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7:00 AM ET, April 29, 2008

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Alec Saunders SquawkBox:
Interview with JAJAH's Daniel Mattes on the eve of their deal with Yahoo!  —  Thought JAJAH was old news?  Think again.  Having attracted a whopping 10 million users in the last two years, up from 2 million just last year, they're now expanding their business in dramatically new directions with the launch of JAJAH Managed Services.
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Peter Svensson / Associated Press:
Yahoo to outsource Messenger phone calls to Jajah  —  NEW YORK - Yahoo Inc. is outsourcing the Internet telephone functions of its instant messaging program to the startup Jajah.  —  Jajah will connect the calls to and from users of Yahoo Messenger and handle billing and customer care, the startup said Tuesday.
Michael Learmonth / Silicon Alley Insider:
Cox Buys Ad Network Adify For $300M  —  Heard through the electronic grapevine and haven't been able to confirm: Cox Enterprises, the privately-held parent of Cox Newspapers and Cox Communications, is buying Adify, one of few remaining online ad networks of significant scale.  Supposed Purchase price: $300 million.
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Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Online Ad Network Adify Sold To Cox For $300 Million Plus Earnout  —  Adify, the white-label online ad network, has been sold to an unlikely buyer, Cox [Communications] Enterprises, for about $300 million and earn out, we have learned and confirmed from sources.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Ad Platform Adify Sold To Cox Enterprises For $300 Million (Updated: Confirmation)
Discussion: Washington Post and RyanSpoon.com
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Blodget Says Facebook Is Only Worth $9 Billion, Hypothetically Speaking  —  Putting a value on private companies is hard enough for insiders and venture capitalists who have full access to the company's financial statements.  When outsiders try to do it, even well-informed ones, it is nothing more than a guessing game.
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Dan Farber / Outside the Lines:
Silicon Alley Insider creates start-up valuation index  —  How much is Facebook, Wikipedia, or Twitter worth?  Silicon Alley Insider is attempting to crack the mysterious code on the valuations of the major Web start-ups with its SAI 25 Live!  It tracks the valuation of the private companies …
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider
Steven Musil / CNET News.com:
‘Grand Theft’ reviews give Take-Two a boost  —  Shares of game publisher Take-Two were up Monday on the heels of positive reviews of the forthcoming video game Grand Theft Auto IV, which is being released to the public at midnight Tuesday.  —  Shares of the game publisher traded as high as $27.10 …
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Matt Richtel / New York Times:
For Gamers, the Craving Won't Quit
Discussion: Crave and Digg
David Kravets / Threat Level:
Hans Reiser Guilty of First Degree Murder  —  OAKLAND, California — Jurors found Linux programmer Hans Reiser guilty of first degree murder on Monday, concluding he killed his estranged wife in 2006.  The verdict followed a nearly six-month trial and nearly three days of deliberation
Tom Foremski / IMHO:
Where's the next new thing in Silicon Valley?  —  Excellent article by Jeff Nolan, an ex-VC, writing in SandHill.com on venture capital investments and locating the next big thing.  —  Incrementalism and “The New New Thing” - With all the venture capital moving around in the Silicon Valley, where is the real innovation?
BBC:
Drowning in data  —  There is no doubt that video is big on the net.  But is it getting too big?  —  Ask AT&T and it will answer - yes.  —  Speaking in London in late April, Jim Cicconi, AT&T's vide president of legal affairs, said the burgeoning amount of video would consume all the net's bandwidth in two years.
Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
Pixar Backdating Scandal Reverberates At Google (GOOG)  —  Remember the big backdating scandal of, um, 2005 and 2006?  It hasn't gone away.  And it's touching companies that have so far remained unscathed: Today Google disclosed that board member Ann Mather is about to face civil charges …
Marc Cieslak / BBC:
Mean streets  —  Two of the biggest games of the year have finally arrived and they could not be more different.  —  For the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 Grand Theft Auto 4 is the latest in the hugely successful crime series.  Nintendo's Wii receives another innovative peripheral in the shape …
Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:
Yelp Lets Businesses Fight Back  —  Local businesses have a love/hate relationship with review site Yelp: The site sends new customer leads to the businesses reviewed.  But businesses can also be reviewed (and trashed) without even knowing Yelp exists.  —  Businesses like Oakland coffee …
Discussion: SarahLacy.com
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
RIAA files copyright suit against Project Playlist  —  The recording industry has filed a lawsuit alleging that Project Playlist, the company that provides an embeddable music player most often used at MySpace and Facebook, has violated its copyright.  —  According to a copy of the complaint obtained …
Jim Puzzanghera / Los Angeles Times:
Hollywood taking sides in network neutrality debate  —  Studios and artists split over its effects on digital distribution.  —  WASHINGTON — Hollywood believes the Internet is the key to its future.  But its constituents are again squabbling over how to get there.
 
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Voxel Takes Aim at CDNs, Amazon S3 Service
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Video: OQO hacked to run Leopard, now world's smallest Mac
Discussion: PalmAddicts
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Adventurers Unite on National Geographic's TOPO Explorer
Discussion: Ryan Stewart
Chris Kanaracus / IDG News Service:
Ribbit Launches Phone Service for Salesforce
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Judge Dismisses DMCA-Abuse Lawsuit Over Video Of Baby Dancing To Prince
Joel Hruska / Ars Technica:
Malware authors turn to EULAs to protect their work
Discussion: The Register and Slashdot
Wendy Tanaka / Forbes:
Microsoft's Hostile Play
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
MySpace wins suit against ‘spam king’
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Mukund Mohan / Best Engaging Communities:
The new barriers to adoption for your startup
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“Top Tech Bloggers Define Web 2.0″
Electronista:
3GHz iMac's CPU overclocked, not next-gen
Brian Steinberg / AdAge:
The End of Network News as We Know It?
Nathan McFeters / Zero Day:
Developers at fault? …
Discussion: TG Daily
Erica Ogg / CNET News.com:
Lenovo's 11-inch IdeaPad now available
Discussion: Gizmodo and TechSpot
Ben Kunz / Business Week:
The Real Threat to Google
 

 
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