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Vauhini Vara / Wall Street Journal:
Facebook Opens Its Pages As a Way to Fuel Growth — Facebook Inc. has bucked the Silicon Valley acquisition trend, remaining independent of larger technology companies. Now the social-networking start-up is seeking ways to reach the big leagues on its own.
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Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Facebook Moving to An Open Platform Strategy — So says WSJ, jumping on an upcoming announcement it says will happen Thursday: Facebook will announce a new strategy to let other companies provide their services on special pages within its site, moving beyond its basic social networking service.
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Google, Salesforce.com Weigh Alliance to Battle Microsoft — Internet giant Google Inc. and Salesforce.com Inc., a pioneer in online services for businesses, are discussing an alliance that could help them compete more effectively with Microsoft Corp., according to people familiar with the matter.
Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times:
Equity Firms to Buy Alltel in $27.5 Billion Deal — Alltel, the wireless phone company, agreed last night to be sold to a consortium of private equity firms for $27.5 billion, marking the largest buyout ever in the telecommunications industry. — The consortium includes the Texas Pacific Group …
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Michael Flaherty / Reuters:
TPG, Goldman unit, to buy Alltel in $25 billion deal (Reuters) — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wireless company Alltel Corp. (NYSE:AT - news) said on Sunday it had agreed to be bought by TPG Capital and the buyout arm of Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS - news) for about $25 billion, making …
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Google News: The End of News Indexing As We Know It? — Scotland's Sunday Herald is running a story reporting that Google has secretly reached deals with several large UK news groups to formally license content for Google News. — The report notes that the deals are being kept secret …
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Techdirt, Deep Jive Interests, Mashable!, Open (finds, minds … and Are You Paying Attention?
CBS News:
What If Every Child Had A Laptop? — Lesley Stahl Reports On The Dream And The Difficulties Of Getting A Computer To Every Child — (CBS) Nicholas Negroponte, a professor at MIT, had a dream. In it every child on the planet had his own computer. In that way, he figured …
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BBC:
Wi-Fi: a warning signal — Britain is in the grip of a Wi-Fi revolution with offices, homes and classrooms going wireless - but there is concern the technology could carry health risks. — The Government insists Wi-Fi is safe, but a Panorama investigation shows that radio frequency radiation levels …
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Google to buy Feedburner? — That's what what U.K. blogger and Web 2.0 consultant Sam Sethi is saying, based on a "trusted source." — Chicago's Feedburner places ads at the bottom of RSS feeds, the subscription technology that early adopters use to read blogs and other news.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google May Launch Mobile Service In UK — We've heard from a good source in the mobile industry that Google may be preparing to launch its own branded mobile network in the UK in the next few weeks. If our source is accurate, Google will become a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) via a deal with UK mobile phone company O2.
Eric Knorr / InfoWorld:
Salesforce.com launches SOA in the cloud (InfoWorld) — San Francisco (InfoWorld) - With the announcement of Salesforce SOA, Salesforce.com promises "SOA as a service." That's an awfully grandiose claim as SOA is a business-driven approach to organizing an entire enterprise's software functionality, not any one vendor's technology.
Ellie Gibson / GamesIndustry.biz:
No plans to bring 80GB PS3 to Europe, says Sony — Information on Korean site confirmed — A Sony spokesperson has confirmed to GamesIndustry.biz that an 80GB PlayStation 3 is to go on sale in Korea - but said there are currently no plans to launch the model in Europe.
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Noam Cohen / New York Times:
Link by Link: Firefox and the Anxiety of Growing Pains — IF the open-source software movement were an upstart political campaign, Chris Messina would be one of its community organizers — the young volunteer who decamps to New Hampshire, knocking on doors, putting up signs.
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Kevin Kelleher / GigaOM:
Did Microsoft go lose its head over aQuantive? — I've been trying to find a way to illustrate just how screwy Microsoft's $6 billion bid for aQuantive is, and here it is: For $6 billion in cash, Microsoft could have hired, in a single day, 60,000 engineers and salespeople …
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Windows-Now.com, Scobleizer, Jeremy Toeman's LIVEdigitally, U.S. Securities … and BoomTown
Nick / Rough Type:
Long player — I started reading David Weinberger's new book, Everything Is Miscellaneous, this weekend. I'd been looking forward to it. Weinberger has a supple, curious mind and an easy way with words. Even though I rarely agree with his conclusions, he gets the brain moving - and that's what matters.
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Digital Media Wire, The Obvious?, Publishing 2.0, Smalltalk Tidbits …, howardowens.com and robhyndman.com
