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Google in talks to buy review site Yelp: Reports
SAN FRANCISCO: Google Inc is in talks
to buy Yelp Inc, the popular website for reviews of local businesses, in a deal
that could help the Internet search leader tap a lucrative local ads market,
media reports say.
Google may pay more than $500
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Hollywood getting behind made-for-Web productions, adding dollars, talent and distribution
LOS ANGELES — Web sites that buy original video clips often pay so little that "The Bannen Way," a flashy crime thriller debuting online, looked destined to be made poorly if it could be made at all.
Yet budding filmmakers Jesse Warren and Mark Gantt
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GM picks Microsoft CFO to run its finances; Microsoft exec led effort to cut costs, build cash
DETROIT — General Motors Co. has hired an outsider to run its troubled finance operations, bringing in the chief financial officer of Microsoft Corp.
Chris Liddell will join GM next year, GM CEO Ed Whitacre Jr. said in a statement Monday.
Liddell, 51,
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Yahoo to go for weeklong shutdown
CALIFORNIA: Yahoo says it will close
its offices from Christmas through New Year's to help save money. The
cost-cutting move ends a year in which Yahoo's revenue declined for the first
time since 2001.
It's the first time that Yahoo has required most
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FTC taking closer look at Google's AdMob purchase
The Federal Trade Commission sought more information about the deal this week, according to a Wednesday post on Google's blog.
This so-called "second request" doesn't mean regulators intend to block Google's AdMob deal. Most other acquisitions that go
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FTC taking closer look at Google's AdMob purchase
The Federal Trade Commission sought more information about the deal this week, according to a Wednesday post on Google's blog.
This so-called "second request" doesn't mean regulators intend to block Google's AdMob deal. Most other acquisitions that go
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Dialing for dollars: Google picks up potent weapon with deal for mobile marketing pioneer
Google sharpens aim on mobile marketing with AdMob
SAN MATEO, Calif. — Four years ago, Omar Hamoui was just another ineffectual entrepreneur trying to spruce up his resume in graduate school.
Now, he's poised to become Google Inc.'s newest weapon as
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Google seeks to find a way for children to search better
When
Benjamin Feshbach was 11 years old, he was given a brainteaser: on which day
would the vice president’s birthday fall the next
year.
Benjamin, now 13, said he typed the question directly into the
Google search box, to no avail. He then tried
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Google sharpens aim on mobile marketing with AdMob
(AP) -- Four years ago, Omar Hamoui was just another ineffectual entrepreneur trying to spruce up his resume in graduate school. Now, he's poised to become Google Inc.'s newest weapon as the company aims to extend its dominance of online advertising
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Times Square Ball Drop Tops EarthCam's Live Worldwide New Year's Interactive Webcast for 14th Year
NEW YORK, Dec. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- EarthCam (www.earthcam.com), the world's favorite webcam network and industry leader in webcam technology, will webcast its 14th annual New Year's Eve Times Square interactive celebration live from New York City and
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Tales from the tour in 2009
For a select few, the airline of choice is TWA -- Tiger Woods Airlines.
The world's No. 1 player has been flying private for most of his professional career, and most recently flew home from Australia with his mother, three close friends and his office
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Five Jobs Other Browsers Do Better
In case you haven't heard, the browser war is over. It's not that there aren't still competitors--in fact, there's a bountiful landscape of Web browsers for OS X. Rather, the war is over because almost all modern browsers are stable, compliant, and
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Pandit, Dimon among CEOs, creates worst buzz in `09: Fortune!
New York: The financial crisis grounded many
a high flying corporate honchos while those still standing,
including Citi's Vikram Pandit and JPMorgan Chase's Jamie
Dimon have created the worst business.
Going by a list of ten 'Best and Worst CEO Buzz
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Arenas Did Not Deny Pulling Gun On Teammate
An NBA investigation into Washington Wizards star Gilbert Arenas‘ possession of guns inside the team’s locker room has been linked to a confrontation with teammate Javaris Crittenton, multiple sources told Yahoo! Sports.
The league’s ongoing probe
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What Were You Thinking??? Gilbert Arenas Pulls Out Heat on Teammate
WTF is wrong with these athletes these days???
Washington Wizards teammates Gilbert Arenas and Javaris Crittenton drew guns on each other during a Christmas Eve locker room argument over a gambling debt, according to the New York Post.
Last week, the
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Arenas: Bad Idea Bringing Guns Into Locker Room
NEW YORK (CBS News) ―
Gilbert Arenas said Saturday he used "bad judgment" in bringing guns into the Washington Wizards locker room. He also denied that he gambles and said there are misconceptions in the various stories about a dispute between
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Practical joke backfiring on Arenas, NBA
"I know Gilbert is a good guy," Pacers guard T.J. Ford said. "I don't think, like he said in his statement, that he was trying to hurt anybody."
Probably not.
But Arenas has already tarnished his image as one of pro basketball's more
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Johnson & Johnson heiress Casey Johnson dead at 30
Casey Johnson, the heiress to the Johnson & Johnson, left, was first reported to have died by Tila Tequila.
Officer: Casey Johnson, 30, appears dead of natural causes; no evidence of foul play foundJohnson made tabloid headlines with a purported
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Will government intervene in BCS mess?
"It's like communism," Texas congressman Joe Barton said about BCS not long ago. "It can't be fixed."
Just about everyone, though, from President Barack Obama to the 90 percent of fans who cast votes against the BCS in a recent Sports Illustrated poll,
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French panel suggests taxing Google to boost music industry, cultural endeavors
PARIS — How to help prop up the ailing music industry? Tax Google, suggests a new report commissioned by the French government.
The report, handed to Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand on Wednesday, says Google and other Internet portals should be
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Yahoo! expands Web-connected TV push
Yahoo! announced partnerships with television and other device manufacturers on Thursday as the Internet company joins others seeking to jump from the computer to the TV screen.
"Consumers are in love with their televisions, watching more TV, and
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Harry tops Ross replacement poll
Harry Hill is the celebrity the public would like to see eventually taking over Jonathan Ross's Friday night show, according to a survey.
In a poll of more than 4,000 Yahoo! TV users, the ITV funnyman beat Chris Evans, Michael McIntyre and Graham
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Electronics to be consumed
The premier Consumer Electronics Show (CES), which ended yesterday, rebounded from a global economic drubbing, wowing attendees with gadgets that merge 3D, software, entertainment, and the web.
“CES is back,” analyst Rob Enderle of the Enderle Group
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AOL to cut jobs as reduction fails
She said AOL began meeting with employees on yesterday throughout Europe, including in Britain, Germany and France.
"We announced plans to shut down many of our offices in Europe, beginning with those in Spain and Sweden," she said.
The
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Google threatening to leave China
SAN FRANCISCO -- Google will stop censoring its search results in
China and may pull out of the country after discovering that
hackers had tricked human rights activists into opening their
e-mail accounts to outsiders.
The change of heart announced
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Google’s rare show of defiance in China seems unlikely to be widely followed
Google's China threat is a rare show of defiance
BEIJING — Google's threat to end its operations in China over censorship and computer-security concerns could embarrass communist leaders who crave international respect. Yet it appears unlikely that
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Google snub of China is a rarity
BEIJING — Google's threat to end its operations in China over censorship and computer-security concerns could embarrass communist leaders who crave international respect. Yet it appears unlikely that many other companies would follow suit and try to
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Google’s future in China unclear, despite praise for standing up to Chinese censorship
WASHINGTON — Google Inc. is enjoying an avalanche of good will because of its threat to leave China over e-mail hacking attacks against dissidents.
It took four years for Google to reconsider its decision to help China control Internet information in
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Alibaba Calls Yahoo's Support of Google 'reckless'
Alibaba Group, the owner of Yahoo China, rejected as "reckless" a Yahoo statement supporting Google's stance in the country, after Google said it was hit by cyberattacks from China and may cease business there.
Yahoo, which holds a large stake in
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Google still undecided on Chinese market
The saga over web giant Google's threat to leave China over cyber-spying and censorship concerns continues after the company denied reports that it had already made a decision and was set to quit the world's biggest Internet market.
Google, the
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Google denies leaving China
Google has denied that, saying the company is still in the process of scanning its internal networks since the cyber-attack in mid-December. Google also said it would hold talks with the Chinese government over the next few weeks.
China has tried
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Google scraps China cell phone launch amid dispute
Google on Tuesday postponed the launch of two mobile phones in China, adding to the potential commercial fallout of its dispute with Beijing over Internet censorship and e-mail hacking.
The delay affects separate phones made by Motorola and Samsung.
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TV psychic's Jackson show named worst of the year
James Corden and Matthew Horne's comedy sketch show Horne & Corden and Amanda Holden's circus-themed series Big Top also made the top five of the survey, which asked contributors to name the biggest TV flop of 2009.
Television psychic Acorah's
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TELEVISION: Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit For Earthquake Relief Announces Lineup of Superstar Musical Performances!
Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief [dozens of networks, and online, Friday, 8/7C], today announced its lineup of superstar musical performances. The global telethon will feature performances by Wyclef Jean, Bruce Springsteen,
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China hits back at US internet criticism
CHINA has rejected criticism of its internet censorship by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, saying it hurt relations, as a row over Google's threat to leave the Chinese market intensified.
Clinton urged China today to thoroughly investigate cyber-
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Blogging from the bench: Buckeyes' Titus famous for NOT playing
COLUMBUS, Ohio Mark Titus seldom even gets into a game for No. 21 Ohio State. Incredibly, that hasn't kept him from becoming one of the most popular and famous college basketball players in the nation.
How many stars have a blog that has had more than 2
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SADIF Analytics releases new summary due diligence report for Lonmin Plc
Refer to a friend
2010-01-24 23:51:33 - SADIF-Investment Analytics has applied its StockMarks™ stock-rating system to Lonmin Plc and produced a report, rating the company's attractiveness to long-term investors.
run by efficient management.
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Google negotiating ways to keep presence in China
Even if its stand against censorship leads it to close its search engine in China, Google Inc. still hopes to maintain other key operations in the world's most populous Internet market.
Google is negotiating to keep its research center in China, an
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Yahoo 4Q Earnings Top Analyst Views As Slump Eases
SUNNYVALE (CBS 5 / AP) ―
Yahoo Inc. moved further down the road to recovery in the fourth quarter as online advertising began to snap out of a yearlong stupor to ease the Internet company's long-running slump.
The results released Tuesday
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Stock watch: Jan. 27, 2010
NEW YORK — Stock futures are modestly higher Wednesday as investors avoid making big bets without knowing how potential policy changes could affect trading.
Politicians and regulators in Washington will be the primary focus as the President gives his
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AP promotes Seagrave to post overseeing efforts to revive revenue growth at news cooperative
NEW YORK — The Associated Press is promoting Jane Seagrave to chief revenue officer as the news cooperative tries to bring in more money from digital channels to help offset recent reductions in revenue from traditional media.
Seagrave, a senior vice
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Automotive Rhythms Enhances Your 'Auto Experiences' With Revamped Website
- New design highlights and expands on the site's most relevant features - Added social networking components modernizes site navigation - Latest video integration enhances viewer experience
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Automotive Rhythms
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'Pants on the Ground' puts style in spotlight
of imitators include Jimmy Fallon, Brett Favre and the Roots.
At Bridges restaurant in Danville, a young repairman arrived to fix a piece of equipment — pretty normal stuff.
Except, the repairman had his pants on the ground, as "General" Larry Platt
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Rewriting European privacy law for digital age
European legislation covering the protection of private data is being dragged into the digital age in a potential threat for social networking sites like Facebook where users display foibles, often without a thought for consequences.
European
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Yahoo keeps AP in its content corner with new deal
SAN FRANCISCO - The Associated Press has signed a licensing deal with Yahoo Inc. that gives the news cooperative a steady stream of revenue at a time less money is flowing in from newspapers and broadcasters.
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AP will continue to provide news to Yahoo
A screen shot of Associated Press news content on the Yahoo news Web site is shown in San Francisco, Monday, Feb. 1, 2010. The Associated Press has signed a licensing deal with Yahoo Inc. that gives the news cooperative a steady stream of revenue at a
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Yahoo sells HotJobs to Monster Worldwide for $225M
Yahoo is selling its online help-wanted site, HotJobs, to rival Monster Worldwide for $225 million in cash.
Yahoo is selling its online help-wanted site, HotJobs, to rival Monster Worldwide for $225 million in cash.
The deal announced Wednesday
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Yahoo sells HotJobs to Monster Worldwide for $225M
Yahoo Inc. crossed off another chore on its housecleaning list Wednesday with the proposed sale of help-wanted site HotJobs to rival Monster Worldwide Inc. for $225 million.
The all-cash deal announced marks another step in Yahoo CEO Carol
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Earnings Preview: IAC to report 4th-qtr results Tuesday, analysts expect flat adjusted profit
SAN FRANCISCO — Internet company IAC/InterActiveCorp, which is headed by billionaire Barry Diller and runs search engine Ask.com and dating site Match.com, reports its fourth-quarter results before the stock market opens Tuesday.
WHAT TO WATCH FOR:
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Facebook removes Microsoft banner ads
Facebook is taking full control of display ads on the world's No.1 social networking website, cutting short an exclusive deal that had allowed Microsoft Corp to manage part of that business.
However, Microsoft - the exclusive provider of Web search on
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Prepping digital assets for the great off-line
OTTAWA - Emru Townsend fought cancer online. His blogs, web sites and photo-sharing accounts richly documented his courageous battle with leukemia and his search for a bone-marrow donor.
After Townsend died in 2008 his grieving family was desperate to
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Spain's Telefonica considers charging Google
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MADRID -- Spanish telecoms operator Telefonica says it is considering charging Internet search companies like Google and Yahoo for network use.
In comments published Monday from a press conference in the northern city of Bilbao,
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Google tweaks Gmail to challenge Facebook, Twitter
Google introduced a new product dubbed Google Buzz on Tuesday that allows users to quickly share messages, Web links and photos with friends and colleagues directly within Gmail, the company's popular email product.
And the company unveiled a handful
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Google's e-mail gets social in Facebook face-off
SAN FRANCISCO — Google Inc. opened a new social hub in its e-mail service on Tuesday, leaving little doubt that the Internet search leader is girding for a face-off with Facebook.
The new Gmail channel, called Google Buzz, includes many of the
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'Teargas fired' as Iranian security forces move against opposition
Iranian security forces today moved to break up anti-government protests at
the start of a day expected to be marked by serious clashes on the 31st
anniversary of the revolution that created the Islamic republic.
Opposition websites claimed police
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Google’s digital book ambitions set up courtroom showdown next week with Justice Department
Next chapter in digital book deal: Google vs. DOJ
SAN FRANCISCO — Determined to create the world's largest digital library, Google Inc. is betting it knows more about U.S. antitrust and copyright laws than the government regulators enforcing them.
The
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Batelco blocks Port 25 to curb spamming
Batelco is set to block the simple mail transfer protocol e-mails through port 25 for all retail and wholesale residential Broadband ADSL customers from next month in order to curb spamming and similar practices.
The measure will only affect those
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WAN posts fall in first half profit
WEST Australian Newspapers Holdings has posted a 15.4 per cent fall in first half net profit but says there has been a significant improvement in the underlying financial performance of the business.
The media company reported net profit of $49.492
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Lou Marson, C, Cleveland Indians
Marson is an OK Carlos Santana preshow. His biggest asset, though, is playing time. Deep two-catcher mixers and AL-only drafters should pay the most, but he might be removed from the starting job by midseason.
What do you think? We
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Camby will not play Tuesday
: Blazers C Marcus Camby will not play against the Clippers on Tuesday, according Yahoo! Sports. Camby, acquired in a trade from the Clips, will reportedly make his debut Friday against the Celtics.
(Updated 02/16/2010).
No information
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Yahoo director Ron Burkle to end 9-year stint
SUNNYVALE, Calif. (AP) -- Longtime Yahoo Inc. director Ron Burkle plans to step down, continuing a makeover of the Internet company's 11-member board.
Burkle won't seek re-election at Yahoo's annual meeting later this year so he can focus on his other
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Yahoo, Microsoft to begin their Web ad partnership
WASHINGTON:
Microsoft Corp and Yahoo Inc have received clearance from regulators in
Washington and Europe to proceed with a search partnership intended to challenge
Google Inc.
The companies announced on Thursday that the partnership
has been
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Yahoo-Microsoft search deal set, takes aim at market leader Google
SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. and European regulators have cleared the long-discussed Internet search partnership between Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc., enabling the rivals to form a tag team as they try to mount a more serious challenge to Google Inc.
The
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Valverde has high hopes for 2010
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Detroit Tigers manager Jim Leyland says you can tell a lot from a pitcher's face.
He said his new closer Jose Valverde is always smiling whatever the situation. Valverde disagrees. In the clubhouse he is sunny and upbeat, but on the
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Seven Network and WesTrac to merge
Kerry Stokes' Seven Network Ltd and WesTrac Holdings will merge to create a new listed diversified operating and investment group called Seven Group Holdings Ltd.
Seven said the new company will transition Seven Network from an investment holding
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AUSTRALIAN TYCOON TO TRANSFORM SEVEN NETWORK INTO DIVERSIFIED GRP
Australian media tycoon Kerry
Stokes plans to transform his listed media-based investment
holding company into a new diversified group by adding an
equipment management business to the mix, to make up for
limited opportunities in the media and telecoms
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Xerox Files Patent Suit Against Google, Yahoo
Xerox Corporation on Friday filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Google, Yahoo, and YouTube over disputed Internet search and e-commerce technology.
It also claims that Google Maps and Google video violate a different patent, "Method and
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Yahoo strikes content-sharing partnership with Twitter
In a battle to woo back Web surfers who are spending more time on social networking sites, Internet portal Yahoo has clinched a deal with Twitter to share content across both properties.
Yahoo reached a similar agreement with Facebook in December,
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Pioneer of online job search starts over again
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Bill Warren founded an early online job board in the 1990s, helped kick-start an industry and was president of Monster.com, one of the leading Internet career sites. But these days he's not very happy with the results.
So he's
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AP forms unit to sell digital subscriptions, advertising; plans fee-based iPad app
AP takes aim at consumers with new digital unit
DENVER — The Associated Press is setting up a division to help the news cooperative, newspapers and broadcasters sell digital products directly to readers on the next wave of Internet-connected devices
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Losing momentum
The economy now is likely expanding at just half the brisk 5.9 percent pace at which the government on Friday estimated it grew last quarter. Business spending will make up for some of a slowdown in consumer spending but not likely enough to reduce the
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6 Months, $90,000 and (Maybe) a Great Idea
THE print hanging behind the receptionist's desk at Foundation Capital screams, "Our greatest thrill is to loan you money" -- in chunky, capitalized red letters. That's encouraging news for Michael Bauer, because he wants money and has put himself in a
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Google adds Picnik to its basket of acquisitions
Google Inc. is adding online photo editing service Picnik to its basket of recent acquisitions.
Financial terms of the deal announced Monday weren't disclosed.
The Internet search leader said it doesn't plan immediate changes at Picnik, which employs 20
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Microsoft CEO: Google merits regulatory scrutiny
Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer intends to keep the regulatory heat on Google as his company strives to lessen its rival's dominance of Internet search.
In an appearance Tuesday at a search engine conference, Ballmer said Microsoft believes Google
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Yahoo CEO says she will need more time for turnaround, just like Jobs at Apple
SUNNYVALE, Calif. - Yahoo Inc. CEO Carol Bartz says she hopes investors growing impatient for her to turn around the slumping Internet company remember how long it took for Steve Jobs to revive Apple Inc.
In a Tuesday meeting to celebrate Yahoo's 15th
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Facebook CEO in No Rush for IPO: Report
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg is in no rush to take the popular social-networking site public, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. The 25-year-old CEO told the Journal in an interview that the company would
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Yahoo beats NBC in Olympics Web traffic
Yahoo takes the gold in Olympics Web traffic, besting NBC's site, accoring to ComScore
NEW YORK (AP) -- Web tracker ComScore says Yahoo took the gold in Olympics Web traffic, besting NBC's site for the games.
Yahoo's Olympics-devoted site received 32
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Yahoo beats NBC in Olympics Web traffic
NEW YORK — Web tracker ComScore says Yahoo took the gold in Olympics Web traffic, besting NBC's site for the games.
Yahoo's Olympics-devoted site received 32 million unique visitors during the two-week event. NBC's Olympics site drew 18.9 million
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Yahoo! at 15
Missed the company's birthday by a few days, but was incorporated on March 1, 1995.
If you had bought in at the opening $24.50 back then and kept the stock through the 5 splits you would have 24 shares for each initial one. So you would have $377.52
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AIG, McDonald's, IMAX, Yahoo are big movers
NEW YORK -- Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Monday on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Stock Market: NYSE: American International Group Inc., up $1.02 at $29.10 AIG said it will sell its American Life Insurance Co. division for $1
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Microsoft rolls out new MSN site design
REDMOND, WASH. — Microsoft is rolling out the new design for its MSN Web portal in the U.S.
The software maker is saying goodbye to MSN.com's blue background and its blocks of text links. Instead, starting Tuesday, the site is sporting more white space
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MySpace outlines makeover after executive shake up in hopes of carving out entertainment niche
MySpace outlines makeover after exec shake up
LOS ANGELES — Long-ago lapped by Facebook in popularity and with fast-growing Twitter on its tail, social networking site MySpace is planning a series of updates over the next months that will link its
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Analyst downgrades Yahoo on search share concerns
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SAN FRANCISCO -- A Benchmark Co. analyst downgraded share of Yahoo Inc. Thursday, noting issues like better-scaled competitors grabbing a bigger share of the search market and increasing competition in display advertising.
In a note
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Microsoft, Motorola Strike Bing Deal
Microsoft is continuing to buy its way into the mobile search market with a new deal with Motorola, which has agreed to use Microsoft's Bing search on Motorola's Android phones.
Consumers, however, may presumably install Google's search engine on
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Facebook Helps Social Start-Ups Gain Users
AUSTIN, Tex. -- The only thing more challenging than deciphering the names of all the social-minded Web sites battling for attention at the South by Southwest technology conference here -- Brizzly, Vicarious.ly, Stalqer, Quora and so forth -- would be
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Inside the New Digg: An Interview with CEO Jay Adelson
To sum it up, Adelson says the new strategy will “enable social curation of all the world’s content and the conversation around it.” To get there though, Digg has re-built its entire site from the ground up, with dramatic changes that will be rolled
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Survey: Readers don't want to pay for news online
to be concentrated on the biggest — Yahoo, MSNBC, CNN, AOL and The New York Times.
NEW YORK — Getting people to pay for news online at this point would be "like trying to force butterflies back into their cocoons," a new consumer survey suggests.
That
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Break the law and your new Facebook 'friend' may be the FBI
WASHINGTON: The Feds are on Facebook. And MySpace, LinkedIn and Twitter, too.
U.S. law enforcement agents are following the rest of the Internet world into popular social-networking services, going undercover with false online profiles to communicate
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PayPal plans to double staff in Asia by year's end
SINGAPORE — PayPal, the online payments unit of Internet auction site operator eBay Inc., plans to double its staff in Asia to 2,000 by the end of the year.
"Asia is our fastest growing market and we absolutely expect that trend to continue," president
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The Beat Goes Online, Minus the Glitz
IN the magazine world, there has traditionally been no more glamorous place to work than Condé Nast. Brandon Holley can attest to that.
When she was the editor in chief of Jane, Condé Nast's monthly for young single women, she had a big office in the
