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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 …
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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 …
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CenterNetworks:
Google is biggest says comScore and Google most powerful brand says Millward Brown — SFGate has a lengthy article about two major news releases regarding Google. The first being that they have surpassed Microsoft as the most trafficked web site property and the second is that they have won 2007 …
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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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Between the Lines, Valleywag, Apple 2.0, The Next Net, Apple Gazette, The Unofficial Apple Weblog and Business Wire
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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 …
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Kevin Newcomb / ClickZ:Ask.com to Launch Contextual Ad Network
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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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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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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:SSD prices in freefall — won't overtake hard disks anytime soon
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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 …
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.
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Yet another Microsoft search exec calls it quits — The shake-ups in Microsoft's search organization aren't over yet. — On April 24, Microsoft announced internally that Dane Glasgow, general manager for Live Search, is leaving the company to work for various nonprofits and spend more time with his family.
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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 …
Basil / Mozilla Developer News:
What's happening with Mozilla Firefox 1.5? — Wanted to notify the community that Mozilla will only supply security and stability upgrades for Firefox 1.5 until mid-May of this year. We encourage all Firefox 1.5 users to visit http://getfirefox.com to download the latest version of Firefox today.
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eMediaWire:
Presenting the Coffee Machine That Reads Minds — Coffee machine company says it will lead the way for "super-automatic" coffee machines that use artificial intelligence. This new breed of learning coffee makers could be introduced in the next several years, predicts coffee machine retailer.
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.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Why is Scribd so hot? — Last couple of days from many different sources we have been hearing about this little company called Scribd. A funding frenzy is taking place around the company, with some of the top name venture capitalists jostling to invest in the company.
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