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eBay Inc. Buys Leading Payments and Classifieds Businesses, Streamlines Existing Organization To Improve Growth — SAN JOSE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—eBay Inc. (NASDAQ:EBAY - News) today announced two acquisitions that significantly extend the company's leadership position in online payments and classifieds.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
eBay doubles down on payments as it buys Bill Me Later; Lays off 1,000 — EBay on Monday revamped its corporate portfolio laying off 1,000 workers, or 10 percent of its workforce, and buying online payment company Bill Me Later as well as a Denmark classifieds company.
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Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:Meanwhile...eBay Spends $1.34 Billion On Bill Me Later, Danish Sites
Andy M. Zaky / Bullish Cross:
iPhone Sales Drastically Surpass Q4 Consensus, Apple Reaches 10 million iPhone Goal — By ANDY M. ZAKY & TURLEY MULLER (Dual Authorship) — Based on the tremendous efforts by members at Mac Observer's AFB to track IMEI iPhone numbers, we have determined that Apple has drastically surpassed …
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Apple iPhone 3Gs: 9,190,680 and counting — Here's bit of upbeat economic news to brighten a gloomy Monday. — On Aug. 1, a London-based investor who calls himself “Tommo_UK” posted a message on The Mac Observer's Apple Finance Board asking anyone who had bought an iPhone 3G to provide three pieces …
Arn / MacRumors:
iPhone 2.2 Hidden Features: Google Street View, Emoji, Auto-Correction Off — It seems that Apple is taking further care in hiding new iPhone features in their beta releases. The most recent firmware beta seeded to developers listed “compatibility testing” in its release notes as the only change.
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Kevin Michaluk / CrackBerry.com blogs:
Exclusive: First Look at the BlackBerry Application Center! — This weekend was HUGE for leaked info on the BlackBerry Storm (thanks BG!). But while all the latest Storm OS eye candy has been sweet to look at and filled in some gaps on how the device's OS will function (like copy and paste functionality) …
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Michael Bettiol / Boy Genius Report:
How To: Copy & Paste on the BlackBerry Storm — Thanks to the windfall of Storm documents obtained yesterday, the often asked question about how copy and paste works on the Storm can finally be answered. All you'll need to do is put one finger at the beginning, and another finger at the end of the area you want to copy.
John Herrman / Gizmodo:Leaked Screens Show BlackBerry's Own App Store
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Miguel Helft / Bits:
Ask.com Revamps Search Engine — Ask.com has a record of coming up with interesting innovations that are often copied by others in the Internet search business. Yet those innovations have done little to help the company expand its share of the search audience.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:Semantic Search Engine Hakia Now Says It Can Filter Results By How Credible They Are
Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:Ask.com, now with more answers
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Netflix Trims Q3, Q4 Subscriber Guidance — Isn't the theory supposed to be that in time of economic stress, Americans hunker down at home and watch more videos? Well, maybe not. — Netflix (NFLX) this morning reduced its guidance on subscriber growth for both the third and fourth quarters …
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Paula Rooney / Open Source:
October promises to be hot month for Drupal, Mono, OpenOffice, Ubuntu — October is promising to be a big month for open source releases. — As the page on the calendar turned, Acquia launched of its commercially supported version of the popular Drupal open source social publishing system.
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Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:First look: latest Fedora and Ubuntu betas really shine
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Gavin Clarke / The Register:Mono delivers Foundation-free open .NET alternative
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Fred / A VC:
Free Vs Paid — My friend Howard was visiting me a few weeks ago and he said to me “free is over, I am only investing in services that customers pay for”. He said “freemium is dead”. I reminded him that freemium is a paid model, but he wasn't buying it.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
We Have Completed $4.5 Million in New Funding — From time to time, I have shared with you the steps we're taking to build Giga Omni Media, the 27-month-old company behind this and the other publications that make up the GigaOM network. Today, I am thrilled to announce the start of our company's next phase.
Jason Hiner / Between the Lines:
The top five reasons why Windows Vista failed — On Friday, Microsoft gave computer makers a six-month extension for offering Windows XP on newly-shipped PCs. While this doesn't impact enterprise IT — because volume licensing agreements will allow IT to keep installing Windows XP for many years to come …
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Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Spreadsheets Redesign — One more step towards a consistent Google Docs interface: Google Spreadsheets has been redesigned and it now includes the same old-fashioned menu like the word processor and the presentation app. — “We were hoping to accomplish three things with it …
Ashlee Vance / Bits:
I.B.M. Releases Bluehouse for Workplace Collaboration — There's an arms race of sorts taking place among some of the world's largest technology companies as they scamper to control the next wave of office software. — Microsoft, Cisco Systems, Google, I.B.M. and others are selling applications under …
