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Maija Palmer / Financial Times:
Autonomy to spin off consumer arm — Autonomy, the Cambridge-based search software company, on Wednesday announced plans to demerge and float its consumer division, with allows people to search internet TV and video clips. — The consumer division will be renamed Blinkx, and listed on London's AIM exchange for growth stocks in May.
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Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Autonomy Exercises Option To Buy Blinkx; Merges With Its Consumer Division; Will IPO It In London — This is among the first such IPOs in the still-nascent online video search space, and almost solves the mystery of the weirdly secretive relationship between the data/information search company Autonomy …
Eric Dash / New York Times:
No Charges for Apple Over Options — Federal securities regulators said yesterday that they would bring no civil charges against Apple over the backdating of executive stock options. But they stopped short of removing the cloud that for nearly a year has hung over the company's chief executive, Steven P. Jobs.
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San Francisco Chronicle:
Google surpasses Microsoft as world's most-visited site — It's official: Google rules the world. — The Mountain View search engine has outstripped Microsoft on two fronts, becoming both the most visited Web site and the most valuable global brand. — The events are major milestones for Google …
Royal Pingdom:
Top 20 DNS server map shows US internet dominance — The US has long held a dominating position in the web hosting industry. One way to examine this is to look at which DNS servers hold the most domain names. It turns out that 16 of the 20 largest DNS servers in the world are located in the US.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Results from Apple's (Bumpy) 2nd Q Due Today — Investors following Apple (AAPL) are even more skittish than usual in advance of the company's second quarter earnings report, scheduled for 5 p.m. ET today. — "My crystal ball is one of the cloudiest on record," wrote a company watcher …
Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News.com:
'Second Life' to strengthen its voice — SAN FRANCISCO—In the next several months, Second Life avatars may find their long-awaited voice, said Philip Rosedale, CEO of Linden Lab, publisher of the virtual world. — Many Second Life members have long desired to bring voice to their text-based avatars.
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Samsung announces 1.8-inch 120GB disk for UMPCs and perhaps, iPods — Oh Samsung, you and your obsession with the "world's biggest" puts even Jersey girls to shame. Chalk-up two more this morning with the world's highest capacity 1.8- and 2.5-inch hard disk drives.
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John Liu / Bloomberg:
Google to Sell Online Ads on China Telecom Web Sites (Update6) — Google Inc. won the right to sell advertising on 400 Web sites owned by China Telecom Corp., helping it compete with Microsoft Corp. and dominant local rival Baidu.com Inc. in the world's second-biggest Internet market.
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Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
FCC to reveal spectrum auction plan — The Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday is expected to begin setting rules for one of the most important wireless spectrum auctions in the foreseeable future. — The new rules, which determine how to divvy up licenses and actually auction …
Nokia:
Over 100 million S60 devices shipped — Volume market attracts mobile innovation — S60 Summit 2007, Madrid, Spain - Nokia today announced that over 100 million S60 devices have cumulatively been shipped by S60 licensees to date. S60 software built on Symbian OS is the world's leading …
Nathan Vardi / Forbes:
Patent Pirates — Hedge funds and institutional investors are financing the latest wave of IP lawsuits. — DeepNines is a tiny Dallas software maker that protects corporate computer networks from hackers and other threats. But in August it became an attacker, filing a lawsuit against McAfee (nyse: MFE - news - people ).
Lorraine Woellert / Business Week:
Was Uncle Sam Bilked by IT Kickbacks? — The Justice Dept. has accused at least a dozen tech companies of running secret rebate and commission schemes, and more charges are expected — With some big players already named in lawsuits alleging a widespread kickback scheme …
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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Google gets in on 'Intel Inside' campaign — Intel is injecting some of Google's famous ad magic into its "Intel Inside" campaign. — The world's largest microprocessor supplier and the most popular search engine were set to announce on Wednesday a co-marketing initiative that will allow makers …
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Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
Web threats to surpass e-mail pests — SAN FRANCISCO—By next year, Internet users can expect more cyberattacks to originate from the Web than via e-mail, security firm Trend Micro predicts. — E-mail has traditionally been the top means of attack, with messages laden with Trojan horses and other malicious programs hitting inboxes.
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Ask.com To Launch Contextual Advertising Product — Ask.com is launching a new sponsored listings contextual product and will go live the week of May 21st. — The Ask contextual product will initially launch within IAC's own network of sites including Match.com, Ticketmaster …
