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Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Google Deal Said to Bring U.S. Scrutiny — The Federal Trade Commission has opened a preliminary antitrust investigation into Google's planned $3.1 billion purchase of the online advertising company DoubleClick, an industry executive briefed on the agency's plans said yesterday.
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
F.T.C. Eyes Antitrust Action in Google DoubleClick Acquisition — In developing news, the NY Times is reporting that The Federal Trade Commission has "opened a preliminary antitrust investigation into Google's planned $3.1 billion purchase of the online advertising company DoubleClick".
San Francisco Chronicle:
Getting in the game at Microsoft — Robbie Bach's job is to make software giant's entertainment division profitable — For all the challenges Microsoft Corp. faces as it moves into the future, the Redmond, Wash., software giant remains a formidable money machine.
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TechBlog, Engadget, Digital Media Wire, DailyTech, TechSpot News, I4U News, Digital Daily, MobileWhack, Neowin.net and Paul Thurrott's Internet Nexus
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Ivan Pope / Vecosys:
Working with Facebook f8: you are not in control of your access — Facebook launched their Developer API last week to a lot of acclaim. Several commentators jumped in with the hyperbole, claiming that this platform, with its 20 million, and growing, users, would be a fine space in which to build a business.
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Marc Canter / Marc's Voice:
Facebook's platform - or "what I did for my summer vacation" — I'm about to take my family to Europe for the summer. We'll start off in Amsterdam at 'the Next Web' conference and eventually end up in Trieste, using it as a base for European activity this summer. I'll even jump over to India for Gaurav's wedding.
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Attention Ticker Particls Enters Public Beta — Attention management ticker Particls from Faraday Media moves from private testing to a full public beta launch today. — Particls is an alerts platform that conveys attention data. Particls evaluates incoming information and ranks it based on "Personal Relevance".
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Phil Butler / Read/WriteWeb:
Particls Launches Advanced Alerts Platform — Today Particls, billed by many as an RSS feed manipulator/organizer, came out of invitation-only testing with a host of tools for users. Particls essentially serves as a proportioning alert filter that notifies the user via news ticker …
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Brier Dudley / Seattle Times:
Leading the charge on iPhone — Brace yourself for another tsunami of hype. — May's craze was "American Idol." June's will be the Apple iPhone, which is going on sale in a few weeks. As with "Idol," the iPhone show has lots of Seattle connections. — The season begins Wednesday …
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life:
Doing Evil to the Internet: Google and Yahoo! Promote Domain Squatting — Recently the mainstream media has been running profiles on people who have built businesses worth hundreds of millions of dollars by buying lots of Internet domain names then filling them with Google ads.
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PC World:
Computer Glitch Tangles Japanese Flights — Hundreds of All Nippon Airways flights were cancelled or delayed Sunday because of computer error. — Hundreds of domestic flights in Japan were cancelled or delayed on Sunday as a result of a glitch in the computer system of All Nippon Airways Co. Ltd.
Muhammad Saleem / Pronet Advertising:
The Difference Between Marketing, PR, Advertising, and Branding — Ads of the World is an online archive of the best and most interesting advertisements from across the world. Today I came across an advertisement on their site that uses four simple pictures to explain to you the difference …
Allison Randal / O'Reilly Radar:
Beyond the Browser — At OSBC last week I gave a Radar talk on current technology trends. The trend of moving traditional desktop applications to massively networked, Web 2.0 online applications like Google Docs is well-known. The problem is, a web browser is a terribly limited platform …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
In Africa, Money not necessary for mobile banking — Necessity, they say is the mother of invention. It couldn't be more true in case of Africa, where pre-paid airtime is fast becoming the 'virtual' currency for Pan-African trade, overcoming conventional currency exchange and lack of banking infrastructure.
Alan Reiter / Reiter's Camera Phone Report:
Nokia N95 + PhotoShow: Vietnam Veterans Memorial 2007 tribute — Three times during the week I went to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. to take photos (see above) with the five megapixel Nokia N95 that I received courtesy of Nokia as part of the Nokia Bloggers program.
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
New: Google Image Search Categories — Last week a Google engineer told us "The next big thing for image search would be the ability to search based on visual concepts, such as a picture of a house on a mountain with a river in front of it." And now, Google Images allows you to restrict …
