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Los Angeles Times:
News Corp., NBC pull together to challenge YouTube — Several media giants are teaming up to challenge Google Inc. and its YouTube video-sharing service, seeking to blunt their incursion into the entertainment business. — News Corp. and NBC Universal plan to announce as soon as today …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
News Corp, NBC May Announce Distributed YouTube Competitor Today; Google Scoffs — There have been rumors of a TV network led joint venture to compete with YouTube for months - the first time we heard it was just a couple of days after the first rumor of Google's acquisition of the company.
Rafat Ali / PaidContent:More on Youtube-Rivals JV: Fox, NBC and Sony; Distribution on MySpace, MSN and Yahoo
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Erica Ogg / CNET News.com:
Best Buy finagles Apple TV exclusive — The blue-shirted ones scored a mini coup this week. — Best Buy said today that the just-released Apple TV will be available in all 822 of its U.S. stores starting Tuesday. That's two weeks ahead of all other retailers that are not named the Apple Store.
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David Pogue / New York Times:
Apple TV Has Landed — In the technology world, conventional wisdom says that we'll soon be saying R.I.P. for the DVD. Internet downloads are the future, baby. No driving, no postpaid envelopes. Any movie, any TV show, any time. — Only one problem: once you've downloaded the shows to your computer …
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Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:
Kongregate Gets $1M, Launches User Generated Games — We covered Kongregate when they were in private beta, but they're officially public with a new wad of cash from some big names to back them up. They've created a gaming community around Flash games developed by other users …
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Kongregrate, the online social game hub — Kongregate, of San Francisco, launches tomorrow with a host of Web games targeted at young males with social networking components pushing new bounds. — Kongregate is signifiacant because it targets a group that until now hasn't been served by online social games.
Major Nelson / Xbox Live's Major Nelson:
Xbox Live Security — Despite some recent reports and speculation, I want to reassure all of our 6 million Xbox Live members that we have looked into the situation and found no evidence of any compromise of the security of the Xbox Live Network or Bungie.net.
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Kristen Nicole / Mashable!:
Yahoo Widgets 4 Launches — Update: it's now live! — Yahoo Widgets 4 is set to launch in a few moments, and the anticipation is killing us! In Yahoo's latest round of widgetry, there will be an improved widget dock that can be attached to any corner of your monitor …
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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Yahoo names click fraud czar — Yahoo has promoted one of its staff attorneys to an executive-level position that is akin to being click fraud czar at the second largest Web search provider. — For seven years, Reggie Davis helped the Web search company defend itself against lawsuits …
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Did Google turn down the revenue knob? — Tonight at Jeff Pulver's awesome party I met a Google employee who I'll keep nameless. He works closely with the advertising team and found it interesting that I noticed that Google is putting fewer advertisements on each page than its competitor.
Nokia:
Nokia N95 multimedia computer starts shipping — Espoo, Finland - Nokia today announced that the Nokia N95 started shipping in key European, Asian and Middle Eastern markets, with expanded shipments to other markets in those regions in the coming weeks. The Nokia N95 is an all-in-one multimedia computer …
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media.guardian.co.uk:
ARE YOU READY TO PLAY IN THE AGE OF PERSONAL MEDIA? — Why attend the Changing Media Summit? — Brought to you by MediaGuardian, the definitve publisher of new media news and comment, the Changing Media Summit 2007 will debate and outline the essential strategies for commercial success in a digital age.
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Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Judge's decision leaves RIAA with lose-lose situation in Elektra v. Santangelo — The case of Elektra v. Santangelo has been one of the more closely followed cases in the RIAA's crusade against suspected file sharers, due in no small part to the aggressiveness of Patti Santangelo's defense.
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft severs Live Search from the rest of the Windows Live family — Live Search is no longer part of the larger Windows Live services family, in terms of engineering and development. — One by-product of the March 21 Microsoft announcement of the creation of a new Search and Ad Platform group got relatively little play.
The Huffington Post:
Phil de Vellis, aka ParkRidge47: I Made the "Vote Different" Ad — Hi. I'm Phil. I did it. And I'm proud of it. — I made the "Vote Different" ad because I wanted to express my feelings about the Democratic primary, and because I wanted to show that an individual citizen can affect the process.
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Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Oracle claims Yahoo as Linux convert — Oracle Chief Executive Larry Ellison announced the company's first prominent Linux customer Tuesday: Yahoo. But Red Hat hasn't been pushed aside at the Internet company. — Ellison cited the Yahoo deal as the first real evidence of progress …
Matthew G. Nelson / ClickZ:
IAC's Horan Talks Integration — At his keynote address today at the Kelsey Group's Drilling Down on Local '07 event in Santa Clara, Ca., Peter Horan, the CEO of IAC/InterActiveCorp Media and Advertising, explained his approach to managing his business is to focus on the customer perspective …
Fred Aun / ClickZ:
Online Video Ads Leave GIFs and JPGs Standing Still, Says DoubleClick — When it comes to grabbing the attention of Web surfers, advertising distributed via online video handily outpaces static image ads, according to a new DoubleClick report. — The company studied more than 300 online …
Raju Vegesna / Zoho Blogs:
Announcing Zoho Meeting — We are glad to announce the latest addition to the Zoho Suite, Zoho Meeting - a web conferencing application. — As this is a different kind of application (more of a real-time streaming) from the existing zoho applications we decided to take it slow by offering the app to selected users first.
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Jay Fortner / Read/WriteWeb:
Dekoh Challenges Apollo As Desktop/Web Platform — After the tremendous build-up and response to Adobe's Apollo platform, which aims to integrate desktop apps with the Web, we must also remember there are other products trying for the same thing. Dekoh is one such competitor and …
