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Mark Sweney / Guardian:
Google is named world's most powerful brand by Millward Brown research — Google has topped a list of the world's most powerful brands, with new research estimating its value to be $86bn (£43bn). — WPP-owned research company Millward Brown puts Google at number …
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Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Google tops Microsoft, Apple in brand power — It seems Google has solidified its dethroning of Microsoft in at least one regard: the global power of its brand. — For the third year in a row, the search giant whose very name has been transformed into a verb, grabbed the top spot in a list …
MG Siegler / ParisLemon:
Twitter FAIL Day 3: Communications Breakdown — Quite a few of you saw my post from last night about Twitter's failure. Quite a few of you have noticed that it's still going on. We're about to enter day 3 of Twitter FAIL and still aren't getting a whole lot from Twitter about it.
Jacqueline Marshall / About Skype:
Skype announces unlimited long-distance calls to over a third of the world's population — Luxembourg, 21st April, 2008 - Skype announced unlimited* calling today to over a third of the world's population with the launch of its new calling subscriptions. The new subscriptions signal …
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Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Web Metrics and Grains of Salt — Perhaps Internet metrics should come with a warning label: “handle with care.” — Stock in the measurement firm comScore slid in after-hours trading on Thursday after Google reported surprisingly strong first quarter earnings. Why the decline?
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Anil Dash / Six Apart News & Events:
At Your Service: The Next Evolution of Six Apart — Five years ago this week, we announced one of the biggest milestones in our company history, including the creation of TypePad and our transformation from two bloggers with a powerful platform to a company dedicated to bringing the power of blogging to the world.
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Forrester: Social networking will be biggest enterprise 2.0 priority by 2013; Smaller businesses reticent — Enterprise 2.0 will become a $4.6 billion industry by 2013 and social networking tools will garner the bulk of the money, according to a report by Forrester Research.
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Dan Nystedt / IDG News Service:
Asustek to Launch Eee PC With 10-inch Screen — Asustek plans to launch a new version of the Eee PC with a 10-inch screen, a top executive said Monday. — The company's CEO made the statement at the launch of the new Eee PC 900 with an 8.9-inch screen, in Taiwan. The original Eee PC 701 carries a 7-inch screen.
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Stephanie Clifford / New York Times:
A Web Shift in the Way Advertisers Seek Clicks — Tyler Townsend, a digital media manager who plans online advertising for travel clients at Ypartnership, an agency in Orlando, had $150,000 to spend on behalf of a Caribbean island's visitors bureau. And this client did not care about branding — it wanted action.
Uriel Maimon / Speaking of Security …:
Older and wiser — Today (the date I'm writing this entry) is my birthday. Birthdays are a time of quiet contemplation for me (and quiet desperation for my mother). As I think about the past year and the progress I've made (things are looking good for my long-term goal of spending …
Dan Goodin / The Register:
Microsoft: Finding flaws on our website is OK — Find out how to eradicate 99.7% of spam — ToorCon In a first for a major company, Microsoft has publicly pledged not to sue or press charges against ethical hackers who responsibly find security flaws in its online services.
Melissa J. Perenson / PC World:
First Look: New WD VelociRaptor Hard Drive Cruises Through Speed Tests — Western Digital's 10,000 rpm, 300GB high-performance hard drive chomps through the competition. — Western Digital picked an extremely appropriate name for its new 10,000 rpm (rotations per minute) hard drive.
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Elizabeth Jensen / New York Times:
NBC News to Help Teach Tools of Digital Reporting — Straying far afield from its core business of reporting the news, NBC News is getting into the education business. — Readers of media-related Web sites have been bombarded with ads promoting NBC News's partnership with the New York Film Academy.
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Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:
OpenID getting more usable, a tiny bit at a time — Webware has been covering the Web authentication standard OpenID since September 2006. It's a powerful alternative to traditional name-and-password Web access control, but it's so completely different from the sign-on methods that people …
Business Wire:
Blue Coat to Acquire Packeteer to Offer Comprehensive Solution for WAN Optimization — Acquisition Extends Leadership in WAN Optimization Market — SUNNYVALE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Blue Coat Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:BCSI - News), the leader in WAN Application Delivery and Secure Web Gateway …
