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Abbey Klaassen / AdAge:
Avenue A Deal Could Give WPP, Microsoft What They Really Want — But Estimated $800 Million Is a Far Cry From What Microsoft Paid — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Almost six months after the companies started talking, WPP and Microsoft have reopened talks that could have the software company unloading Avenue A/Razorfish.
Owen Thomas / Valleywag:
Google's food perks on the chopping block — The image associated with this post is best viewed using a browser.There's no such thing as a free dinner. A worker at Google tells us the company is taking evening meals off the menu: “Google has drastically cut back their budget on the culinary program.
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Mark Franchetti / Times of London:
Russians dent Google's world domination — How a bunch of young upstarts humbled the search-engine giant — THE Russian mathematician was 24 years old when he first saw a personal computer, one of only a dozen in the whole Soviet Union. That was in 1984.
David Chartier / Ars Technica:
Google: “No Trespassing” signs won't stop Street View — Google has once again managed to stir up debate about the existence of privacy in our highly connected culture as it argues that the “No Trespassing” sign in your front yard is just for show. — Back in April, a Pittsburgh couple sued Google …
Declan McCullagh / CNET News:
Whoops! L.A. Times' 2008 ‘Dewey Defeats Truman’ moment — Excerpt from the Los Angeles Times' Web site on Saturday showing multiple stories prepared in advance, analyzing different Democratic vice-presidential picks. — News flash! Barack Obama has actually chosen his former arch-rival …
Chris Cadelago / San Francisco Chronicle:
Wikimedia pegs future on education, not profit — Google has its Googleplex, Craigslist has a Victorian flat, and the seventh-most-popular Web site in the world has this: a 3,000-square-foot nondescript loft situated in San Francisco's South Park below Interstate 80.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Can You Guess Which Facebook App Is Making A Million Dollars A Month? I Can. — Facebook is a famously difficult place to make money. Despite the popularity of the social network, most ads go for pennies per thousand impressions (CPMs). Even Social Media, a Facebook ad network that is able …
Brian McConnell / GigaOM:
What Obama's Text Message Campaign Reveals — Barack Obama's now-famous text-message announcement of his VP pick reveals something about the candidate that should really worry the Republicans. What it reveals is not that he's a smart technologist. If he was, he would have known …
Fred / A VC:
Sometimes You Just Have To Walk Away — The title of this post is a line in a Damon Gough (aka Badly Drawn Boy) song that I heard on my bike ride this morning. You can click on the black banner at the bottom of the screen and hear it play while you read this.
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Julie Jacobson / CE Pro:
Vudu Debunks Rumors of Demise — The developer of IP-based video on demand just laid off 15-20% of its work force and is changing some product strategies, but Vudu says it is ‘doing very well’ — Rumors of Vudu's demise are greatly exaggerated ... if you believe Vudu.
Iain S Bruce / Scotland Sunday Herald:
Revealed: 8 million victims in the world's biggest cyber heist — EXCLUSIVE: Sunday Herald uncovers theft of data from every guest in 1300 Best Western Hotels in past 12 months — AN INTERNATIONAL criminal gang has pulled off one of the most audacious cyber-crimes ever and stolen …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Don't Post The Evidence Unless It Supports Your Case — For those of you not closely following the drama between social network platform Ning and a popular widget provider called WidgetLaboratory, you can read the background here. On Friday Ning unceremoniously shut down their access to Ning, making all those widgets vanish.
MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
Google finally ready to take Jaiku seriously? — When Google bought Jaiku in October of last year, there was some thought that it would overtake Twitter as the go-to lifestreaming/status update site of choice on the Internet. Instead, Google completely and utterly neglected the service …
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