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Tom Neumayr / Apple:
iTunes Store Tops Over Five Billion Songs Sold — Apple Renting & Selling Over 50,000 Movies Per Day — Apple® today announced that music fans have purchased and downloaded over five billion songs from the iTunes® Store (www.itunes.com). iTunes is the number one music retailer …
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Jonathan Skillings / CNET News.com:
Apple's iTunes hits 5 billion mark — The path to world domination is paved in round numbers, especially big ones like this: 5 billion. — That's the number of songs that have been purchased and downloaded from the iTunes Store, Apple said Thursday. (Actually, for the record, the press release says “over 5 billion.")
Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Yahoo Mail hopes to lure users with ‘ymail.com’ — Yahoo Mail, the top provider of Web-based e-mail, is letting users sign up with the ymail.com and rocketmail.com domains in an attempt to attract new users and keep existing ones loyal. — The move is geared to help people find a better e-mail address …
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Stan Schroeder / Mashable!:
Ymail And Rocketmail? Sorry, Yahoo, But That's Not Enough to Thwart Gmail — At 12 PDT today Yahoo will for the first time start offering free e-mail accounts under two new domains: ymail and rocketmail. Both ymail.com and rocketmail.com already lead to the Yahoo Mail landing page …
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Who's Next to Go at Yahoo as Reorg Looms? — My special BoomTown Yahoo tip inbox is is filling up fast this week from Yahoo employees-who, by the way, seem to like to use Gmail as their secret one-all buzzing about the next shoe to drop. — That clodhopper would be, of course …
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Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Facebook in France: Bonne chance — Bienvenue sur Skyrock.com, the French answer to MySpace—and Facebook's big competitor over there. — (Credit: Skyrock) — There's good news for Facebook in France. According to new numbers released Thursday by ComScore, the social network grew …
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Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:Friendster's growth in Asia could make it the top social network …
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Christina Holsberry / Facebook Blog:
Welcome to Facebook, homeschoolers — Back in September 2006, we decided to open up Facebook to everyone. Well, almost everyone. — We realized Facebook would be most useful if more people were allowed to join, but we also weren't willing to compromise the security of the site by removing …
Jesse Stay / Stay N\' Alive:
Developers Bailing on Twitter … I've been following various development mailing lists lately, and I'm seeing a trend of developers starting to bail on Twitter. This is a scary thought, because when the developers bail, so will the users. It all started with a conversation …
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Zero Day Initiative / DVLabs:
Mozilla Firefox 3.0 Vulnerability — A number of people who monitor our Zero Day Initiative's Upcoming Advisories page noticed yesterday that we reported a vulnerability to Mozilla (ZDI-CAN-349). Taking into account the coincidental timing of the Firefox 3. release, many are asking us …
Kevin Fitchard / Telecom News from TELEPHONY Magazine:
NXTcomm08: Sprint to turn up Baltimore WiMAX network in September — Delayed throughout the year, 4G network nears readiness for launch, CEO says — LAS VEGAS—Sprint will commercially launch its first WiMAX market in September in Baltimore and turn up service in its two other trial markets …
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Associated Press:
China denies Microsoft monopoly reports — BEIJING - China's anti-piracy bureau on Thursday denied reports it is investigating possible monopoly behavior of large software companies including Microsoft Corp. — China's State Intellectual Property Office said in a notice that it was not conducting …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Tracking Former Yahoo Execs - Where Are They Now? — Out of pure curiosity we started tracking Yahoo execs who've left the company since January 2007. It's hard to believe, but at least fifty of them have bailed out in the last year and a half. — Some went to work for Google. Others went to startups.
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Walter S. Mossberg / Personal Technology:
Internet-a-Gogo: Airlines to Offer In-Flight Access — Attention, laptop-toting U.S. airline passengers! You are either about to become much more productive and happy, or to lose one of your last refuges from the digital deluge that afflicts your life. — Beginning this summer …
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Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
Citi: YouTube Can Generate $500M In 2009 (GOOG) — Either Google (GOOG) is figuring out how turn YouTube from money pit into a real business, or it's figured out how to convince everyone else that it's doing so: Estimates for the channel's revenue potential continue to climb.
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Microsoft does 180, will continue to support MSN Music DRM — Microsoft has reversed its decision to pull the plug on MSN Music's authorization servers, according to an e-mail sent out to customers this afternoon. Customers who bought music from the now-defunct service will now be able …
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Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Is Amazon Getting Ready To Take On PayPal? — from the and-would-it-be-effective? dept — Plenty of other companies have tried to take on PayPal and discovered that it was a lot harder than it looked. Even though there are a lot of folks dissatisfied with PayPal, most attempts to compete with it have fallen flat.
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Chris Morrison / VentureBeat:
Semantic search startup TextDigger unearths a business model, and some venture funding — TextDigger, a semantic search startup that launched early last year at DEMO, has been much quieter in the interim than other companies in the space like Hakia, Powerset and Radar Networks / Twine.
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