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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Digg's Sorry Revenue Stream, And Rumors Of An Experimental Ad Product — So Business Week gets their hands on Digg's financials and reports that the company had 2007 revenues of $4.8 million and losses of $2.8 million. The first three quarters of 2008 Digg had revenues of $6.4 million and losses of $4 million.
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Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
Digg's Miserable Business — BusinessWeek got ahold of social news site Digg's financials. — For a site that gets as much traffic as Digg.com does — 22.6 million monthly uniques, according to Quantcast — the numbers are gruesome: — Last year the company lost $2.8 million on $4.8 million of revenue
Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson / Financial Times:
Warner Music pulls out of YouTube licensing deal — Warner Music, one of the first media companies to strike a licensing deal with YouTube, has demanded that the Google-owned site pull down all videos from its artists and songwriters, in a move affecting millions of pieces of professional and user-generated content.
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Warner Music Group Disappearing From YouTube: Both Sides Take Credit — Warner Music Group's videos are disappearing from YouTube. The move to take down the videos started early Saturday morning. It's a result of a breakdown in negotiations between Google and the music label over a licensing deal, which was set to expire soon.
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Huffington Post Blasted For Stealing Content — The Huffington Post's news aggregation business drives enormous traffic to the third-party sites its editors link to (including, occasionally, this one). The Huffington Post also often excerpts liberally from third-party sites' stories and uses …
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Harry McCracken / Technologizer:
The Wide (and Weird) World of Two-Screen Laptops — Lenovo's upcoming ThinkPad W700 mobile workstations are loaded with high-end features, including Intel Core 2 Quad CPUs and Nvidia Quadro Express graphics, RAID storage, and built-in Wacom pen tablets. But one feature is as close …
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Jason Chen / Gizmodo:
Flash For iPhone Comes Via Jailbroken iMobileCinema App — iMobileCinema is a currently buggy app for jailbroken iPhones that works “most of the time” on 2.x iPhone firmware, giving you flash support in sites like YouTube. It kinda works. — Just add this to your sources d.imobilecinema.com in Cydia and install iMobileCinema.
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Prince McLean / AppleInsider:
Future iPhones to wield OpenCL acceleration — Imagination Technologies has posted a series of job openings for OpenCL engineers, indicating that the open, general purpose GPU parallelism technology Apple spearheaded for use in Mac OS X Snow Leopard is destined to also play a significant role …
Dan Nosowitz / Gizmodo:
Nokia E63 Available for Pre-Order for $500 — Amazon is now listing Nokia's BlackBerry-ish QWERTY E63 phone as available for pre-order. The unlocked 3G phone can be reserved for $500, though there's no word on release date. — The E63, based on the E71, already dropped in Europe …
Reuters:
China blocks Internet access to New York Times — BEIJING (Reuters) - China, widely criticized for its censorship of the media, this week blocked access to The New York Times, the newspaper said on Saturday. — When computer users in cities like Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou tried …
Adrian Covert / Gizmodo:
Hands On With The Intel Convertible Classmate — After playing with a prototype of Intel's Convertible Classmate, it more or less confirmed what I had suspected: there are some neat ideas at play, but there's a reason why it's aimed at schools. — From the outset, Intel's goal …
Jake Coyle / Associated Press:
On the Net: Hulu is Web site of the year — In the Wild West that is online video, Hulu.com has proven to be a trailblazing answer to how professional content can thrive on the Web. — It's this year's pick for Web site of the year. — “This is period of great experimentation in regard to media …
comScore:
comScore Releases November 2008 U.S. Search Engine Rankings — comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. In November 2008, Americans conducted 12.3 billion core searches …
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