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Apple Ads' New Target: Windows 7 (See the Videos!)

Oct 22, 2009
Here are the three new Apple (AAPL) commercials trying to take a smack at the launch of Windows 7 (MSFT), the new operating system software from Microsoft. The “Get a Mac” advertising features the PC and Mac guys, as usual, but are quite...

Exclusive: Guess Who Else Is Coming to Dinner? Twitter-Microsoft Bing Deal Confirmed, But So Is Facebook-Bing

Oct 21, 2009
In a stunning one-two punch, Microsoft will announce separate nonexclusive deals today with both Facebook and Twitter to integrate their real-time feed of status updates into the Bing search service. According to sources, Microsoft (MSFT) digital h...

Yahoo Adds Zimbra to the Garage Sale as It Tries to Shed What Isn't "You!"

Sep 21, 2009
According to numerous sources, Yahoo has also been shopping around Zimbra, the open-source email company it bought in late 2007 for $350 million. Zimbra is only one of the many assets of Yahoo (YHOO) that are now on the block, including its personal...

Huffington Post and Facebook Go "Social News," With Connect on Steroids

Aug 17, 2009
In an unusually robust collaboration using Facebook Connect, the Huffington Post is launching a feature on Monday called “HuffPost Social News,” which lets readers create a personalized social networking-like news page on the Huffington P...

Microsoft-Yahoo Deal Struck, Will Be Announced Within Next 24 Hours

Jul 28, 2009
Multiple sources close to the situation said that the online search and advertising deal between Microsoft and Yahoo has been struck and will be announced within the next 24 hours. While it is not clear if the actual papers have been inked, sources ...

The Judge Was Wrong: RealNetworks' RealDVD Appeal Document

Nov 10, 2009
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...

Viral Video: "2012"–Killer Special Effects…Literally!

Nov 10, 2009
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...

TwinkedIn: The Reese's Cup Video of LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman and Twitter's Biz Stone

Nov 10, 2009
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...

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

Nov 10, 2009
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...

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

Nov 9, 2009
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...


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