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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Deny This, Last.fm — A couple of months ago Erick Schonfeld wrote a post titled “Did Last.fm Just Hand Over User Listening Data To the RIAA?” based on a source that has proved to be very reliable in the past. All hell broke loose shortly thereafter. — Before posting Erick reached out to the RIAA …
Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
Facebook Announces Settlement of Legal Dispute with Another Former Zuckerberg Classmate — Facebook has just issued a Friday night press release announcing the settling of a trademark dispute with Think Computer Corporation, whose founder Aaron Greenspan created the houseSYSTEM student web portal …
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How Facebook, MySpace and YouTube Killed eBay — Editor's note: This is a guest post by Keith Rabois, vice president of strategy and business development for Slide, the social entertainment company. Prior to Slide, Keith was a VP at LinkedIn and an EVP at PayPal in charge of among other things …
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Steven Levy / Wired News:
Secret of Googlenomics: Data-Fueled Recipe Brews Profitability — In the midst of financial apocalypse, the gadflies and gurus of the global marketplace are gathered at the San Francisco Hilton for the annual meeting of the American Economics Association. The mood is similar to a seismologist convention in the wake of the Big One.
Greg Sterling / Screenwerk:
Should Facebook ‘Just Buy Yelp’? — Matt Greitzer of Avenue A pens a provocative column (How to Solve Local Search, Once And For All) in which he argues that Facebook should buy Yelp: … There's also this related piece from AdWeek on user behavior, advertising and social networks: Poll: Few Use Social Media to Guide Purchases:
Jim / craigslist blog:
Turning a Blind Eye — Noteable as this news cycle winds down has been the relative disinterest on the part of reporters and politicians in adult service ads featured in journalistic media, no matter how numerous or graphic they may be. — Here are 3 out of the tens of thousands of …
Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
AMD says Intel-only deal struck at Apple in 2005 — An Advanced Micro Devices executive claims that Intel and Apple cut a deal in 2005 that made Intel an exclusive supplier of processors to Apple, preventing AMD from gaining Apple business. — The claim, made in a phone interview with Tom McCoy …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Facebook's Valuation Heading North Again. Up To $10 Billion Now. — A few days ago, we reported that Facebook turned down an investment term sheet that placed their value at $8 billion. But it was apparently the board seat the investors wanted and not the valuation that was the hold up.
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Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
Copyright Meets a New Worthy Foe: The Real-Time Web — Copyright law wasn't written with today's content consumption in mind. The way online video copyright functions is based on a reading of the 10-year-old Digital Millennium Copyright Act that equates video hosting sites with Internet service providers.
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Los Angeles Times:
4 South Korean bloggers face click fraud charges — The four are accused inflating the number of hits on their postings to increase attention for their anti-government rants. — Reporting from Seoul — In its fight to tame an often lawless Internet, South Korea has added a new charge to its criminal ledger: click fraud.
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Will Park / IntoMobile:
Cartier sues Apple over trademark infringement — The iPhone has become a big target for legal-minded Americans looking to take a bite out of the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) pie. But, most of the iPhone lawsuits to date have been filed by ordinary citizens, not big-name corporations like Cartier.
Rose Hanson / Associated Press:
Parents turn to cellphones as high-tech rattles — COLUMBUS, Ohio — When Annamarie Saarinen needed to soothe her ailing daughter, she used a rattle — downloaded to her iPhone. — Jeff Hilimire uses a white noise application on his phone to make shushing noises for his infant daughter.
Wendy Davis / MediaPost:
Craigslist Gets Restraining Order Against A.G. — After weeks of bluster about Craigslist, South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster agreed today to a temporary order preventing him from bringing criminal charges against company executives. — “Until the court rules on the merits …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:McMaster's Final Humiliation: Federal Smack Down (Restraining Order Below)
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Jim Finkle / MediaFile:
YouTube can be dangerous place for porn seekers — YouTube is becoming a dangerous place to search for porn. — Anti-virus company PandaLabs reports on its research blog that hackers have riddled the site with links to malicious software. The scheme works like this …
Marcus Oscarsson / Times of London:
Pro-internet piracy party on course for EU seats — The Pirate Party, a single-issue Swedish group that campaigns to encourage internet copyright infringement, is on course to win several seats in the European parliament. — The pro-file-sharing party is Sweden's third biggest political group according …
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KwameJones's Open Salon Blog:
iPhone to get iTunes TV and Movies! — In a long awaited move (at least by me), it appears that Apple will begin to allow downloads of movies and tv shows through the iPhone. This revelation, (again at least to me) comes by way of an advertisement in the new ad supported version of the app Twitterfon released on 5/15/09.
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