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Bloomberg:
Blockbuster Acquires Movielink — The video rental chain Blockbuster said yesterday that it had acquired the Internet movie provider Movielink to offer video downloading services to customers. — Blockbuster is also acquiring rights to show the films of Movie- link's owners …
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Wall Street Journal:
Blockbuster Adds Film Downloading With Movielink Deal — Movie-rental chain Blockbuster Inc. secured a foothold in the small but potentially significant online movie downloading business by acquiring Movielink LLC, a downloading service owned by the major Hollywood studios.
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PR Newswire:
Vonage Holdings Corp. Reports Second Quarter 2007 Results — HOLMDEL, N.J., Aug. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Vonage Holdings Corp. (NYSE: VG - News), a leading provider of broadband telephone service, today announced results for the quarter ended June 30, 2007.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Hey, Maybe Vonage Isn't Dead Yet — Vonage released its second quarter financial results today (I've embedded the release below with the new Zoho Viewer that launched last night). And while the stock continues to slide, revenues are way up and losses are slowing.
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Epicenter
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
Vonage flounders amid slowed subscriber growth — Internet Protocol telephony player Vonage is still hanging on, but the company, which has been mired in a nasty patent battle with Verizon Communications, is struggling to say afloat as it struggles to sign up new customers.
Brad Stone / New York Times:
Equity Firm Invests in NBC Universal-News Corp. Online Venture — The joint venture between NBC Universal and the News Corporation to bring their television shows and movies onto the Internet still lacks a Web site. It still has no name. It also has yet to announce a clear mission …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google News Hypocrisy: Walled Off Content — TechMeme founder Gabe Rivera makes an interesting observation on the Google News story all over the blogosphere today. … Google crawls news sites and grabs their content for republishing on Google News. They rely on the willingness of those news sites to get distribution on Google.
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Donna Bogatin / Insider Chatter:
Google Tightens Screws on Advertisers: AdWords Black Box Gets Blacker — Google search advertising is a costly Pandora's box that continuously increases in complexity, opaqueness and Google centricity. Google nevertheless has an uncanny ability to envelope its black box auction driven …
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Wolfgang Gruener / TG Daily:
T-Mobile planning VoIP service? — Recommend article: — Chicago (IL) - A new wireless broadband router popped up on the FCC website today, indicating the Linksys and T-Mobile are working together on expanding the T-Mobile Hotspot@Home service from a cellphone to multiple home phone lines.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Coming Soon, Nokia N95 with US 3G Support — After a long morning at Cupertino on Tuesday, I spent much of the afternoon taping The GigaOM Show for this week. We invited Blake Krikorian, CEO and co-founder of Sling Media, to come on and talk about all things newteevee.
ninemsn:
McNaught fronts sexy IT campaign — For many, it's a rare occurrence — the words "sexy" and "IT" in the same sentence. — But with the help of former Miss Australia Erin McNaught, Microsoft is out to show teenagers that IT careers have gone from "geek to chic".
John Blau / PC World:
Vodafone Joins WiMax Forum — Already a supporter of the upcoming LTE cellular technology, Vodafone has also joined the WiMax Forum. — Recommend this story? — Vodafone Group PLC doesn't want to miss out on the next big wireless technology, no matter what it is.
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Computerworld
Thomas Mennecke / Slyck:
BitTorrent Addresses Closed Source Issues — BitTorrent gained prominence in the file-sharing community largely due to its open source nature. What began as an unknown file-sharing client quickly diversified into a vast collection of applications. Developers were able …
Jacqui Cheng / Infinite Loop:
Apple makes iMovie HD 6 available for download — Are you an iMovie user who misses what you once knew and loved after installing iLife '08? I know that there are more than just a few of you (and a few of us at the Orbiting HQ) who have a strong disdain for the newest version of iMovie.
Arik Hesseldahl / Business Week:
What's Behind Apple's iWork? — Microsoft's Office still dominates the market, but Apple's new software may signal a tectonic shift in the two behemoths' uneasy alliance — It's hard not to wonder if the relationship between Cupertino and Redmond isn't a bit more strained these days.
Seth Kugel / New York Times:
A House That's Just Unreal — FROM the roof deck of Sherman Ochs's Mexican-style villa atop a breezy bluff, the entire island of Jalisco, population about 20, spreads out below. It is a picturesque place of palm trees, lush lawns and near-cloudless skies.
