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• Flying the Digitally-Friendly Skies: Gogo, Google and the Facebook PR Guy in 17D

  
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  So, BoomTown–who cannot be unplugged from the matrix for very long without breaking into a cold sweat–was pretty excited to have free Wi-Fi on my Virgin America flight to Washington, D.C. early this morning. The service from Gogo Inflight Internet is free since earlier this week to January 15, courtesy of Google ...
  2 days ago

• As "Twilight: New Moon" Mania Descends Online, Try "Firelight" Instead

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 734
  Oh dear, just a single week away and Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and every gossip site on the Web is aflame in expectation of the second installment of the young-vampires-in-lust movie series, “Twilight: New Moon.” As pictures of its are-they-or-aren’t-they-holding-hands (um, they are ) stars, Robert Pattinson ...
  2 days ago

• Viral Video: How Much Do I Love Taylor Swift? (Take That, Kanye!)

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 734
  In this ruthlessly funny video–especially for such a sweet-looking young lady–singer Taylor Swift manages to ice pretty much everyone who ever dissed her. And Kanye West’s attention-grabbing antics at the MTV Video Music Awards in September are not the only ones getting a musical smackdown from the 19-year-old, ...
  3 days ago

• Is Google Scary? Not to Silicon Valley, Even at a Party for a Book About How Scary It Could Be!

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 734
  While at a book party for author Ken Auletta in San Francisco last night, BoomTown took the opportunity to ask those gathered whether they were scared or not of Google and its growing power. The Auletta book covers a lot about the search giant, but also drills in on how traditional media and advertising, as well as ...
  3 days ago

• Author Ken Auletta Talks About Google and Its "Lack of Emotional Intelligence"

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 734
  Guess what? Google has too many Spocks and not enough Captain Kirks. That was one of the many interesting insights BoomTown gleaned from a video interview last night–which you can see below–with well-known New Yorker scribe Ken Auletta, who has just written a new book , “Googled: The End of the World as We ...
  3 days ago

• From the Department of Oh No, She Didnt: Whitman Defends eBays Skype Debacle

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 734
  If spinning is an intense political skill, former eBay CEO Meg Whitman is doing her very best at trying to create a silk purse out of a sow’s ear. As Om Malik reports on GigaOm , Whitman–who is trying to nab the Republican gubernatorial nomination for California–told a radio interviewer recently that ...
  4 days ago

• The Judge Was Wrong: RealNetworks RealDVD Appeal Document

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 734
  RealNetworks just lobbed its appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals, in the case revolving around its DVD-copying software, RealDVD. A U.S. District judge had put a preliminary injunction on RealNetworks (RNWK) to stop sales in August and then renewed it in October . In a typical Hollywood move, the Motion Picture ...
  5 days ago

• Viral Video: "2012"–Killer Special Effects…Literally!

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 734
  Hollywood is selling the end times hard this week with the opening of “2012,” a blockbuster-style movie about the last days of the world for humanity. Apparently, we were warned! It’s based on junk theories about how the 5,125-year-long Mayan Long Count calendar ends on Dec. 21, 2012, which can only mean ...
  5 days ago

• TwinkedIn: The Reeses Cup Video of LinkedIns Reid Hoffman and Twitters Biz Stone

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 734
  Guess what? It’s yet another online company going gaga over Twitter integration–this time LinkedIn is announcing a partnership with the microblogging service. Microsoft (MSFT) and Google (GOOG) recently announced various ways they were lacing their various services with Twitter’s feed, mostly around search. ...
  5 days ago

• AOL: Small Layoff Today, a Voluntary Buyout and, Then…the Big One

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 734
  Essentially–although AOL is located in New York and not California, it’s going to be like tremors before the Big One at the online company today, as about 100 employees are laid off. Sources said the cuts, first reported by Valleywag’s Ryan Tate , will be widespread across AOL, even as it inches ever closer to ...
  5 days ago

• Accel Partners Feels Like a Billion Dollars Today…No, Really!

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 734
  Who said the venture capital industry is sucking wind lately? Well, it is–but not today, and especially, not Accel Partners, which sold two of its portfolio start-ups to large public companies for a total of $1.5 billion. That would be the sale of AdMob to search behemoth Google (GOOG) for $750 million in stock ...
  6 days ago

• Google Primer on AdMob Acquisition: We Can Believe We Ate the Whole Thing!

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 734
  Google has a Web page up about today’s acquisition of AdMob for $750 million in stock, which includes the lovely image below of the differences between what the Silicon Valley companies do in the mobile advertising space. Said Google (GOOG) on its site about the purchase : “Mobile advertising is a rapidly ...
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• Google Acquires AdMob for $750 Million in Stock (Plus the Press Release and Video With CEO)

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 734
  Google has acquired AdMob for $750 million, a huge price for an innovative start-up that has pioneered online ads on mobile and now smart phones. BoomTown visited AdMob last fall and posted about how it was likely to eventually be acquired by… Google (GOOG)! (Google has provided a primer on the sale , which ...
  6 days ago

• All Is Forgiven: "Its a Clean Slate," Says Andreessen About Lawsuit-Mad Skype Co-Founders

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 734
  Silicon Valley legend and now VC Marc Andreessen was making the interview rounds after the settlement between the litigation-addled co-founders of Skype and all the various people they were suing was announced this morning . He has been tight-lipped until now, due to the morass of lawsuits. But, as Andreessen told ...
  1 week ago

• Silly Skype Soap Opera Finally Canceled

  
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  The fight for Skype has ended. After weeks of nasty legal sparring , the Internet telephony service’s founders agreed to join the investor group purchasing it from EBay (EBAY) and dropped the lawsuit that had threatened to bollocks the deal. “Skype will be well positioned to move forward under new owners with ...
  1 week ago

• "V" Is Very, Very, Very V-abulous, but Not Online

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 734
  ABC certainly is taking its sweet time in releasing the first episode of “V,” a sci-fi television series that debuted earlier this week on the Web in any substantial way. The network is showing about nine minutes of the redo of the 1980s miniseries about a lizardy alien invasion disguised as a peace mission by ...
  1 week ago

• Meet Drake Meeting Brizzly: A Spanking New ATD Feature

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 734
  Today, All Things Digital debuts a new feature called “Almost Famous” in our Voices section. No, it is not about Kate Hudson and nascent rock stars. Well, you might meet geek rock stars to be. Focused on innovative, interesting or just plain odd start-ups, we thought it was a good way for ATD readers to ...
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• RealNetworks to Lay Off Four Percent of Staff Today

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 734
  The Seattle area is going to get another jobless jolt today, with RealNetworks (RNWK) planning to lay off four percent of its workforce, sources said. That’s a small number–just about 70 people out of its 1,700-person staff–but the move comes on the heels of layoffs of another 800 employees at nearby Microsoft ...
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• I Love the Smell of Settlement in the Morning: Skype Founders Set to Get 10 Percent, Option to Buy Three Percent More and Two Board Seats

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 734
  According to several sources close to the situation, barring any unforeseen delay, a deal to settle the Skype imbroglio is likely to be announced around the time the markets open tomorrow. While the massive agreement is not yet officially signed–which will settle three aggressive lawsuits lobbed by Skype’s ...
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• Sphere Leader Has Exited AOL–But Staying on as "Special" Venture Advisor

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 734
  Tony Conrad, CEO and co-founder of Sphere–the contextually relevant content engine AOL bought in the spring of 2008 for upward of $25 million–left the Time Warner (TWX) online unit last month, several sources have told BoomTown in recent weeks. But, in an effort by AOL’s CEO Tim Armstrong to hold onto ...
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