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Joost Closes $45 Million in Financing — Leading Venture Capital Firms and Content Owners Support Joost's Global Expansion — Index Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Li Ka Shing Foundation, CBS Corporation and Viacom Participate in Round — NEW YORK—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Joost&trade …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:Joost Announces $45 million Funding From Sequoia, Index, CBS & Viacom
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Stace / Unwired View:
NEXT GEN IPOD AND IPHONE NANO: FULL SCREEN WITH TOUCHPANEL AT THE BOTTOM — With introduction of an iPhone, Apple opened our eyes to the possibilities of full screen touch interfaces. But such interfaces have one drawback - there's a limit how small you can make it.
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Gizmodo:
Apple: Next Gen iPod Patent Has "Touch Surface" On Back — The newest iPod patent says that the "touch" and the "screen" don't have to go together. The next gen iPod will have a normal display covering the front, and a separate touch surface on the back. Here's how it'll work.
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EE Times:
Xuuk's eye-counting technology mimics Google — PORTLAND, Ore. — Xuuk Inc. has unveiled an eye-counting video camera that could enable the highly successful Google business model to be extended online to brick-and-mortar advertisers. — Using its PageRank technology, Google (Mountain View …
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Paul Conley / paulconley:
All's well that ends well — I like a happy ending. — Harry McCracken has been reinstated as editor of PC World. And that should please everyone at PC World, parent company IDG and the journalism world in general. — If you haven't been following the story, you can read coverage from CNET.
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Kim Zetter / Epicenter:PC World Editor Assured of Autonomy
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Kevin 'Digg' Rose goes for 3rd startup — First Digg, then the online video network, Revision 3 and now another start-up! — Business Week poster boy Kevin Rose is rumored to have teamed up with Daniel Burka also of Digg, and first time entrepreneur Leah Culver and has started a new company.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Widget mania run amok? — For past few days there has been an amazing amount of chatter about widgets - which are transforming themselves into advertising widgets, billboards and what not. Earlier today, for instance Mpire introduced shopping widgets that tap into say eBay and Amazon, and let you sell goods via Mpire widgets.
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Ryan Block / Engadget:
Zune to get wireless downloads, version 2 hardware, flash player — Sometimes you can never know for sure, but we've got some pretty convincing material from a Zune source which shows a beta build of firmware v1.4 (shown as 2.1.4, perhaps as an internal designation).
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Mike Neil / TechNet Blogs:
Viridian features update; beta planned for Longhorn RTM — Here we are on the eve of WinHEC 2007. This show is always a fun industry event for me to engage with a broad spectrum of partners. Perhaps none better than last year, when we demo'd Windows Server virtualization (codename Viridian) …
Nokia:
Nokia becomes the first phone maker to add energy saving alerts to mobiles — Espoo, Finland - Nokia has launched the first mobile phones to include alerts encouraging people to unplug the charger once the battery is full, a move that could save enough electricity to power 85,000 homes a year.
Intel:
Intel Capital Kicks Off Annual CEO Summit; Announces Six New Global Investments — Deals Covering U.S., China and Israel Total $31 Million — Intel Capital, the venture capital arm of Intel Corporation, kicked off its eighth annual CEO Summit today with the announcement of six investments totaling $31 million.
Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories:
Solid freeform fabrication: DIY, on the cheap, and made of pure sugar — In February we gave a sneak preview of our project to construct a home-built three dimensional fabricator. Our design goals were (1) a low cost design leveraging recycled components (2) large printable volume emphasized …
Harrison Hoffman / LiveSide:
How to launch a cool product: Marketing with silly videos — Making silly web videos to promote the launch of your product is all the rage at Microsoft these days, so of course the worldwide launch of Windows Live Hotmail, this week, also saw the launch of a self-described "viral" (see the url) ad campaign.
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Yahoo hires economics, sociology researchers — Yahoo is hiring two scientists in the areas of economics and sociology to head up its research in online markets and social networks, the company is expected to announce Thursday. — R. Preston McAfee, the J. Stanley Johnson professor of business …
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Samwers bankrolled Facebook clone, now Twitter clone — The Samwer brothers, the well-known European trio of entrepreneurs, have invested in Frazr, an exact duplicate of Twitter. — They have thus embarked on a reputation of backing blatant rip-offs of successful U.S. companies.
Dale Nardozzi / previews.teamxbox.com:
First Look at Crackdown Downloadables (Xbox 360) — Crackdown began its life as an open sandbox game from former Grand Theft Auto gurus, spent its mid-life as a marketing experiment for Halo 3, and is kicking back as one of the best Xbox 360 games to date. But this critically-acclaimed sci …
Fred / A VC:
(Over) Counting Widgets — I got an email from a friend the other day. — "Did you see that Clearspring has served 3bn widgets in the past five months?" — I hadn't actually seen that news, but here is the press release my friend was referring to. It's clearly an impressive number …
