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Iain Dey / Telegraph:
Yahoo may net Bebo owners $1bn — Yahoo is rumoured to be working on an attempted takeover of Bebo, Britain's most popular social networking site, which could turn its British-born founder into the next internet billionaire. — Michael Birch founded the site with his American wife, Xochi, in 2005.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo's Rumored $1 billion Talks With Bebo — Update: Recent Comscore traffic data for Bebo, MySpace and Facebook is here. — Rumors about social networking site Bebo being for sale come up every few months. First it was British Telecom for $550 million in July 2006 (we started that one) …
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Ilana DeBare / San Francisco Chronicle:
Narrowing Online Market Focus — Keywords are key: Small businesses find pay-per-click ads can be economical tool — Howard Mora started buying pay-per-click Internet ads two years ago for his Fremont pet-sitting business, the Animal Nanny. Today he gets about 40 new clients per year …
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Cynthia Brumfield / IP Democracy:
Why Can't Newspapers Get With the Program? — In a radical step for a newspaper, radical even in these dire days for the newspaper business, the San Francisco Chronicle announced that it is slashing 25% of its newsroom staff. Boom. One-quarter of the staff will be gone by the end of summer.
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Mark Evans:
The Chronicle's 25% Solution — Everyone knows newspapers are struggling to deal with lower circulation and advertising revenue but the San Francisco Chronicle's decision to slash 25% of its staff within a few months is eye-opening news. While this move will likely incite more concerns …
Mark Potts / Recovering Journalist:Betting on the Future — There's a lot of good reason for gloom …
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Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Bright Ideas: Reaping Results: Data-Mining Goes Mainstream — RODNEY MONROE, the police chief in Richmond, Va., describes himself as a lifelong cop whose expertise is in fighting street crime, not in software. His own Web browsing, he says, mostly involves checking golf scores.
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Margaret Webb Pressler / Washington Post:
For Texting Teens, an OMG Moment When the Phone Bill Arrives — Sofia Rubenstein, 17, got in trouble the way a lot of teens do these days. — Her incessant text-messaging racked up a huge phone bill on the family's wireless plan. — "It's whatever pops into my head. There's no stopping it," she said.
Nick / Rough Type:
Long player — I started reading David Weinberger's new book, Everything Is Miscellaneous, this weekend. I'd been looking forward to it. Weinberger has a supple, curious mind and an easy way with words. Even though I rarely agree with his conclusions, he gets the old brain moving - and that's what matters.
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Optimus Maximus: 113 keys, ready to pre-order — Ready to move around some funds in your accounts? Take out that loan from your mom? Tell your wife you just don't know why the account's a grand light? The Optimus Maximus is up for pre-order for $1564.37.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
MyMiniLife: Your Embeddable Virtual World — MyMiniLife is a Flash based virtual world/social network. Users create and customize a character and then build out a virtual space, adding walls, floors, doors, windows, etc. Users can then add customized goods ranging from lamps to cannons to the space …
Michael Fitzgerald / New York Times:
Prototype: Why Work Is Looking More Like a Video Game — WORK is not play. But maybe it should be. — In fact, Paul Johnston has remade his company on the idea that business software will work better if it feels like a game. Mr. Johnston is not some awkward adolescent …
Computerworld:
New and 'improved' Gozi Trojan version on the loose — Stealthier Russian Trojan on the loose since April — Jaikumar Vijayan Today's Top Stories or Other Security Stories — A new, stealthier version of a previously known Russian Trojan horse program called Gozi has been circulating …
Gizmodo:
Gallery: Giz Hearts Maker's Faire — That's Lisa and yours truly at the Flickr/Yahoo! booth, where they'd take a polaroid and scan it using some custom ware on a Sharp photocopier directly to Flickr. — And here's my photo stream of 90 photos from the amazing and completely overwhelming Maker's Faire.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Geni: Earning That $100 million Valuation — When genealogy site Geni announced that it had raised a venture round from Charles River Ventures valuing the two month old startup at $100 million, more than a few eyebrows were raised. For the last couple of months, people have referred to …
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