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Microsoft:
Microsoft Launches Beta of New All-in-One Service for Consumers — Q&A: Group Product Manager Bryson Gordon discusses “Albany” — a new service to help consumers be more protected, productive and connected and to stay current with essential software and security updates.
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft readies ‘Albany’ subscription trial for consumers — Microsoft is set to start testing privately a consumer Software + Service bundle code-named “Albany,” an all-in-one bundle of Office Home and Student, Windows Live OneCare, Office Live Workspace and various Windows Live services.
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Comscore: The Google fallout — Google's first quarter earnings call didn't have much in the way of theatrics, but a serious brush back pitch was delivered to Comscore. What should we make of Google CEO Eric Schmidt essentially throwing Comscore under the bus?
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Tech Check with Jim Goldman, Los Angeles Times, Digital Daily, Seeking Alpha and IP Democracy
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Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News.com:
Google shares capture largest one-day gain — Update at 1:15 p.m. PDT April 18: Google ends trading day up 20 percent, capturing largest one-day gain — Update at 10 a.m. PDT April 18: Google's gains have now reached 21 percent. — Google's shares closed with a 20 percent gain Friday …
Andrew Lipsman / comScore Voices:Reconciling comScore's and Google's Paid Click Data
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paidContent.org, Bloomberg, Valleywag, InfoWorld, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, MarketingVOX, New York Times and Tech Trader Daily
Jonathan Richards / Times of London:
iPhone sellers braced for hit on cheap handsets — Mobile operators with exclusive contracts to sell Apple's iPhone are bracing themselves for significant losses on unsold stock as they clear the shelves to make way for a new, faster version expected this summer.
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Five Wrong Ways to Pitch RWW and One Great Way — Here at ReadWriteWeb we get piles and piles of pitches for coverage from companies all day long and they almost always come in by email. You'll notice that only a tiny percentage of those pitches result in write-ups here.
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Larry Dignan / Zero Day:
Apple should call PayPal's bluff — PayPal is in another stand-off with Apple over EV SSL (Extended Validation Secure Sockets Layer) certificates, but Steve Jobs & Co. may call the transaction service's bluff. — According to Ryan Naraine, PayPal is about to launch a whitepaper …
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Andrew Donoghue / CNET News.com:
AT&T: Internet to hit full capacity by 2010 — U.S. telecommunications giant AT&T has claimed that, without investment, the Internet's current network architecture will reach the limits of its capacity by 2010. — Speaking at a Westminster eForum on Web 2.0 this week in London, Jim Cicconi …
Jena McGregor / Business Week:
The World's Most Innovative Companies — Smart ideas for tough times: The 50 companies that make up our annual ranking nurture cultures that value creative people in good times and bad — Suddenly, innovation has a bull's-eye on its back. As the recession debate shifts from “what if” …
Tom Magrino / ZDNet:
Mayhem alert, ‘Grand Theft Auto IV’ ships — Say so long to those delay rumors. While word has yet to come on whether Take-Two will accede to Electronic Arts' $2 billion acquisition offer, one scenario that will not occur is analysts' speculated delay of Grand Theft Auto IV.
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Fred / A VC:
The Difference Between Wordpress and Facebook — Is about $14.8bn according to the publicly available information about the most recent financings of the two companies ($15bn for Facebook and $200mm for Automattic). — But consider this comscore chart of unique visitors over the past year.
louisgray.com:
Most Bloggers Don't Deserve Any Ad Revenue — It's routinely shocking to me that so many bloggers think they should try and make a profit from their Web site. — Urged on by the success of mega blog networks like TechCrunch and spurred forward by stories from ProBlogger …
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Mark Evans, The Last Podcast, WinExtra, mathewingram.com/work, Internet Marketing …, Webomatica, Capitol Valley, yardley.ca and David Risley
Tom Krazit / One More Thing:
Big Apple schools refuse Macs over Wi-Fi flaw — The New York City school system has refused to accept any more iMac shipments until Apple fixes a Wi-Fi flaw, according to a report. — MacNN is reporting that the city's Department of Education has instructed Dell Managed Services …
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The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs
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Michael Learmonth / Silicon Alley Insider:
AOL: Ramping Up Web Site For Young Women — Next up on AOL's Web launch slate: it looks like it's going to be a site for youngish women. MediaPost noticed a job listing on JournalismJobs.com for “a new women's lifestyle site” seeking an editor with “at least five years of editing experience …
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Jezebel
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Mark Walsh / MediaPost Publications:AOL Plans Site Geared Toward Younger Women
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paidContent.org
Martin LaMonica / CNET News.com:
After complaints, Apple tweaks Software Update for Safari — Following a storm of criticism, Apple has changed its Software Update software to mark a distinction between new programs, such as its Safari on Windows browser, and updates to existing ones. — Last month, Apple started …
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TechConsumer, Asa Dotzler, Infinite Loop, Computerworld, Compiler, The Mac Observer, CyberNet and Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim
Greg Billock / Official Google Video Blog:
Google Video gets a facelift — As part of our mission, we on the Google Video team want you to be able to search, browse and discover videos from across the web. More than a year ago, we described our renewed focus on organizing all the web's video. Today, in addition to expanding Google …
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The Next Web, Google Blogoscoped, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, WebProNews and Valleywag
Android Developers Blog:
Android Developers Have Risen to the Challenge — Posted by Azhar Hashem, Product Marketing Manager for Android, Google Developer Products Team on 17 April 2008 at 9:47 PM — I'm thrilled to share the news that developers from over 70 countries submitted 1,788 entries to the Android Developer Challenge!
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Secret Merger Talks Between Technorati And b5media Blow Up — Blog search engine Technorati was days away from merging with blog network b5media when the whole deal blew up earlier this week, according to a source familiar with the negotiations. — Technorati has been searching …
