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Ed Bott / ZDNet:

Embrace, extend, extinguish: How Google crushed and abandoned the RSS industry — Summary: Most of the commentary I've read so far about the loss of Google Reader has been about its use as an RSS client. But that's a red herring. The real victims were companies that had planned in 2005 and 2006 to build RSS sync engines.

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In symbolic vote, Senate signals support for letting states collect taxes on Internet sales — WASHINGTON - Advocates of an effort to help states collect taxes on Internet sales won a symbolic but important victory Friday as the Senate signaled solid bipartisan support for the proposal.

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