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2:55 PM ET, August 1, 2007

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L. Gordon Crovitz / Wall Street Journal:
A Report to Our Readers  —  Dear Readers:  —  Since May, one of the biggest business stories has been who will own Dow Jones, publisher of The Wall Street Journal — despite this era's usual relegation of a mere $5 billion transaction to a footnote.  The coverage has been gratifying …
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Murdoch Wins His Bid for Dow Jones
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Google, Others Contest Copyright Warnings  —  Diehard baseball fans can recite by heart the familiar copyright warnings that run with every game on television.  —  Now, a computer-industry trade group is crying foul, saying those warnings and others like it on movies and books are trampling …
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Peter Lauria / New York Post:
DISCOVERY BUYS GREEN  —  Discovery Communications has scooped up a companion Web site to its upcoming Planet Green cable network, agreeing to buy Treehugger.com for about $10 million, The Post has learned.  —  The deal, expected to be announced today, marks the first acquisition for Discovery under …
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Stuff.co.nz:
The future according to Sony  —  UPDATED What are the challenges ahead for the PlayStation 3?  Warwick Light, of Sony Computer Entertainment New Zealand, discusses them with GERARD CAMPBELL.  —  Warwick Light, Sony Computer Entertainment New Zealand's head of marketing, calls the PlayStation 3 an "incredible transformer".
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David Carnoy / Crave: The gadget blog:
Sony to add Tivo capabilities to the PS3 in 2008?
Discussion: The Boy Genius Report
Business Wire:
Time Warner Inc. Reports Second Quarter 2007 Results  —  Board of Directors Authorizes New $5 Billion Stock Repurchase Program  —  NEW YORK—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Time Warner Inc. (NYSE:TWX - News) today reported financial results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2007.
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Time Warner: Q2 Mixed; AOL Ad Growth Soft; TW Cable Broadband Weak; Cable Stocks Dip
Discussion: IP Democracy
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Amazon To Launch Payments Services; Will Compete With PayPal and Google Checkout  —  Look for a launch announcement by Amazon this week or next of a new web service around payments, adding to their S3 (storage), EC2 (virtual server) and other services.  They've been quietly testing the service …
Ethan Smith / Wall Street Journal:
Digital-Music Holdout AC/DC Spurns iTunes, Signs With Verizon  —  AC/DC, one of the last high-profile holdouts in the digital-music era, is finally making its 17-album catalog available to online music buyers.  But in a twist that highlights shifting power dynamics in the world of digital music retailing …
Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
TC Interns' 10 Favorite Facebook Applications  —  As a few titans of tech blogging recently began to go back and forth over whether platform-enhanced Facebook is really worth the hassle, we lowly interns over here at TechCrunch decided to list our favorite Facebook applications …
Discussion: Go2web2, Scobleizer and Mark Evans
Kim Zetter / Wired News:
Scan This Guy's E-Passport and Watch Your System Crash  —  A German security researcher who demonstrated last year that he could clone the computer chip in an electronic passport has revealed additional vulnerabilities in the design of the new documents and the inspection systems used to read them.
Discussion: Engadget
Vidya Lakshmipathy / Forrester Research:
The Mobile Web Versus The Web On An iPhone: iPhone Wins In A Blowout  —  EXECUTIVE SUMMARY  —  On June 29, 2007, Apple released the highly anticipated iPhone to the public.  Forrester evaluated the iPhone's capabilities, and we believe that the iPhone signals the beginning of the end …
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
New Study: Top 50k blogs had $500 million in 2006 Revenue  —  A new study being published by the University of Texas and Chitika says that the top 50,000 blogs may have generated around $500 million in aggregate 2006 revenue.  The data behind the study is rather thin - They are looking …
Discussion: HipMojo.com and Profy.Com
Harrison Hoffman / The Web Services Report:
Avenue A/Razorfish announces SiLC search engine optimization tool  —  I got a chance to sit down with William Flaiz, VP of SEO and Web Analytics at Avenue A/Razorfish today at ad:tech Chicago to talk about its new search engine optimization technology.  For those of you who don't know …
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider and 901am
Monica Chen / DigiTimes:
AMD software let defective graphics cards slip into the channel  —  AMD's official graphics card diagnostic and validation software was recently discovered to have a bug that failed to detect defective ATI Radeon HD 2400 and 2600 graphics cards, according to sources at graphics card makers.
Discussion: TechSpot News and The Tech Report
Adario Strange / Wired News:
After Selling Opsware, Andreessen Turns to His Third Startup, Ning  —  When Hewlett-Packard acquired Opsware for $1.6 billion in cash last week, it changed the reputation of serial entrepreneur and web pioneer Marc Andreessen forever.  —  Andreessen was the golden boy of the internet's early days …
Discussion: Marc's Voice
 
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Canon iVIS HG10 High-Def HDD Camcorder
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / splashcastmedia.com:
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The Register:
Dancing Ballmer subjected to Zune dance therapy
Phil Lattimore / Tech.co.uk:
iPhone now speaks foreign languages!
Discussion: SMS Text News
Andy Beal / Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim:
Google Dumps Supplemental Name Not Index
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Google Talk VoIP phone in development... again?
Discussion: dailywireless.org
PC Advisor:
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Business Wire:
Maven Networks Scores Major League Marketer as its New Vice President of Marketing
Discussion: Beet.TV and paidContent.org
Sanjay Raman / Official Google Blog:
Google Apps goes global
Search Daily News:
Google Testing Sponsored Links With Local Maps
ZDNet:
Acer: 'No UK demand' for Linux laptops
Rob Beschizza / Gadget Lab:
Ten Reasons To Throw Away Your Cellphone
Discussion: MobileCrunch, Lifehacker and digg
Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
The race to build a "Platform within the Platform" is on
Discussion: CostPerNews
Marc Andreessen / blog.pmarca.com:
The Pmarca Guide to Startups, part 7: Why a startup's initial …
Jim Goldman / CNBC.com:
Apple Shares Plunge On Rumors of iPhone, iPod Problems