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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
How Low Will Online Ads Go?  Lower, Says J.P. Morgan.  Very, Very Low, Says Gawker's Nick Denton  —  A year ago, the conventional wisdom said that the online advertising market would still grow in an economic slump because online ads were cheaper and more effective.  —  And they are.
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Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
Ad Net Rates Dropped 11% In The Third Quarter  —  The average amount advertisers pay publishers to display their ads one thousand times — CPMs — dropped 11 percent from Q2 to Q3 across the 307 ad networks and 1,300 publishers that ad-optimizing firm The Rubicon Project calls clients.
Business Wire:
Amazon Announces Beginning of Multi-Year Frustration-Free Packaging Initiative  —  Amazon.com has launched “Frustration-Free Packaging,” a new initiative designed to make it easier for customers to liberate products from their packages.  Amazon is focusing first on two kinds of items …
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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Amazon takes on “wrap rage” with packaging initiative  —  Down with obnoxious packaging that takes longer to free from the ten thousand twistie ties than it took to arrive at your house in the first place!  Everyone has experienced this kind of frustration with items ranging from kids' toys …
Discussion: Andrea on Amazon … and Crave
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Bernard Lunn / ReadWriteWeb:
Salesforce.com Says Hello World  —  Salesforce.com was founded less than 10 years ago, in March 1999.  This is hard to remember when you walk into the Dreamforce event at the Moscone and see all the companies, both large and small, proclaiming that they are part of their ecosystem.
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Joel Hruska / Ars Technica:
Circuit City in fight for survival, to close 155 stores  —  Circuit has announced that it intends to close some 155 of its 721 US outlets in a desperate move to staunch the flow of red ink from the company's coffers.  The announcement comes as no surprise—the company lost $162.7 million …
Discussion: Tech Trader Daily
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Apple Slashes iPhone Production, Says Chip Analyst (AAPL)  —  Is demand slowing for Apple's (AAPL) red-hot iPhone 3G?  —  Apple has cut its calendar Q4 iPhone production plans significantly more than originally estimated, according to a report by Friedman Billings Ramsey analyst Craig Berger.
Discussion: Reuters, MacRumors and MacBlogz
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Yahoo Media's Scott Moore and Al Warms to Depart This Week  —  Aside from upcoming layoffs, it seemed as if Yahoo had stanched the flow of major execs from the company.  —  Not so, it seems, as several sources with knowledge of the situation confirm that the two top execs …
Kelly Hodgkins / Boy Genius Report:
Verizon Wireless kills Pay as You Go data plans, data plans now mandatory  —  This has been rumored to be coming but VZW E dropped the bomb on us all by leaking a Verizon Wireless document detailing some drastic changes to Verizon's data plans.  Starting November 14th, 2008 …
James Sherwood / The Register:
Motorola legal tie to pull pricey Aura phone off eBay  —  Exclusive Once you've grown tired of your mobile phone then it's your prerogative to flog it on eBay, right?  Not if you buy Motorola's upcoming Aura phone, because the firm's penned a contract to prevent secondhand sales.
Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Reunion.com and Wink merge to form new people search site  —  Reunion.com, a social network of sorts that aggregates data about you, is merging with people-focused search engine Wink.  The two companies will relaunch as a single, branded people search service early next year.
Discussion: GigaOM and Technology Live
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Dash Charts a New Course, Cuts 50 Jobs  —  The credit crunch and the subsequent economic slowdown has everyone — from large corporations to individuals — reassessing their fiscal future, and many are taking drastic actions.  The latest moves from the world of Silicon Valley startups comes …
Abbey Klaassen / AdAge:
Kindle Offers Glimpse of ROI on Oprah  —  Nod From Talk Queen Causes a Surge in Web Traffic  —  NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Since Amazon launched the Kindle, its electronic reader, a year ago, it has created a swarm of dedicated customer advocates.  But on Oct. 24 it snagged the most important evangelist …
John Herrman / Gizmodo:
New MacBooks Disable Pwnage Tool, Open Second Front in War on Jailbreaking  —  It's a given that each firmware update for the iPhone and iPod Touch will seal up exploits used by the Dev Team to ‘Pwn’ the devices, but nobody expected the new MacBooks to present a problem for would-be Jailbreakers.
Discussion: iPhone Buzz and PMP Today
Simon Sage / IntoMobile:
Verizon BlackBerry Storm site updated, treasure hunt announced  —  The BlackBerry Storm notification page set up by Verizon back during the announcement has received a significant overhaul, showing off not only specs and 360°-worth of pictures, but also something of a treasure hunt from November 6th. to the 15th.
John Oates / The Register:
Virgin sacks the Facebook 13, BA customers stink  —  Social networking for fun and P45s  —  Virgin Atlantic has sacked the thirteen staff who labelled customers “chavs” and criticised the maintenance record of the airline's fleet of Boeing 747s which fly from Gatwick.
Discussion: FaceReviews and Pulse 2.0
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft confirms MinWin is in Windows 7, after all  —  MinWin — the core of the Windows operating system — is, indeed, in Windows 7.  It's just not part of it in the way many people (including yours truly) initially assumed.  —  Technical Fellow Mark Russinovich, who detailed via …
Discussion: OSNews, CrunchGear and Download Squad
Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Irrepressible widget-maker RockYou aims at Asia, raises $17M  —  RockYou, a company that started out two years ago making simple slideshow widgets for MySpace, and more recently applications on Facebook and other rival social networks, is now invading Asia.  —  It has taken on strategic funding …
Cherise Fong / CNN:
Internetting every thing, everywhere, all the time  —  (CNN) — It's called “The Internet of Things” — at least for now.  It refers to an imminent world where physical objects and beings, as well as virtual data and environments, all live and interact with each other in the same space and time.
Noam Cohen / New York Times:
Censorship, or What Really Weirds Out Weird Al  —  Visitors to MTV's new online music video site can listen to songs with plenty of crass and vulgar lyrics, but may be surprised to find that certain other language had once been deemed too nasty for broadcast — that is, the names …
David Adewumi / VentureBeat:
Weebly scores 1 million users, reaches profitability  —  Weebly, an AJAX-based drag and drop web page creator, today announces it has reached a million registered users — and perhaps more importantly — that the three-year-old company is now profitable.  —  The San Francisco …
 
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Disney Should Buy Electronic Arts, WSJ Asserts
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John Musser / ProgrammableWeb:
1,000 Web APIs  —  Last week ProgrammableWeb crossed …
Justin Berka / Infinite Loop:
Class action suit filed over PowerBook G4 memory slots
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New York Times:
Campaigns in a Web 2.0 World
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Sensis concedes defeat to Google
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Yahoo News Is Bracing for a Day of Heavy Traffic
Ted Dziuba / The Register:
What Ray Ozzie didn't tell you about Microsoft Azure
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Ryan Tate / Gawker:
Times Said Shopping About.com
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
John McCain and Barack Obama Talk Tech
Jessica Guynn / Los Angeles Times:
MTV Networks in deal to monetize uploaded videos
 

 
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Ofcom rules that five GB News programs presented by Conservative politicians have broken its due impartiality rules and puts the channel “on notice”

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