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Cliff Edwards / Business Week:
What Disney-Hulu Means for Apple — The growing popularity of free video-viewing site Hulu could test the viability of Apple's pay-as-you-go iTunes download business — When Walt Disney (DIS) said it would start streaming shows via online video site Hulu, attention immediately turned …
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Why It Took More Than Four Months, and Millions of Dollars, to Get “Lost” on Hulu — What does it take to add a third player to a joint venture between two media conglomerates? More than 4 months of negotiations. Tens of millions of dollars helps, too. — That's what finally allowed Disney …
David Carnoy / CNET News:
70 percent of Kindle owners over 40? — Back in March, I did a post titled, “What's the average age of Kindle owners?” I cited a thread in Amazon.com's forums discussing Kindle owners' ages. — Well, I have a little follow-up on the whole issue. Apparently, someone went ahead …
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Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Quicken Online strikes back at upstarts with iPhone app — There's been a lot of buzz around personal finance websites like Mint and Wesabe, but finance software maker Intuit has joined the online fray too- and no, not just by sending threatening letters to Mint.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Want To Avoid Swine Flu? There's An App For That Too. — Yesterday, we talked a bit about how some companies are clearly trying to capitalize on the Swine Flu craze that is sweeping the nation. Naturally, someone just had to make an iPhone app. — And the winner is IntuApps …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Inside Facebook's Photo Factory — Ever since I got BlackBerry 8900 with a 3.2 Megapixel camera, I've been busy taking photos — randomly at times — and uploading them to my Facebook account to share with 2,000 or so of my closest friends. Apparently I'm just one of millions of people …
John Markoff / New York Times:
Iranians and Others Outwit Net Censors — The Iranian government, more than almost any other, censors what citizens can read online, using elaborate technology to block millions of Web sites offering news, commentary, videos, music and, until recently, Facebook and YouTube.
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Chips: March Sales Up 3.3% From Feb.; Q1 Off 29.9% — Worldwide chip sales in March rose 3.3% from February, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association. — The new data confirms what many chip makers have said in their Q1 earnings reports: that demand showed signs of stabilizing toward the end of the first quarter.
Roi Carthy / TechCrunch:
Fixya Adds Product Recommendations, And Why VC's Are Hot For It — Ask your average Israeli venture capitalist to name a few companies they're keeping tabs on and Fixya usually makes the short list—so do Benchmark's Conduit and Sequoia's Kenshoo. If you haven't heard of Fixya …
ReadWriteWeb:
First-Mover Advantage Is About Compound Interest, Not Market Share — “It is the greatest mathematical discovery of all time.” - Albert Einstein on compound interest. — There is a fallacy that startups need to be super-secretive and then, when they launch, move very fast to capture the market.
Michal Lev-Ram / Fortune Small Business:
Want the biggest iPod in the world? — Ask this small gadget shop, which specializes in going where Apple won't. — (Fortune Small Business) — Like many consumers, John Mayberry was looking to upgrade his iPod. The IT technician had 50,000 songs stored on his computer, but his 60-gigabyte iPod maxed out at 12,000 songs.
Matt McGee / Search Engine Land:
Google Giving Away 250,000 Google Profile Business Cards — Google has teamed up with iPrint.com to offer free Google Profile business cards to the first 10,000 people who claim them. Each person can get a set of 25 cards that shows the Google.com home page with his/her Google Profile URL underneath it in green.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Xobni Coming To The Blackberry (Leaked Pic) — It's been just one month since email startup Xobni got an investment from the Blackberry Partners Fund, which brought its total B round up to $10 million, and already it has a working prototype for an upcoming Blackberry app.
Dirk Smillie / Forbes:
AP's Curley Has Fightin' Words For Google — Associated Press Chief Tom Curley threatens a news blackout. Will Google flinch? — If Associated Press Chief Executive Tom Curley's remarks this week about Google reflect the tenor of the talks between the two, discussions can't be going well.
Paul Boutin / Gadgetwise:
President Obama's New Twitter Feed — Since the day Barack Obama took office as President, I've urged him to keep up his eager use of Twitter. The fast-growing micro-blogging site had helped drive his campaign, both as a fundraising tool and as proof that the candidate had a firm grasp of the new, participatory Internet.
Stuart Dredge / Music Ally:
Coldplay giving away free live album as MP3s — Coldplay has announced plans to give away a free nine-track live album, LeftRightLeftRightLeft, at every gig this year. That'll be in CD form, but the album will also be made available as a free download from the band's website for fans not attending the concerts.
Chris Hall / Pocket-lint.com:
PHOTOS: Acer Aspire One 751 11.6 netbook … Acer pulled the covers off their new line-up of notebooks, netbooks, nettops and AIOs in London yesterday which we detailed earlier in April. — Two new netbook models were on display, the Aspire One 751 and D250, the former taking a slight departure with some interesting design details.
Jack Loechner / MediaPost:
Online Ad Spending To Follow Video and Social Networking — According to a new report on the Global Online Media Landscape by The Nielsen Company Online, engagement by Internet users is deepening, in part a result of a shift toward video content and social networking as popular online subcategories.
Financial Times:
Pressure rises on T-Mobile UK — By Gerrit Wiesmann in Frankfurt and Andrew Parker in London — Deutsche Telekom is under pressure from its two main shareholders, the German government and Blackstone, the private equity group, to decide quickly whether to sell its ailing UK mobile telephone operations.
Arn / MacRumors:
Next iPhone to Easily Record, Edit and Share Movies? — Considering all the leaked evidence of video recording and editing in the iPhone 3.0 beta, it's not really a stretch to predict that the next iPhone will offer long-requested video features. Still, Businessweek's Peter Burrows confirms …
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Variety.com / The Cut Scene:
Sony's motion sensing controller for PS3 to be unveiled at E3 — Sony's much rumored motion sensing controller for the Playstation 3 is real and it will likely be unveiled at E3. — That's what I've been hearing from several sources, one of whom has seen the device and two of whom …
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Owen Thomas / Gawker:
GoDaddy Advises Against Buying a Domain Name from a Disappearing Island — If you want to buy a .tv domain name, Bob Parsons's GoDaddy registrar will sell it to you. But not without a tsk-tsk lecture about how the island of Tuvalu, which owns .tv, is sinking.
Lessig Blog:
update on Warner Music — As you may have read me tweet, the organization that hosted me for this talk: — Received a notice that Warner Music had objected to its being posted on copyright grounds. Apparently, YouTube's content-ID algorithm had found music in the video that they claimed ownership to.
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
New consumer confidence seen as boon to Apple — Bolstered by renewed optimism about the U.S. economy, consumers this spring are putting money aside to buy netbooks and Mac laptops, according to a report released Thursday by ChangeWave Research. — The ChangeWave survey of 3,231 high-end consumers …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
iPhone App Developers Threaten To Sue Apple Over Late Payments — We've reported in the past on how Apple has not only been late on payments to iPhone app developers, but has also neglected to pay some developers for their app sales at the store entirely. We thought that perhaps our post might call Apple's attention to the problem.
Eliot Van Buskirk / Epicenter:
LimeWire Chairman Assures Congress: Privacy Safeguards Are in Place — Peer-to-peer software company LimeWire is gently telling Congress to calm down, reassuring anxious lawmakers that the company's software prevents users from putting the nation's top secrets or their tax returns at risk …
Courtney Lowery / NewWest:
Judge Shuts Down NewWest.Net Twitter Feed from Yellowstone Club Trial — Federal Bankruptcy Judge Ralph B. Kirscher shut down the use of Twitter in a Missoula courtroom today during a trial that has pit the members of the ritzy Yellowstone Club against former owner Tim Blixseth and lender Credit Suisse.
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
The Robot Made Me Do It: Comparing Three New Cyborg Q&A Services — One part people, one part machine. Is that a formula for more effective decision making? A number of high-profile entrepreneurs believe it is, and they are starting companies based on the idea.
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