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Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
Digg's Miserable Business — BusinessWeek got ahold of social news site Digg's financials. — For a site that gets as much traffic as Digg.com does — 22.6 million monthly uniques, according to Quantcast — the numbers are gruesome: — Last year the company lost $2.8 million on $4.8 million of revenue
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Digg's Sorry Revenue Stream, And Rumors Of An Experimental Ad Product — So Business Week gets their hands on Digg's financials and reports that the company had 2007 revenues of $4.8 million and losses of $2.8 million. The first three quarters of 2008 Digg had revenues of $6.4 million and losses of $4 million.
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Huffington Post Blasted For Stealing Content — The Huffington Post's news aggregation business drives enormous traffic to the third-party sites its editors link to (including, occasionally, this one). The Huffington Post also often excerpts liberally from third-party sites' stories and uses …
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Ryan Singel / Epicenter:
The Huffington Post Slammed for Content Theft — The Huffington Post, a venture-capital-backed new media site that mixes links to other sites content with hundreds of celebrity and volunteer blogger posts, is being accused of slimy business practices by a handful of smaller publications …
Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
The Wide (and Weird) World of Two-Screen Laptops — Lenovo's upcoming ThinkPad W700 mobile workstations are loaded with high-end features, including Intel Core 2 Quad CPUs and Nvidia Quadro Express graphics, RAID storage, and built-in Wacom pen tablets. But one feature is as close …
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comScore Releases November 2008 U.S. Search Engine Rankings — comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. In November 2008, Americans conducted 12.3 billion core searches …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Facebook Stares Down Labels Over Project Playlist Takedown Demand — Earlier this afternoon MySpace scrubbed all traces of Project Playlist music widgets from the site, and users are unable to embed any further playlists. The scrub was the result of infringement notices from the major labels …
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David Kravets / Threat Level:
No ISP Filtering Under New RIAA Copyright Strategy — The Recording Industry Association of America on Friday announced a new strategy in its quest to curtail online copyright infringement — a plan that for now requires no filtering from internet service providers.
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Saul Hansell / Bits:
What Xbox Wants to Be When It Grows Up — (Credit: David Paul Morris/Getty Images) — After more than four years running Microsoft's game studio, Shane Kim was given a new assignment this fall, running strategy and business development for the unit that makes the Xbox game console.
Jake Coyle / Associated Press:
On the Net: Hulu is Web site of the year — In the Wild West that is online video, Hulu.com has proven to be a trailblazing answer to how professional content can thrive on the Web. — It's this year's pick for Web site of the year. — “This is period of great experimentation in regard to media …
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent.org:
SEC Mandates Interactive Filing; Will Start Phasing In Next Year — The news is filled with stories of how much the Securities and Exchange commission has missed but, hey, maybe some of the atrocious examples of financial skulduggery could have been caught sooner if the commission had moved faster towards interactive filing.
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Why Do Undersea Cables Seem To Get Severed In Bunches? — There's just something about undersea internet cables that seem to have them get severed in groups. You may recall the various conspiracy theories that cropped up, at the beginning of the year, after four such cables were broken …
Zach Epstein / Boy Genius Report:
iPhone 3G goes on sale for two weeks only at Best Buy Mobile — One of our trusty Best Buy Mobile ninjas just hit us with some good news for all you last-minute holiday shoppers out there. Starting today (December 19) through Saturday January 3, the iPhone 3G will be available from Best Buy Mobile for the lowest price in the country.
Sean O'Malley / The Official Google Blog:
New search-by-style options for Google Image Search — Many of us use Google Image Search to find imagery of people, clip art for presentations, diagrams for reports, and of course symbols and patterns for artistic inspiration. Unfortunately, searching for the perfect image can be challenging …
