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Steve Rosenbush / Business Week:
Facebook's on the Block — The owners of the privately held social-networking site hope to fetch as much as $2 billion. And media giants like Viacom may make a good match — Facebook, the Web site where students around the world socialize and swap information, has put itself on the block, BusinessWeek Online has learned.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Facebook: Too Late For $750 Million? — Facebook, the college social networking site, and a phenom I wrote about for Business 2.0 is apparently on the block. Business Week reports that the company is looking to get close to $2 billion, and had passed on a $750 million offer.
Telis Demos / CNN:
The sleeping giant goes on the offensive — Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft is ready to take the offensive. — (FORTUNE Magazine) - When Microsoft (Research) went public in 1986, there was no 3-D videogaming, no enterprise software, and no Google (Research).
Randfish / SEOmoz | Daily SEO Blog:
SEOmoz's Web 2.0 Awards — I ask those of you for whom the phrase "Web 2.0" is an anethma to refrain from judgement while you read this post and browse the site we've created. Afterwards, when you've had time to process it, I invite you to comment with as much passion (for or against) as you like.
Nancy Gohring / InfoWorld:
Sue Google, not us, Torrentspy tells Hollywood — Torrentspy argues it can't be held liable for actions of visitors once they leave its Web site — The Motion (Overview, Articles, Company) Picture Association of America (MPAA) might just as well have sued Google (Profile, Products …
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tmcnet.com:
CastleCops and Sunbelt Software Announce Anti-Phishing Task Force; Companies Join Forces to Give the Public a Resource to Report and Stop Phishing Scams — CLEARWATER, Fla. —(Business Wire)— March 27, 2006 — CastleCops, a globally oriented security and privacy site, and Sunbelt Software …
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Spyware Confidential, Ramblings of a Computer Guru, Sunbelt BLOG and Donna's SecurityFlash
Rafat / PaidContent.org:
Once a Maverick, Google Joins the Lobbying Herd: Google's lobbying efforts are intensifying as the company tries to find a way to balance employees' Democrat leanings with legislative reality. Understatement of the day: Lauren Maddox, a principal in one lobbying firm with a Google account: "They are brilliant engineers.
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Stepto / the Microsoft Security Response Center Blog:
Third party solutions to the Internet Explorer CreateTextRange vulnerability — Hi everyone, Mike Reavey here. I wanted to make everyone aware of some recent developments regarding the "Create TextRange" IE vulnerability. First off we're still not seeing increased spread of attacks …
Robert / infOpinions?:
The Worst of PR and WOM - All In One Post — T he worst aspects of PR and Word-of-mouth (WOM) were laid bare in one pitiful post this weekend. Filled with stereotypes and void of character (while masquerading as one), Strumpette busts on the scene and is quickly exposed by - a student.
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Major Nelson / Xbox Live's Major Nelson:
Manage your Xbox Live friends list from the web — Just in time for the Xbox free live weekend, the 'My Xbox' section of Xbox .com has been upgraded. You can now send, receive, or decline a friends request...or remove a friend from your friends lists directly from Xbox.com.
Erick Schonfeld / B2Day:
Rumor of the Week: iPhone Pics! — Okay, it's not even April Fool's yet and things are getting out of hand. Mac OS Rumors is passing off the image at right as: … Well, we here at Business 2.0 can only hope that the real iPhone ends up looking like this mockup, since we commissioned the image for our April, 2005 cover!
Daily Wireless:
Net Neutrality Going Down? — In a blow to proponents of "Net Neutrality", Rep. Joe Barton, the Texas Republican who heads the House Energy and Commerce Committee, released new text on the proposed bill today. — Phone companies and cable TV operators alike could seek permission to launch video …
hotelchatter.com:
Worst WiFi Hotels 2006 — A HotelChatter Exclusive — While these days most hotels are implementing a wireless connection in their properties, you are still not guaranteed a free connection, a good signal, nor a consistent WiFi solution across all hotels in a particular brand family.
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Gizmodo, IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband, Things That, The Mobile Technology Weblog and Boing Boing
determina.com:
Overview & Instructions On Downloading The Free Determina Shield For CVE-2006-1359 — Based on the same technology used in the VPS LiveShield product, Determina has engineered a standalone fix that provides free and immediate protection to users worldwide that need to protect systems …
BBC:
EU cracks down on mobile charges — Mobile phone users could pay less for making calls from abroad to their country of origin, under proposals put forward by the European Commission. — The Commission said it would draft a law to crack down on "unjustified" high charges for using mobile phones abroad.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
5 Years For Nation Wide WiFi — In five years, most major metros and suburbs will have ubiquitous Wi-Fi based broadband coverage says Chuck Haas, the co-founder and chief executive officer of MetroFi, a Mountain View, Calif.,-based start-up that is rolling out metro wireless networks.
Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
Robert Scoble: Poster child for good corporate blogging — Robert Scoble is responding to some of the heat for his blog "Scoble: Poster child for not blogging". In the blog world Robert Scoble is an 'A-List" player and one of the most respected and well read bloggers in the world.
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
TabletKiosk UMPC pricing revealed — Ok, here we go folks, a UMPC with anannounced price, ready to order. First from the gates is the TabletKiosk [V-700] or rather,"eo" UMPC v7110. Now, forget what you heard about these pups dropping for around $500 to help position thembetween the handheld and laptop market, mkay?
John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
SEARCH SHARE — From a Bear Stearns report on comScore data, Google continues to gain ground in search share in the US. Given all that's going on in search and related media, that's impressive. From the report, which was emailed to me:
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Cisco Cheng / Gearlog:
Toshiba's First Gaming Laptop: The Satellite P105-S921 — It's official folks; Toshiba is set to launch its first gaming laptop along with several other new Satellites. Why is it a big deal? Well, the Satellite P105-S921 is launching with Nvidia Corporation, for the first time, unveiling the new GeForce Go 7900 GS.
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