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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Breaking: Yahoo Acquires Zimbra For $350 million in Cash — Yahoo will announce the acquisition of open source online/offline office suite Zimbra this evening, we just heard through a very solid source. The price: $350 million, in cash, confirmed. — Our coverage of Zimbra goes back to 2005.
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Yahoo Buys Zimbra for $350 Million — Yahoo is set to make yet another acquisition-this time of white-label open-source email provider Zimbra. Sources close to the deal said that the Internet portal will pay $350 million, considerably upwards of its most recent valuation, for the email and calendar provider.
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VentureBeat, paidContent.org, Between the Lines, GigaOM, BloggingStocks and Practical Blogging
Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
Follow the TechCrunch40 Conference Online — Couldn't snag a ticket to this year's TechCrunch40 conference? Head on over to techcrunch40.com to follow the action online. — We've put together a fully-featured website for the event, which starts this morning and continues through Tuesday evening.
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
TechCrunch 40 Session 1: Search & Discovery — Session one as follows, including our live notes. — Powerset — Powerset is a natural language search engine that can use everyday phrases and grammer to conduct more accruate web searches by understanding the search query and the pages it indexes.
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Business Wire:
AOL Realigns Business, Unveils Global Integrated Advertising Platform — The New Entity, Platform A, Will Offer Advertisers Access to the Largest Internet-wide Display Advertising Network and Most Sophisticated Tools; Builds on Success of Advertising.com and Integrates TACODA, Third Screen Media, Lightningcast and ADTECH
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Cynthia Brumfield / IP Democracy:AOL, Which Made "Dulles" A Town, Heads to NYC
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InfoWorld
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
TechCrunch 40 Session 2: Mobile & Communications — We're live blogging each session, adding to the summary of each company direct from the floor of TechCrunch 40. Click Refresh to view. — Cubic Telecom — Cubic Telecom is creating a global Mobile Virtual Network (MVNo).
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
TC40: Mobile and Communications — Next up at TechCrunch 40 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, where connectivity is a crap shoot, is a panel on mobile and communications companies. — The judges are the same as the last panel: Wired's Chris Anderson, Netscape founder Mark Andreessen …
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:Cubic Telecom hopes to make global roaming reasonable
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BBC:
Microsoft loses anti-trust appeal — Microsoft has lost its appeal against a record 497m euro (£343m; $690m) fine imposed by the European Commission in a long-running competition dispute. — The European Court of First Instance upheld the ruling that Microsoft had abused its dominant market position.
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Good Morning Silicon Valley, Engadget, Download Squad, Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog, WebProNews, Microsoft, Reuters, Simple Thoughts, How To Split An Atom, Hardware 2.0, Between the Lines, CyberNet Technology News, TechBlog, AccMan Pro, Microsoft News Tracker, TechSpot News, The Tech Report and Mashable!
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Todd Bishop / Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog:Microsoft loses EU ruling: Excerpts, links and video
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WSJ.com, Los Angeles Times, Ars Technica, paidContent.org, The Register, JD on EP and TechCrunch UK
Yahoo! News:
China man dies after three-day Internet session — China man dies after three-day Internet session — BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese man dropped dead after playing Internet games for three consecutive days, state media said on Monday as China seeks to wean Internet addicts offline.
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Game | Life
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Frank Caron / Opposable Thumbs:When gamers go too far: 30 year old man dies from "gaming binge"
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Download Squad
Kelly Fiveash / The Register:
Vista attacked by 13-year-old virus — A batch of laptops pre-installed with Windows Vista Home Premium was found to have been infected with a 13-year-old boot sector virus. — Those of you with a long memory will vividly recall the year 1994: Nirvana's lead singer Kurt Cobain died …
Sprint:
Sprint Customers in Select Areas of Denver and Indianapolis Get AIRAVE for Enhanced In-Home Coverage and Unlimited Calling — Sprint introduces industry-first femtocell that works with any Sprint phone for convenient, reliable wireless use at home — Media Contacts: — Emmy Anderson, Sprint, 913-707-0618
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Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Has smart money abandoned U.S. Web 2.0 companies? — Venture capitalists invested about six percent more into Web 2.0 companies in the first half of 2007, but the increase was attributable to more deals in Europe and Israel. — Notably, early investors in Web 2.0 slowed their pace.
Alex Veiga / Associated Press:
Free online music service launches — LOS ANGELES - SpiralFrog.com, an ad-supported Web site that allows visitors to download music and videos free of charge, was scheduled to launch Monday in the U.S. and Canada after months of "beta" testing. — The music service, which has arranged …
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:SpiralFrog's "free" music download service goes live
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Bill Ray / The Register:
Nokia gets into mobile advertising — Nokia continues its path towards being a consumer-service provider with its acquisition of Enpocket, a specialist in the delivery of targeted mobile advertising. — Enpocket is a leader in mobile advertising, using technologies such as MMS, WAP …
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NEWS.com.au:
Iran blocks and then unblocks Google — Decrease Increase - — From correspondents in Tehran — IRAN has unblocked access to the Google search engine and its Gmail email service after briefly filtering them owing to an "error", the Fars news agency reported.
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Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Leaked Media Defender e-mails reveal secret government project — Peer-to-peer (P2P) poisoning company MediaDefender suffered an embarrassing leak this weekend, when almost 700MB of internal company e-mail was distributed on the Internet via BitTorrent. The e-mails reveal many aspects …
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NewTeeVee, p2pnet, BetaNews, Contentinople, DailyTech, The Patry Copyright Blog, Techdirt and Threat Level
Andrew / Treonauts:
Treo 500 Unboxed — As promised Palm has sent me a brand new Treo 500 to review and I have to admit that I have not had the opportunity to be this excited about a new Treo in quite a while - it's a very slick, slim and light smartphone that feels absolutely great in your hands …
Steve Guttenberg / Crave: The gadget blog:
A simple plan to slash the price of tunes for your iPod — I'm back at my favorite record store and I see a guy approach the owner with a proposition: "I want to buy music to put it on my iPod and then resell the disc to you." Intrigued, I jumped into the conversation, egging the guy on.
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