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10:00 AM ET, July 26, 2007

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Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Business.com Sold To RH Donnelley; Beating DJ, NYT and News Corp; Price Around $350 Million  —  Business.com, the Santa Monica-based business info, directory and search site, has been sold to R.H. Donnelley (NYSE:RHD), the yellow pages and local search firm, paidContent.org has learned …
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Dennis K. Berman / Wall Street Journal:
Master of Domain: Business.com Gets Big Payday, Again
Discussion: TechCrunch and Ask Enquiro
Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:
MySpace Looking for the Next "Prom Queen"  —  MySpace had a great deal of success with their short form webisode, "Prom Queen".  The heavily hyped ode to teenage drama drew over 15 million streams during its run and is gearing up for another season.  MySpace is looking to take the format to the streets …
Discussion: Off On A Tangent
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Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
MySpace's Original Content Push: Foil Against Facebook?  —  Read the post below first for the context, and then this: one thing that seems to be happening is that MySpace is now going full steam ahead into becoming a conduit for original and other kinds of content, perhaps as a way to attract new users …
Discussion: alarm:clock
Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
MySpace Looking for TV Pilots
Apple:
Apple Reports Third Quarter Results  —  Record June Quarter Revenue and Profit  —  Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2007 third quarter ended June 30, 2007.  The Company posted revenue of $5.41 billion and net quarterly profit of $818 million, or $.92 per diluted share.
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Laurie J. Flynn / New York Times:   Apple Profit Soars 73% as Sales Rise
Robin Linden / Official Linden Blog:
Wagering In Second Life: New Policy  —  [UPDATE: Wednesday, July 25 4:47PM PDT] For those of you who find logging into the Knowledge Base to be sort of kludgy (and I know it is — we'll find a better way!), I've pasted the text of the policy and FAQ below.  —  Several months ago we discussed …
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:   Second Life Bans Gambling Following FBI Investigation
Gary Gentile / Associated Press:
Target to Promote Blu-Ray DVD Format  —  LOS ANGELES -  —  Target Corp., the nation's second-largest retailer, will start selling a Sony Blu-ray high-definition DVD player during the critical holiday shopping period and feature the player along with Blu-ray discs in store displays, dealing a potential blow to the rival HD DVD format.
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PR Newswire:
Xbox 360 HD DVD Player Moves to $179, Adds Five Free HD DVDs
Discussion: Engadget, Inquirer and Gizmodo
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Syndication Wars 2007: Atom's Time is Nigh, With Google on its Side  —  Tim Bray announced today on his blog that the Atom Publishing Protocol, a way to create and update Web resources, is "done".  He wrote: … What does that mean in english?  Basically that the Atom Publishing Protocol is almost finished.
Discussion: Paul Mooney and The RSS Blog
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IETF Home Page:   Protocol Action: 'The Atom Publishing Protocol' to Proposed Standard
Jonathan Fildes / BBC:
Home cells signal mobile change  —  Standing in the corner of the room; being exiled to the bottom of the garden; or teetering precariously on a chair.  —  People will go to extraordinary lengths to find that elusive one bar of signal that will allow them to make a mobile phone call.
Xssniper / Billy (BK) Rios:
Remote Command Execution in FireFox et al  —  Apparently this flaw affects Firefox users that also have IE7 (with full security patches) on their system.  You can read about the details HERE.  So it seems once again... as my first post (HERE) about URI handling issues stated.... IE PWNS Firefox.....
Discussion: The Mozilla Blog
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Robert McMillan / PC World:
Researcher Publishes Attack Code for Mozilla Flaw
Discussion: The Register and Mashable!
Aussiewebmaster / Search Engine Watch:
Click Quality Council Holds First Steering Committee Meeting  —  Kevin Embry, of Click Forensics, headed the first Click Quality Council Steering Committee meeting today.  With over 20 people in attendance to this webinar meeting, Shuman Ghosemajumder, Business Product Manager for Trust and Safety at Google …
Discussion: Search Engine Land
Microsoft:
Microsoft and Digg Team Up in Advertising Syndication Agreement  —  Microsoft to manage Digg's advertising inventory as Digg continues on strong growth path.  —  Digg Inc. and Microsoft Corp. today announced an agreement in which the two companies will collaborate to bring relevant advertising …
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Kevin Rose / Digg the Blog:
Digg: New ad provider
Agence France Presse:
Humans narrowly beat computer in poker battle  —  Two professional poker players narrowly beat a computer late Tuesday after four tense rounds that scientists called the world's first man-versus-machine poker championship.  —  Phil Laak and Ali Eslami, two poker players from Los Angeles ranked …
Discussion: DailyTech and MSNBC
Peter Rip / EarlyStageVC:
The Teqlo Adventure  —  Few VCs admit to their misfires, though misses are more common in this business than hits.  One of the reasons I write this blog is to add some transparency to an all too opaque business of private equity.  It has been a while since I talked about Teqlo.com here.
Discussion: StartupSquad.com
Frank Caron / Opposable Thumbs:
EA and Microsoft launch dynamic in-game advertising system  —  With the recent swap of Peter Moore and Don Mattrick between Microsoft and EA, there has been much speculation about the relationship between the two industry giants.  Likely to contribute to that speculation is an announcement today …
Olga Kharif / Business Week:
The Mobile TV Wars  —  Qualcomm's MediaFlo and MobiTV are set to duke it out in the battle for this emerging business  —  The mobile TV shakeout has begun: Modeo, a subsidiary of cellular tower operator Crown Castle International (CCI), has shut down its one broadcast network in the New York City area …
Discussion: The Register
Sharon Gaudin / InformationWeek:
Storm Worm Erupts Into Worst Virus Attack In 2 Years  —  Storm worm authors are blasting the Internet with two types of attacks, and both are aimed at building up their botnet.  —  The Storm worm authors are waging a multi-pronged attack and generating the largest virus attack some researchers say they've seen in two years.
Discussion: TechBlog and digg
 
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Inquirer:
Gizmo will tell you when you've lost your phone
Discussion: Gizmodo
Associated Press:
Japanese couple sue Sony, Apple, in alleged defective battery accident
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
Judge unimpressed by ConnectU's case against Facebook
Jeff / ALPHABET CITY:
Life During Wartime - Working at Rockstar Games
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Deep packet inspection meets 'Net neutrality, CALEA
Josh Catone / Read/WriteWeb:
37Signals Relaunches Backpack Organizational Tool
Discussion: Rev2.org and Mashable!
Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
Page Views And CPMs Are Suppressing Online Advertising Growth and Innovation
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Search Suggestions On Steroids: Yahoo Search Assist
 Earlier Items: 
Amol Sharma / Wall Street Journal:
Verizon Wireless Offers Google Olive Branch in FCC Auction
Ben Kuchera / Ars Technica:
Investors look for the "Holy Grail" of casual gaming
Discussion: Raph's Website
Carlos Grande / Financial Times:
ComScore refines web metrics system
Associated Press:
Toshiba laptops get wireless dock
Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:
AdPinion: Vote for the Ads You Want
Shawn / The Pownce Blog:
Coming Soon: The Pownce Public API
Matthew Boyle / Fortune:
A CEO who got his job on Craigslist
Mary Madden / Pew Internet:
Online Video: 57% of internet users have watched videos online …
 

 
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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Disney board members are exploring fresh candidates in their search for a successor to Bob Iger, including EA CEO Andrew Wilson

Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Nicholas Carlson unveils Dynamo, a video-focused company that aims to make “cinematic” stories, and raised $3.4M from Henry Blodget, Jessica Lessin, and others

Lily Ford / The Hollywood Reporter:
Gary Lineker plans to step down from soccer show Match of the Day after 26 years, but extends his BBC Sport contract; he is the BBC's highest-paid presenter

 
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