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Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
Facebook Classified Ad Offering Deals Another Blow To Newspapers — It's sure rough trying to charge for a service that other businesses are offering for free. Just ask any newspaper exec. With 20/20 hindsight, it seems inevitable that the web would be the perfect platform for free classified ads …
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Brad Stone / New York Times:
Facebook to Offer Free Classifieds — Facebook, the social networking Web site, is adding free classified ad listings, putting it into competition with dozens of established companies like Craigslist and many newspapers. — Facebook, which has 22 million active users …
Mark Evans:
Another Blow for Newspapers? — Everyone knows Facebook has become a social networking phenomena but can the company's influence migrate into other areas. We'll soon find out as Facebook is adding free classified ads. For anyone looking to reach an audience of 22 million active users …
Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:It's the social part that is the killer
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Jim Dalrymple / Macworld:
Jobs addresses backdating, environment at shareholder meeting — At Apple's annual shareholders meeting in Cupertino on Thursday, Steve Jobs and other company executives heard criticism about the company's stock-options scandal and the recently announced delay of of the forthcoming Leopard version …
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Answers from Steve Jobs at Apple's Shareholder Meeting — Those comments didn't stop Greenpeace representatives from using the meeting as an opportunity to advertise the groups anti-Apple campaign. Among the activists sent by Greenpeace was Iza Kruszewska, one of the key architects …
Debra Sherman / Reuters:
iPods can make pacemakers malfunction - study — iPods can cause cardiac implantable pacemakers to malfunction by interfering with the electromagnetic equipment monitoring the heart, according to a study presented by a 17-year-old high school student to a meeting of heart specialists on Thursday.
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Ed Felten / Freedom to Tinker:
HBO Exec Wants to Rename DRM — People have had lots of objections to Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology — centering mainly on its clumsiness and the futility of its anti-infringement rationale — but until recently nobody had complained that the term "Digital Rights Management" was insufficiently Orwellian.
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Exclusive: McCartney Goes Digital, Beatles 'Virtually Settled' — Brian Garrity, N.Y. and Paul Sexton, London — Paul McCartney's new album, "Memory Almost Full," will be his first solo release available for download and streaming on PCs and mobile phones.
Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Apple, others draw legal threat over media players — update A California company that makes technology designed to prevent ripping of digital audio streams has accused Apple, Microsoft, RealNetworks and Adobe Systems of violating federal copyright law by "actively avoiding" use of its products.
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Amy Thomson / Bloomberg:
Vonage Says It May Have Way Around Disputed Patents (Update5) — Vonage Holdings Corp. said it may have technology that could rescue its Internet-phone service, after a jury found the company infringed patents that allow customers to call standard telephones.
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Laurie J. Flynn / New York Times:At Vonage, Sales Increase as Litigation Clouds Future
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Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Out of Chaos, Order. Or So Google Says. — Over the years, Google has carefully cultivated the image of a zany company in which innovation and new products — lots of new products — emerge from a bit of chaos. — Now Google is trying to put some order into that chaos — or at least appear to do so.
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Business Wire:
MySpace Launches Take Down Stay Down Copyright Protection — Leading Lifestyle Portal Launches Ground-breaking Tool to Prevent Users from Reposting Unauthorized Copyrighted Content — LOS ANGELES—(BUSINESS WIRE)—MySpace, the world's leading lifestyle portal, today announced the launch …
Kevin Kelleher / GigaOM:
Orbitz, the worst IPO of 2007? — We're not even halfway through 2007 and I'm ready to make a nomination for worst IPO candidate of the year: Orbitz. — You may recall that Orbitz - the online travel site founded by five major airlines in 2000 - went public at $26 a share in 2003.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
TechCrunch20 Conference: Caterina Fake, MC Hammer & Rajeev Motwani Join Expert Panel — I'm excited to announce the next three experts for the TechCrunch20 Conference in San Francisco this September. Caterina Fake, MC Hammer and Rajeev Motwani join the previously announced experts.
Erik Larkin / PC World:
Google Shareholders Vote Against Anti-Censorship Proposal — The failed shareholder proposal would have stopped Google from engaging in self-censorship. — A majority of Google shareholders today voted against an anti-censorship proposal that took aim at the way the search giant conducts …
