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<title>Google to Extend Reach With Venture-Capital Ar</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Google is working on plans to start a venture-capital arm, according to several people briefed on the discussions.

The group will be lead by David Drummond, Google's senior vice president of corporate development and chief legal officer, according to two of these people. Google has hired William Maris, a 33-year-old former entrepreneur who has worked as an investor, to help set up the venture. How the group will be structured and what sort of investments it is likely to target remain...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:32:01 CDT</pubDate>
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<title>Amazon S3 Down</title>
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<description><![CDATA[As I write this, Amazonâs S3 storage servers have been unreachable for several minutes. The e-tailer's "Service Health Dashboard" reports that the S3 service in both the United States and Europe is experiencing "elevated error rates."  The online storage service had its public launch in early 2006. One of the things that makes S3 attractive to start-ups and power users is that it ties in with other Amazon Web Services like the elastic computing cloud and its SimpleDB service. Using all three,...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:28:42 CDT</pubDate>
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<title>Google’s long rumoured virtual world play surfaces</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Google has rolled out a challenge to virtual world giant Second Life with free software that lets people create their own online 3D worlds that can be embedded on websites and melded with other online functions.

So far, Lively by Google works on Windows Vista or XP and Google is working on a MySpace version. The hope is that portability of the service will help distinguish it; another interesting addition is that in these virtual room users can can view videos and other content that are...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 9 Jul 2008 09:03:09 CDT</pubDate>
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<title>YouTube Must Give All User Histories To Viacom</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Google will have to turn over every record of every video watched by YouTube users, including users' names and IP addresses, to Viacom, which is suing Google for allowing clips of its copyright videos to appear on YouTube, a judge ruled Wednesday. Although Google argued that turning over the data would invade its users' privacy, the judge's ruling described that argument as "speculative" and ordered Google to turn over the logs on a set of four tera-byte hard drives.

Google correctly argued...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 3 Jul 2008 08:47:10 CDT</pubDate>
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<title>CBS Acquiring CNET For $1.8 Billion (44.6 Percent Premium)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[CBS is acquiring CNET for $1.8 billion in cash. The purchase price comes to $11.50 per share, representing a 44.6 percent premium over last nightâs closing price of $7.95. This is that big acquisition weâve been waiting for from Quincy Smithâs CBS Interactive â it appears that this represents a nice profit for them. The deal was approved unanimously by the CNET board and is expected to close in Q3. Release.

CNET's influence may be declining, and as far as finances go, the company's...]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 09:19:37 CDT</pubDate>
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<title>Microsoft Walks Away From Yahoo Deal</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Microsoft is withdrawing its offer for Yahoo after talks between the two companies broke down on Saturday. Should investors sue or back Yang?

Microsoft hiked its offer to $33 a share, but Yahoo was holding out for $37 a share, the source said. The two sides met face to face again Saturday, but remained far apart.

Although price was a key issue, Microsoft also had strategic concerns and saw it as unlikely to achieve a friendly integration process. According to a source close to Microsoft,...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 3 May 2008 20:32:10 CDT</pubDate>
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<title>Google Taking On Amazon With App Engine</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Google is launching Google App Engine , a suite of free services for developers which willl compete squarely with offerings Amazon already provides.

.Servers: Amazon's = EC2; Google's = Python
.Database: Amazon's = Simple DB; Google's = BigTable
.Storage: Amazon's = S3; Google's = GFS.

Google's goal is to make it easy to get started with a new Web application, and then make it easy to scale when that application reaches the point where it's receiving significant traffic and has millions...]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 8 Apr 2008 09:17:23 CDT</pubDate>
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<title>Microsoft Gives Yahoo Ultimatum: Sign Deal In 3 Weeks Or We Cut Bid</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In this ultimatum Microsoft makes a compelling case that Yahoo's board is violating its fiduciary duty to shareholders by not even engaging with Microsoft. This, combined with the threat of a bid cut, will likely prompt Yahoo shareholders to turn up the heat on Yahoo's board and management. It will also likely prompt Yahoo's board to do some real soul-searching, in which the directors ask themselves again whether they really want to continue down this path.

Given Microsoft's clear warning...]]></description>
<pubDate>Sat, 5 Apr 2008 16:04:22 CDT</pubDate>
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<title>Google to Lay Off About 300 at DoubleClick</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In the first sizable layoffs in its history, Google is cutting about 300 jobs from the American operations of DoubleClick, the advertising technology company that it acquired recently, according to a person with direct knowledge of Googleâs plans.

The cuts represent about a quarter of DoubleClickâs American work force of about 1,200. The company has about 1,500 employees worldwide, and the chief executive of Google, Eric E. Schmidt, has suggested that job cuts would also affect...]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 2 Apr 2008 17:27:54 CDT</pubDate>
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<title>Yahoo, Google, MySpace form non-profit OpenSocial Foundation</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Yahoo said on Tuesday that it supports OpenSocial; a protocol to develop applications for social networks and will help create a joint foundation to keep it alive.

Google launched its OpenSocial network in November to lure developers already creating popular Web applications on social networks like Facebook.

Yahoo, Google and News Corp-owned MySpace said on Tuesday they will create the OpenSocial Foundation to maintain a neutral, community-governed forum for developing applications. It...]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:24:09 CDT</pubDate>
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