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Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
SlideShare Secures $3M for Embeddable Presentations — Sometimes the simplest ideas are best. While a number of startups are working to bring the whole process of creating presentations online, SlideShare recognizes that many people are mostly satisfied with PowerPoint or Keynote.
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Dave McClure / Master of 500 Hats:SlideShare Kicks Ass, Picks Up $3M From Venrock & Friends (+ me!)
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Vonage Holdings Corp. Reports First Quarter 2008 Results — Vonage Holdings Corp. (NYSE: VG - News), a leading provider of broadband telephone service, today announced results for the quarter ended March 31, 2008. — Revenue for the first quarter 2008 grew to a record $225 million …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Now Vonage Will Also Sell Broadband — After a really rough 2007, Vonage (VG), the independent voice over IP service provider seems to be having a better 2008. This morning , the company reported its first quarter 2008 financial results, and well, things are not bad. Not spectacular, but not bad either.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Vonage narrows losses; Inks deal with Covad — Vonage is still losing money, but the bottom line is moving in the right direction. The company also signed a deal with Covad to offer DSL service. — The VOIP provider on Thursday reported a first quarter net loss of $9 million …
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Chris Williams / The Register:
Murdoch sees MySpace miss targets — MySpace has missed its financial targets, showing that social networking is struggling to earn its keep - even as part of Rupert Murdoch's globe-spanning media empire. — News Corp said yesterday that the site will fall short of its annual revenue target of $1bn by 10 per cent.
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Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
Breaking: Facebook Profile Redesign - Detailed Specs & First Impressions — As most people in the Facebook developer community are aware, the upcoming Facebook profile redesign is the biggest and most far-reaching project at the company so far this year. Its impact on users and developers …
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Brandon Hill / DailyTech:
Gates: Vista is Moving at a “Rapid Sales Rate” — Gates says that Microsoft has sold over 140 million copies of Vista worldwide since its launch. — Windows Vista seems to be everyone's favorite whipping boy these days. PC World labeled it the #1 Biggest Tech Disappointment of 2007 and mini …
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Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
NBC Streaming Full Episodes of 30 Rock and the Office to iPhones (for Free, No Ads!) — Even though there's no love lost between NBC and iTunes, that doesn't mean NBC doesn't love you! At least if you've got an iPhone or iPod touch. They're streaming full episodes of 30 Rock and The Office to iPhones …
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Michael Learmonth / Silicon Alley Insider:NBC: Free, Full Episodes Of ‘The Office’ And ‘30 Rock’ For iPhones
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Ideas Are Everywhere... So Why Do We Limit Them? — from the gladwell-missing-the-point dept — Malcolm Gladwell is a truly fantastic writer. However, sometimes he gets so interested in making a story sound good that he misses the real point. His latest piece for the New Yorker starts …
John Ribeiro / IDG News Service:
Yahoo India Search Results Combine Text, Video, and Images — Yahoo has chosen India for the beta test of its new search concept that aggregates text, images, and video results on a single results page. — The Glue Pages Beta currently works for select search terms across select categories such as health …
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Nikhil Pahwa / paidContent.org:Yahoo Testing Search Mash-Up Glue Page In India
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Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
TorrentSpy to appeal whopper legal judgment — TorrentSpy intends to appeal a court decision that requires the now-defunct search engine to pay $111 million in damages to the six largest film studios, according to the company's attorney. — Ira Rothken has defended TorrentSpy since 2006 …
Danny Mendez / Download Squad:
Web-based Vi text editor hits the web: text-edit from anywhere! — That popular Unix and Linux text editor known as Vi is now the proud brother of an online clone that should run in most javascript enabled browsers. It's called jsvi, and now you can write your own programs and HTML code from anywhere!
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Tony Smith / The Register:
Creative to free Audigy Windows Vista compatibility app — Creative has told buyers of its ALchemy for Audigy sound software that they'll get their money back following its decision to release the next version of the app free of charge. — In an email sent out to customers yesterday …
Adobe:
Security Updates available for Adobe Reader and Acrobat 7 and 8 — Vulnerability identifier: APSB08-13 — CVE number: CVE-2008-0667, CVE-2007-5666, CVE-2007-5659, CVE-2007-5663, CVE-2008-0726, CVE-2008-0655, CVE-2008-2042, CVE-2007-4768 — Affected software versions …
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Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
EA To Use Controversial Internet-Required DRM On New Games — from the pissing-off-your-customers dept — SteveD writes “PC Gamers are in an uproar over a new copy projection system announced by Electronic Arts for use on their upcoming titles. The PC-port of the successful Xbox title Mass Effect …
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Michell Bak / Unofficial Sony Ericsson Blog:
First LIVE Photos Of Paris — Here they are people - all thanks to mhg2000 over at My-Symbian! It looks fantastic, doesn't it?
