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

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 737
  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 ...
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• Apple Uses "Switchers" Ad to Keeping Smacking Windows 7

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 737
  While sales of Windows 7 are doing well–especially compared to the previous Vista operating, according to many reports–Apple (AAPL) is continuing to slap the Microsoft (MSFT) operating system software around. There were a bunch of mean-spirited “Get a Mac” ads right when Windows 7 was released in late ...
  1 day ago

• The Judge Was Wrong: RealNetworks RealDVD Appeal Document

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 737
  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 ...
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• Viral Video: "2012"–Killer Special Effects…Literally!

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 737
  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 ...
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• TwinkedIn: The Reeses Cup Video of LinkedIns Reid Hoffman and Twitters Biz Stone

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 737
  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. ...
  2 days ago

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

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 737
  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 ...
  2 days ago

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

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 737
  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 ...
  2 days ago

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

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 737
  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: 737
  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 ...
  2 days ago

• Weekend Update 11.07.09—Big Trouble in Little China Edition

  
  Digital Daily — Authority: 681
  Big news often comes in small changes, and Boom Town was all over the little moves that meant big stories this week. Kara covered a massive redesign of the MSN (MSFT) homepage that follows the old car racing mantra turned web design ethos. Add power and lightness. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief when boom Town ...
  4 days ago

• Writers Brawl After Nerds Stop Brawling [Hackfights]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 868
  Youd think tech bloggers would learn from the peacemaking founders of Skype, who just dropped lawsuits holding back the $2.8 billion sale of their former company. Instead the writers are calling one...
  5 days ago

• Writers Brawl After Nerds Stop Brawling

  
  Gawker: valleywag — Authority: 646
  Youd think tech bloggers would learn from the peacemaking founders of Skype, who just dropped lawsuits holding back the $2.8 billion sale of their former company. Instead the writers are calling one another inaccurate, spineless "toddlers." Skype founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom are dropping suits ...
  5 days ago

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

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 737
  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 ...
  5 days ago

• Silly Skype Soap Opera Finally Canceled

  
  Digital Daily — Authority: 681
  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 ...
  5 days ago

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

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 737
  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 ...
  5 days ago

• Meet Drake Meeting Brizzly: A Spanking New ATD Feature

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 737
  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 ...
  6 days ago

• RealDepressing: RealNetworks Latest Layoff Memo

  
  Digital Daily — Authority: 681
  Earlier today, Kara Swisher reported in BoomTown that RealNetworks (RNWK) would sack four percent of its workforce — 70 employees out of its 1,700-person staff. Below, the official internal memo from RealNetworks founder, chairman and CEO, Rob Glaser, breaking the news: Team – I’m writing to share some ...
  6 days ago

• Does Your Mom Edit Your Blog? Google Wants to Know.

  
  MediaMemo — Authority: 749
  Do a Google news search, for say, “Will Ferrell,” and you’ll see that the search giant has started labeling news items from blogs as…news items from blogs. Why? Turns out Google (GOOG) CEO Eric Schmidt isn’t quite sure himself. But posed with that question during a Boston news conference yesterday, ...
  6 days ago

• RealNetworks to Lay Off Four Percent of Staff Today

  
  BoomTown — Authority: 737
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• 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: 737
  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 ...
  1 week ago

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