paidContent.org, Valleywag, Silicon Alley Insider, Mashable!, 901am, Todd Watson, Darren Herman and Lost Remote
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Yahoo turns to radio ads to lure Google Web searchers — Updated 10 a.m. PDT with quotes from radio ad. — Yahoo is running radio ads in the San Francisco Bay Area and several other markets in an effort to get more people to use its search engine instead of Google's.
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Dell's Latitude XT2 plans revealed — That's Dell's product rendering for its second generation Latitude XT convertible tablet. Expected in November 2008, the XT2 will ship with Intel's latest Montevina, er “Centrino 2” architecture in your choice of ULV or LV CPUs, new UMA graphics supporting Vista Aero …
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
Verizon Wireless opens its network — Verizon Wireless unveiled specifications for its new open wireless program Wednesday as part of a strategy that could change the future of the wireless market. But the road ahead will likely be a long and slow one. — Traditionally, cell phone operators …
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Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
Mahalo Launches Reviews and Ratings; CEO Shares Company Stats — Today at the Search Engine Strategies conference in NYC, Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis is launching a new feature: product/service reviews and ratings. I sat down with Jason yesterday to discuss the new feature and here are my notes.
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Google about to drop the other Enterprise shoe on Microsoft? — I'm hearing about a few things that Google is planning to do to newly compete with Microsoft's enterprise offerings. — Several people have told me about an offline version of Gmail, coming soon.
