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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Huffington Post Nabs $25 Million in Funding-Here's a BoomTown Interview With Oak Investment's Fred Harman — The Huffington Post will announce this morning that it has raised $25 million, in a single investment from Oak Investment Partners. — The large round by Oak, which was led by Palo Alto …
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David Kaplan / paidContent.org:Huffington Post Closes $25 Million Third Round; Plans Include ‘Focused Acquisitions’
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Sinead Carew / Reuters:
Clearwire to use “Clear” brand instead of “Xohm” — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Clearwire Corp said on Monday that it would call its high-speed wireless WiMax service “Clear” instead of the “Xohm” brand its venture partner Sprint Nextel has been using. — The new name was announced after Clearwire closed …
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Stuart Cohen / Business Week:
Open Source: The Model Is Broken — The open-source business model that relies solely on support and service revenue streams is failing to meet the expectations of investors — For anyone who hasn't been paying attention to the software industry lately, I have some bad news.
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Brad Stone / New York Times:
Facebook Aims to Extend Its Reach Across the Web — PALO ALTO, Calif. — Facebook, the Internet's largest social network, wants to let you take your friends with you as you travel the Web. But having been burned by privacy concerns in the last year, it plans to keep close tabs on those outings.
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Rick Turoczy / ReadWriteWeb:Facebook Connect Readies for Broader Distribution with Digg and Hulu
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Amy Schatz / Wall Street Journal:
FCC Head Pushes Free Web Plan — Outgoing Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin is pushing for action in December on a plan to offer free, pornography-free wireless Internet service to all Americans, despite objections from the wireless industry and some consumer groups.
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Nokia's touchiest week — We've arrived in Barcelona, Spain for Nokia World, a week where Nokia talks to its top customers. — When we got here a Nokia executive met me and bragged that the Internet has no clue what they will announce this week. I asked “what about the touch screen cell phone that I've seen rumors about?”
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
The Simpsons mocks (m)Apple — Few have been spared the satire of Matt Groening's long running animated sitcom. Last night, The Simpsons took on Apple, or uh, Mapple for a full 6 minutes of lampoonery — a pretty harsh ride at a two-joke per minute pace. It all starts when the Springfield mall gets …
New York Times:
CNN Pitches a Cheaper Wire Service to Newspapers — CNN, in the afterglow of an election season of record ratings for cable news, is elbowing in on a new line of business: catering to financially strained newspapers looking for an alternative to The Associated Press.
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Richard Bennett / The Register:
Bittorrent declares war on VoIP, gamers — The next internet meltdown — Gamers, VoIP and video conference users beware. The leading BitTorrent software authors have declared war on you - and any users wanting to wring high performance out of their networks.
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Lessig Blog:
change.gov set free — Consistent with the values of any “open government,” and with his strong leadership on “free debates” from the very start, the Obama team has modified the copyright notice on change.gov to embrace the freest CC license. — This is great news about a subject that's harder than it seems.
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Mac Internet share hits record 8.82%; Windows drops below 90% — Apple's (AAPL) slice of the Internet pie grew measurably in November as both the Mac and the iPhone hit record numbers in a Net Applications Web survey issued overnight Monday. — At the same time, Microsoft's (MSFT) …
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Sakthi Prasad / Reuters:
Redstone sells Midway Games to ease debt: report — (Reuters) - Media mogul Sumner Redstone has sold his controlling stake in video game company Midway Games Inc (MWY.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) to a private investor to ease his debt load, the Wall Street Journal said.
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Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
More Judges Realizing That Statutory Damages In Copyright Suits Out Of Line — from the bringing-some-sanity-back dept — The heart of Charles Nessons' case against the RIAA is that the copyright law cited to attack file-sharers is unconstitutional due to the ridiculous statutory fines put on copyright infringement.
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Yahoo!:
Yahoo! Reviews A Year in Search — Through Billions of Searches in 2008, People Sought to Make Sense of — the World Around Them, Witnessing a Year of Passionate Politics, Olympic — Records, New Celebrities on the Rise and Market Meltdowns — Today Yahoo! Inc (NASDAQ:YHOO) …
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Linux on the iPhone: penguin poop in Apple's walled garden — An iPhone hacker has successfully ported the open source Linux kernel to Apple's popular mobile device. Although the port is still at a very early stage of development and currently only supports a slim subset of the iPhone's capabilities …
