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8:20 AM ET, April 19, 2007

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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
eBay Acquiring StumbleUpon  —  High-flying startup StumbleUpon has been rumored to be in acquisition discussions since at least last November.  Recently we've heard that talks have heated up again, with Google, AOL and eBay as potential suitors.  A source with knowledge of the deal …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Why eBay wants Stumbleupon  —  Updated: TechCrunch just reported that StumbleUpon is in talks to being acquired with AOL, Google and eBay as possible suitors.  Though we have not been able to chat with folks from StumbleUpon, the social bookmarking discovery service, we have heard that eBay is the likely winner of the derby.
Karen / Official Google Blog:
Searching without a query  —  You already know that search is at the core of everything we do: we want to deliver useful and relevant information every time you do a search.  But what about when you don't have a query in mind, or if you just don't feel like typing in a query?
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google Rains On StumbleUpon Parade: Launches Direct Competitor  —  On the same day that the news breaks that eBay is acquiring StumbleUpon for $40ish million, Google announces that they are building strikingly similar functionality into their Toolbar.  Google (along with AOL) …
Discussion: CenterNetworks and digg
Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:   eBay Acquires StumbleUpon: 8 Reasons Why
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Goodbye Froogle, Hello Google Product Search!  —  Back in December 2002, Google launched its long expected product and shopping search engine.  It was called Froogle, a combination of "frugal" and "Google."  Just over four years later, Froogle is finally losing its cutesy name for something …
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Karen / Official Google Blog:
Back to basics  —  Posted by Marissa Mayer, VP, Search & User Experience, and Jeff Bartelma, Product Manager, Google Product Search (formerly known as Froogle :) )  —  Today, we're making some changes to how we help users find things to buy.  You may be familiar with our product Froogle (a pun on "frugal").
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Google takes the pun out of shopping  —  Acknowledging that it's better to be clear than clever, Google is rebranding "Froogle" as "Google Product Search" and simplifying the interface to match the main search site, a top executive said on Wednesday.  —  Froogle was launched in late 2002 …
Business Wire:
eBay Inc. Announces First Quarter 2007 Financial Results  —  Reports Record Q1 Net Revenues of $1.77 Billion  —  Delivers Q1 GAAP Diluted EPS of $0.27 and Non-GAAP Diluted EPS of $0.33  —  Raises Full Year Guidance  —  SAN JOSE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—eBay Inc. (Nasdaq:EBAY - News …
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Reuters:
eBay beats profit estimates, raises outlook
Discussion: Skype Journal
Phil Wolff / Skype Journal:
Skype financials: a few more notes on the data
Paul Kapustka / GigaOM:
Skype Revenues Up, but Usage Flat
Discussion: Bloomberg and VoIP Watch
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Exclusive: MySpace News Launches Thursday  —  On Thursday morning MySpace will launch its much rumored news property at news.myspace.com.  Expect the site to go live and a press release to be issued around 7 am EST.  —  The news property is built on Newroo technology, a company they acquired in early 2006 for a rumored $7 million.
Read/WriteWeb:
Widgetsphere: New Playground For Marketers  —  If you're in the online marketing game and are not yet hip to widgets, listen up.  Two emerging Web 2.0 technology firms focused in this space have a message for you.  Those companies are Widgetbox and ClearSpring, both of which presented …
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Sean Ammirati / Read/WriteWeb:   Web 2.0 Expo: All Things Widgets
Brian Bergstein / Associated Press:
Media mine Web searches for readers  —  If you Googled "Virginia Tech shooting" or "Virginia shooting" this week, the Internet search engine served up dozens of links to news about the university massacre.  Yet some media outlets weren't taking the chance of missing readers' attention by being bumped down the list.
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Liz Gannes / GigaOM:
VA Tech Tragedy Response Reveals Force of Web
Microsoft:
Microsoft Announces Commitment to Promote Sustained Social and Economic Opportunity for the Next 5 Billion People  —  Company unveils affordable education suite for young people in developing nations and announces plans for 90 new Innovation Centers to promote local software ecosystems.
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Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Vlogging comes to mass murder  —  The Virginia Tech shooter sent a package of video and pictures to NBC.  —  In other words, vlogging comes to mass murder, in ways no one anticipated (or no one I know).  —  It makes perfect sense, in a perfectly senseless way.
Mr Blog:
Fring is technically impressive, but I'm still wondering about its utility  —  I have mentioned Fring a few times before.  The most recent post left it that I had not been able to complete the setup because I never received the SMS from Fring on my phone.  —  I sat down with Boaz Zilberman …
Adam Ostrow / Mashable!:
Zude May Be A Better Netvibes  —  Since the dawn of the Web, startups have promised users a quick and easy way to create a presence online.  With the advent of "cross-domain drag and drop" technology from a new company called Zude, CEO Jim McNeil believes everyone from MySpace addicts …
Terry Heaton / Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog:
SAY GOODBYE TO THE PAGE VIEW AS AN AD METRIC  —  If your web advertising strategy is built around page views, you're going to have to find another way to sell.  We've been saying this day would come for a long time, and today, The Wall St. Journal is reporting that Nielsen NetRatings will drop …
Discussion: Liberate Media and WebProNews
Glenn Wolsey:
Interview: Will Friedwald, Owner Of The Worlds Largest iTunes Collection  —  Will Friedwald proclaims he has the world largest iTunes collection.  An avid listener to Jazz music, and a writer for the New York Sun, Will spends his days in front of his Power Mac G5 running "The Maxtix", his mammoth 200,000 track iTunes library.
Discussion: Cult of Mac, PaulStamatiou.com and digg
 
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Jeremy Reimer / Ars Technica:
Study: Windows costs $21.50 extra in "patent tax"
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Twitter, Inc.  —  When we started Obvious in October of last year …
Discussion: Epicenter, Twitterati and GigaOM
Michael Singer / InformationWeek:
Intel, Web 2.0 Firms Build Collaboration Tool
BBC:
Blackberry says system restored
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Guy Kawasaki / How to Change the World:
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Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
Yahoo's challenge: Getting the social Web right
Reuters:
Judge won't dismiss Google trademark suit
Discussion: Search Engine Land
 Earlier Items: 
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Gartner: Mac Sales Grew 30% in 1st Q
Peter Galli / eWEEK.com:
Security Remains a Challenge for Browser Developers
Qblogger / Windows Home Server Blog:
CTP Gets the Greenlight
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Google Video powering some pirate sites
Tom Coates / plasticbag.org:
A Hack for Europe!
Jordan Robertson / Associated Press:
No Penalty for Tax Filers Hit by Glitch
Alan Sipress / Washington Post:
Patently at Odds  —  Drug and Tech Sectors Battle With Reform High on Agenda
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Sling, Apple discuss streaming music to iPhone
 

 
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Ofcom rules that five GB News programs presented by Conservative politicians have broken its due impartiality rules and puts the channel “on notice”

Todd Spangler / Variety:
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