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TechCrunch: Breaking: eBay Completes Skype Sale At $2.75 Billion Valuation
eBay has just announced that it has completed the sale of Skype, valuing the company at $2.75 billion. The investor consortium who is the buying party and will control an approximately 70 percent stake is a group led by Silver Lake Partners and includes J...
Dateline: 2009-11-19 4:16pm -08:00T (291 words)
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TechCrunch: Breaking: eBay Completes Skype Sale At $2.75 Billion Valuation
eBay has just announced that it has completed the sale of Skype, valuing the company at $2.75 billion. The investor consortium who is the buying party and will control an approximately 70 percent stake is a group led by Silver Lake Partners and includes J...
Dateline: 2009-11-19 4:16pm -08:00T (291 words)
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Om Malik: Choosing the Right Tool Is Key for Mobile Advertisers
Text messages and banners on the mobile web are the most noticeable kinds of wireless ads, according to new research from Parks Associates, but mobile video and click-to-call campaigns draw the best response from consumers. Such contradictions underscore ...
Dateline: 2009-11-19 3:01pm -08:00T (349 words)
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Ars Technica: I'm in ur atom, probing ur nucleus
It has been 100 years since the Geiger-Marsden experiment
upended
humanity's longstanding view of the atom as a nice, relatively
homogeneous
particle. When the alpha particles shot at gold ...
Dateline: 2009-11-19 3:01pm -08:00T (275 words)
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Top Tech News: Google Will Add Text Captions To YouTube Videos
In a move to make YouTube's massive inventory more accessible to deaf and hearing-impaired people, Google announced plans to add automatic captioning technology to the video site. Google has combined its automatic speech-recognition technology with the ex...
Dateline: 2009-11-19 3:01pm -08:00T (300 words)
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MobileCrunch: Android-fueled Motorola Motus specs get spec’d
(Get it? Specs, spec’d, spectacles? Anyone? Come on – maybe it’s not funny, but at least it shows I know.. uh.. words.)
I’m not too sure what to think of the Motorola Motus yet, but one thing is for sure: that form factor is crazy...
Dateline: 2009-11-19 6:46pm -08:00T (345 words)
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Top Tech News: AT&T Fires Back at Verizon with 'X and V' Commercial
AT&T isn't holding back in responding to attacks from Verizon Wireless. After losing a court fight to stop Verizon from airing commercials that pointed out holes in AT&T's 3G service, AT&T is responding with its own commercial.
On Wednesday, the wirele...
Dateline: 2009-11-19 3:01pm -08:00T (300 words)
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Ubuntu Tips,Tricks,Tutorials and Howtos: Install minitube in ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic)
Minitube is a native YouTube client. With it you can watch YouTube videos in a new way: you type a keyword, Minitube gives you an endless video stream. Minitube does not require the Flash Player.
(...)Read the rest of Install minitube in ubuntu 9.10 (Kar...
Dateline: 2009-11-19 4:16pm -08:00T (156 words)
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Om Malik: AOL Discarding Opportunities for Web Relevance
As AOL lays off a third of its work force as it prepares to go independent, it’s looking to drop its ICQ and MapQuest units, according to reports by Kara Swisher. But with the deluge of information hitting web users these days, location and presence...
Dateline: 2009-11-19 4:16pm -08:00T (286 words)
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TechCrunch: With New Staff In Place, Techmeme Polishes Its Mobile Experience
If you’re addicted to Techmeme, like we are, you’re probably addicted to reading it on your mobile phone too. The problem is that the experience hasn’t been great. There was a mobile version of the site, called Mini-Techmeme, but no one ...
Dateline: 2009-11-19 3:01pm -08:00T (287 words)
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TechCrunch: Twitter Turns On Location. Not For Twitter.com Just Yet.
Back in August, Twitter announced that it was getting ready to roll out an ambitious new project: Geolocation. The idea was to be able to attach a location to every tweet. Today, the API for the feature has been officially turned on, but location is not a...
Dateline: 2009-11-19 3:01pm -08:00T (406 words)
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Techdirt: Would Top Sites Really Opt-Out Of Google Based On A Microsoft Bribe?
Every so often, internet pontificators try to come up with ways to "kill Google." It's a silly game, but in an oddly timed move, three people (who have all put forth "how to kill Google" ideas in the past) all suddenly published similar ideas, yet again....
Dateline: 2009-11-19 3:01pm -08:00T (430 words)
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Top Tech News: Office 2010 Integrates with the Web, But Weakly
With the public beta of Office 2010, Microsoft is offering an intriguing future for the world's most popular productivity suite. The new version features integration with web-based, lightweight versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint; a mobile version; and...
Dateline: 2009-11-19 3:01pm -08:00T (300 words)
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Ars Technica: Gyromancer: Square Enix And Popcap's Addictive, $15 Spawn
When it comes to role-playing games, there isn't a bigger name than Square-Enix. PopCap Games enjoys a similar reputation, albeit in the casual games market. When the company behind the Final Fantasy series and the developer responsible for titles l...
Dateline: 2009-11-19 8:01pm -08:00T (161 words)
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Techdirt: Nordic Music Week: Optimism Galore And Found Songs
Last week, I had the pleasure of attending the ...
Dateline: 2009-11-19 4:16pm -08:00T (10 words)
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