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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Day 59: Yahoo Buys BuzzTracker — Now, we're cooking with some gas over at Yahoo, closing in on the two-thirds point of Jerry Yang's declared 100-day March to Happiness. — Today, the Internet giant will announce the purchase of a clever Web site called BuzzTracker, which uses a combination …
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Alan / Participate Media:
Joining Yahoo! — I am excited to announce that I am joining Yahoo! to run Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com) as Vice President and General Manager. Yahoo! is also acquiring BuzzTracker.com and related technologies as well as bringing on all Participate Media staff.
Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Were Techmeme and Sphere too greedy? — Kara Swisher at All Things D reports that Yahoo has acquired a blog aggregator — or "meme-tracker" — called Buzztracker for the bargain price of $5-million or so. Not a bad payout for a site that appears to have been founded and run by a couple of guys.
TDavid / Things That:Since Yahoo can't buy Google News, settles for second rate BuzzTracker instead
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
SCO files for bankruptcy — SCO Group, best known for suing IBM, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. — In a statement, SCO said it was filing to reorganize under Chapter 11. — The Board of Directors of The SCO Group (history lesson) have unanimously determined that Chapter 11 reorganization …
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PR Newswire:
The SCO Group Files Chapter 11 to Protect Assets as It Addresses Potential Financial and Legal Challenges — Reorganization ensures business as usual and that assets remain for continued support of customers and channel partners — LINDON, Utah, Sept. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall …
CNET News.com:
Web ad blocking may not be (entirely) legal — Advertising-supported companies have long turned to the courts to squelch products that let consumers block or skip ads: it happened in the famous lawsuit against the VCR in 1979 and again with ReplayTV in 2001.
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Inquirer:
Google readies PowerPoint killer — Slideshow program will be with you, Presently — SURE AS EGGS ARE EGGS, it's been known for a long while that Google will at some point take on PowerPoint with a web-based presentations package. The breaking news is that the coming-out party for the software is any day now.
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Brian Morrissey / Adweek:
Brightcove Narrows Focus — NEW YORK While it once had ambitions to compete with YouTube for viewers and ad networks for media dollars, Brightcove is now focusing squarely on its video technology. — As part of that push, the company will cease to develop its less than one-year-old video portal …
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I, Cringely . The Pulpit | PBS:
The Power of Six — I wrote a few weeks ago about Google's attempt to influence the rules for redeployment of the 700-MHz radio band in the U.S. for voice and data applications. Google said it would agree to pony up the $4.6 billion auction reserve price if only the FCC would first guarantee …
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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / eWEEK.com:
What the Hell Is Microsoft Doing with My Computer? — Opinion: Microsoft is sneaking "updates" into my PCs. What the heck! — Listen carefully. They're my computers. They're not your computers. I choose to put Windows on some of them. I choose what applications go on them.
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Brandon Hill / DailyTech:
Apple Activates $100 Offer For Early iPhone Customers — Apple's $100 store credit offer for iPhone buyers goes live — When Apple announced that it cut the price of the iPhone by $200 to $399, there were many irate customers yelling at their computer screens.
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Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
First Prince, now Village People target YouTube — Somebody combined the Village People's hit song, "YMCA," with footage of a dancing Adolf Hitler and posted the clip to YouTube. Now the company that owns the rights to the band's music is preparing to sue YouTube.
Google Code:
Google welcomes ISO decision on OOXML — Google welcomes the ISO decision to not approve the fast track of Office Open XML (OOXML) proposed standard DIS 29500 (ECMA 376). — Our engineers conducted an independent analysis of the OOXML specification and found several areas of concern …
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Richard Siklos / Fortune:
Viacom's plan to be cool again — Left behind in the social media scene, the owner of MTV has some new stealth projects it hopes will allow it to catch up. Fortune's Richard Siklos divulges the media giant's plan. — NEW YORK (Fortune) — Will Sumner Redstone ever get over being bested …
