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• Apple buys Lala. Can any music startup eke out a return for investors?

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 775
  So Apple did the deed. It bought streaming music startup Lala. AllThingsD’s Peter Kafka says it was done at a valuation reflecting Warner Music Group’s writedown earlier this spring, which means investors are lucky to get 50 cents on the dollar. The New York Times also reported that the sale was prompted by ...
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• Report: Apple in talks to buy Lala to face a new streaming world

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 775
  Apple is reportedly in talks to buy music streaming service Lala for an undisclosed amount, according to Bloomberg. As emerging competitors like Spotify try to scale a revenue model for music that places the emphasis on access to songs, rather than outright ownership, Apple needs a way to defend the breakthroughs it ...
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• Google acquires AppJet. Maybe Wave will become usable now

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 775
  AppJet’s EtherPad collaborative browser-based word processor is, many people say, much easier to figure out and use than Google Docs , with a much more intuitive, attractive user interface. Talk is cheap, but Y Combinator-funded AppJet, founded by former Google employees, has proven itself by getting a small ...
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• Bing goes down, jeopardizing newfound search market share

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 775
  So I tried experimenting today. I switched the default search engine in my web browser to Bing to use it for a month straight. I’ve used Bing or I’ve “Bing-ed” before, but I wanted to see what would happen if I made it more of a regular habit. Lo and behold, it failed. Bing went down for at least a full 30 ...
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• Twitter debuts new mobile page for all those users avoiding apps

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 775
  Twitter just launched a new mobile website, optimized for users who don’t want to tweet from special apps like Tweetie or Twidroid. The company found that plenty of people were still accessing its old Web site when tweeting from their phones, so Twitter revamped the old site http://m.twitter.com for them. ...
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• Widgets startup Clearspring puts all its eggs in AddThis, kills Launchpad

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 775
  Clearspring, a startup that raised $35 million during the widgets craze nearly two years ago, is putting one of its widgets, Launchpad, to bed and focusing all its energy on another it acquired a year ago , called AddThis. (It’s the little widget pictured below). “We bought the company in 2008 with the vision ...
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• VentureBeat DEMO party nixes Rock Band for real rock band

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 775
  This clip from last night’s DEMO Alumni party at Mighty captures beret-capped Wall Street Journal tech biz reporter Don Clark — one of the most influential journalists in the Valley — at his other gig as a blues-rock guitarist and singer. Don’s got tone, as guitar players say. A few other folks took the stage ...
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• Comcast / NBC merger’s critics aren’t convincing

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 775
  Comcast, America’s largest cable TV operator and Internet provider, agreed earlier today to take majority ownership of NBC Universal away from super-conglomerate GE, the biggest company in the world. The Wall Street Journal calls the sale “ a complex deal ” valued at $30 billion and then some. (How complex? As ...
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• How Facebook is changing the rules of online retail

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 775
  The business model for online retailers is being turned on its head. It used to be that consumers would visit individual company websites to shop. But now companies are seeking out consumers where they spend most of their time: on Facebook. Facebook associate Annie Ta detailed how this is all working in a post on ...
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• Google CEO Schmidt tries to quell brouhaha over news aggregation

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 775
  After News Corp.’s Rupert Murdoch paraded around in November threatening to de-index his properties from Google, this week has become the search giant’s turn to respond. Google took several steps to manage its public image this week. Most of these are pretty minor concessions from the company’s standpoint: It ...
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• Chrome OS: Rise of the lean, mean netbook

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 775
  After Google’s Chrome OS Open Source announcement two weeks ago, it’s looking like Google is out to change the world again — this time by dominating operating systems. With Google and its device partners gearing up to drop the first Chrome OS netbooks on us by year’s end, 2010 may well be called the Year of ...
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• Group promoting climate skepticism has extensive ties to Exxon-Mobil

  
  Raw Story — Authority: 815
  A group promoting skepticism over widely-accredited climate change science has a web of connections to influential oil giant Exxon-Mobil, Raw Story has found. The organization is called the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), apparently named after the UN coalition International Panel on ...
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• First, Facebook and Yahoo hook up. Now Twitter and Google do the same.

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 775
  Who will be the web’s primary identity platform? Google’s trying to stay in the fight by integrating Twitter across its 9 million Friend Connect web sites. That means you can log into a Google Friend Connect site with your Twitter profile and share that new membership with your friends and along with other ...
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• 3 ways Bing is ahead of Google

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 775
  This morning, Microsoft employees demonstrated a long list of enhancements to their Bing search engine at a press event at the company’s San Francisco office. That office is next door to the city’s newest, splashiest, most expensive shopping center, the Westfield, and after sitting through the Bing demo, I’m ...
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• Bing, Google maps both get geolocated tweets: Here come the mashups

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 775
  The Bing-Google beauty contest continues today as both search engines got geolocated tweets for maps. This is a no-brainer with Twitter’s recently released location application programming interface, but who does it better? Bing wins points for aesthetics. There’s a button to update tweets directly on the page, ...
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• Yahoo hands social features to Facebook in new deal

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 775
  Yahoo announced that it is integrating Facebook Connect across its properties today, giving the world’s biggest social network a prominent stage for showing how its social graph can interact with content. Yahoo is putting Connect on mail, news, sports and finance, letting users show how their friends are using ...
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• HipLogic raises $7 million to make feature phones smarter

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 775
  HipLogic, a company that brings features and apps from smartphones to regular feature phones, just raised $7 million in a second round of financing with Bay Partners as the lead investor. Stage 1 Ventures, Benchmark Capital and Accrue Sports and Entertainment Ventures also participated in the round. “The top ...
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• What Bizo will do with its $6M second round

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 775
  Bizo CEO Russell Glass doesn’t want you to see his clients’ ads. Unless you’re a top-level exec whose browser cookie says you have lots of money and like to spend it. “We are putting 100% of the impressions in front of execs,” Glass told me on the phone while discussing the company’s second round of ...
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• Groupon gets $30M more for mass coupons

  
  VentureBeat — Authority: 775
  Groupon , a service that uses “collective buying power” to offer shopping deals, has added more funding in a big way with a new $30 million round led by Accel Partners . Here’s how it works: Groupon offers a single big deal of the day like half-off wine tasting for two in Napa. But they only happen if enough ...
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• Switching to Laptops Full Time and Working Mostly Online

  
  Austin Real Estate Blog — Authority: 116
  Sylvia and I have now migrated from desktop computers to full-time laptops. I was a bit worried about doing this, giving up nice big monitors for smaller laptop screens, but so far it’s working out really well and neither of us are noticing any impairment or difference in our ability to accomplish computer related ...
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