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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 …
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 …
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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 …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:McMaster's Final Humiliation: Federal Smack Down (Restraining Order Below)
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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:
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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Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:Sky High: Russian Investment Group Offers As Much As $350 Million To Facebook
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Jeremy Muncy / WebProNews:
Do You know how #FollowFriday started? — Today is Friday, the most famed day of the week. Why you ask? It's the end of the workweek and the beginning of the weekend (for some). But, for the Twitterverse, it's a day where you could see your follower count substantially climb as a result …
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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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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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Seth Weintraub / Computerworld Blogs:
Cartier drops lawsuit against Apple over iPhone app — What was to be the battle of the brands never even got started. Hours after filing suit against Apple today for allowing a third party iPhone developer to post an application depicting a Cartier watch image in the app, Cartier International dropped the suit.
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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John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
URL for iTunes Video Downloads on the iPhone — It's 4:00 PM on the Friday before a long weekend, so I'll make this short. This URL will take you to the skeleton version of Apple's (AAPL) rumored iPhone iTunes Video store. It appears to work in iPhone 2.2 and the 3.0 beta.
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