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Alec Saunders SquawkBox:
Interview with JAJAH's Daniel Mattes on the eve of their deal with Yahoo! — Thought JAJAH was old news? Think again. Having attracted a whopping 10 million users in the last two years, up from 2 million just last year, they're now expanding their business in dramatically new directions with the launch of JAJAH Managed Services.
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Peter Svensson / Associated Press:
Yahoo to outsource Messenger phone calls to Jajah — NEW YORK - Yahoo Inc. is outsourcing the Internet telephone functions of its instant messaging program to the startup Jajah. — Jajah will connect the calls to and from users of Yahoo Messenger and handle billing and customer care, the startup said Tuesday.
Michael Learmonth / Silicon Alley Insider:
Cox Buys Ad Network Adify For $300M — Heard through the electronic grapevine and haven't been able to confirm: Cox Enterprises, the privately-held parent of Cox Newspapers and Cox Communications, is buying Adify, one of few remaining online ad networks of significant scale. Supposed Purchase price: $300 million.
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Washington Post, paidContent.org, TechCrunch, Valleywag, VentureBeat, RyanSpoon.com, Mashable! and Beet.TV
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Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Online Ad Network Adify Sold To Cox For $300 Million Plus Earnout — Adify, the white-label online ad network, has been sold to an unlikely buyer, Cox [Communications] Enterprises, for about $300 million and earn out, we have learned and confirmed from sources.
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Pro Blogging News, alarm:clock, The Blog Herald, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, CNET News.com and WebProNews
Anick Jesdanun / Associated Press:Media co. Cox eyes online ad growth, buys startup for $300M
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John Leyden / The Register:
Spyware targets frustrated GTA IV gamers — Drive-by spam attacks blight carjack game launch — Gamers desperate to get their mitts on Grand Theft Auto IV are being targeted in an opportunistic spyware scam. Spam emails offer prospective marks free entry to a draw offering a PlayStation 3 loaded …
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Matt Richtel / New York Times:
For Gamers, the Craving Won't Quit — SAN FRANCISCO — The troubled economy and rising prices for food and gas won't keep fast-twitch video gamers from splurging on their latest must-have diversion, Grand Theft Auto IV. — During the next two weeks, some five million couch jockeys …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Blodget Says Facebook Is Only Worth $9 Billion, Hypothetically Speaking — Putting a value on private companies is hard enough for insiders and venture capitalists who have full access to the company's financial statements. When outsiders try to do it, even well-informed ones, it is nothing more than a guessing game.
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Dan Farber / Outside the Lines:Silicon Alley Insider creates start-up valuation index
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Video: OQO hacked to run Leopard, now world's smallest Mac — While greeted with heaps of initial skepticism, forum jockeys over at OQO Talk now seem convinced that a junior member by the name of TRF has successfully hacked the OQO to run OS X Leopard. Adding a video filmed by Mr. Blurry Cam didn't hurt the cause.
Michelle Labrosse / New York Times:
When Your Laptop's Flight Is More Interesting Than Yours — I RUN my global project management business virtually. So my backpack contains everything I need for work: my iPhone, G.P.S. locator, emergency snacks and, of course, my laptop, my link to the world and my business.
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Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
Pixar Backdating Scandal Reverberates At Google (GOOG) — Remember the big backdating scandal of, um, 2005 and 2006? It hasn't gone away. And it's touching companies that have so far remained unscathed: Today Google disclosed that board member Ann Mather is about to face civil charges …
BBC:
Drowning in data — There is no doubt that video is big on the net. But is it getting too big? — Ask AT&T and it will answer - yes. — Speaking in London in late April, Jim Cicconi, AT&T's vide president of legal affairs, said the burgeoning amount of video would consume all the net's bandwidth in two years.
Andy Space / 9 to 5 Mac:
Rogers Telecom confirms it will offer iPhone in Canada — Apple will introduce the iPhone in Canada later this year, working with Rogers Telecom to bring the device to the country. — This news has been confirmed this morning in a short statement from the Canadian network operator.
Tom Foremski / IMHO:
Where's the next new thing in Silicon Valley? — Excellent article by Jeff Nolan, an ex-VC, writing in SandHill.com on venture capital investments and locating the next big thing. — Incrementalism and “The New New Thing” - With all the venture capital moving around in the Silicon Valley, where is the real innovation?
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
MySpace wins suit against ‘spam king’ — Sanford Wallace, the so-called spam king, has often been accused of sending annoying messages that are typically ignored by the recipient. Perhaps he considered a series of court orders as something he could blow off. — If he did he was wrong.
