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Archive for August 31st, 2007

Who Founded Facebook? A New Claim Emerges (John Markoff/New York Times)

Friday, August 31st, 2007

Who Founded Facebook?  A New Claim Emerges  —  Mark Zuckerberg is considered the founder of Facebook, the popular social networking Web site estimated to be worth upward of $1 billion.  —  Three Harvard classmates, the founders of ConnectU, have long claimed that Mr. Zuckerberg stole the idea from them …

Source:   New York Times
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Google Earth Flight Simulator (Marco/Marco’s Blog)

Friday, August 31st, 2007

Google Earth Flight Simulator  —  Some time last week, Google expanded Google Earth with Google Sky.  As fascinating as Google Sky is, that’s not the focus of this post.  Along with the latest update comes a hidden feature of which I cannot seem to find any other information about.

Source:   Marco’s Blog
Author:   Marco
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Ross Levinsohn And Jonathan Miller To Announce New Buyout Fund Next Week (Michael Arrington/TechCrunch)

Friday, August 31st, 2007

Ross Levinsohn And Jonathan Miller To Announce New Buyout Fund Next Week  —  This news has been simmering for a while.  When Ross Levinsohn (pictured left) resigned as the President of Fox Interactive Media late last year it was rumored that he intended to raise a large fund to acquire Internet startups.

Source:   TechCrunch
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Jon Miller and Ross Levinsohn to Serve as Advisors to General … (Pat Hedley/PR Newswire)

Friday, August 31st, 2007

Jon Miller and Ross Levinsohn to Serve as Advisors to General Atlantic’s Media and Consumer Sector  —  GREENWICH, Conn., Aug. 31 /PRNewswire/ — General Atlantic LLC (GA), a leading global growth equity firm, today announced that Jonathan Miller, former Chairman and CEO of America Online …

Source:   PR Newswire
Author:   Pat Hedley
Link:   http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/070831/nyf043.html

Apple slaps back at NBC in iTunes spat (Greg Sandoval/CNET News.com)

Friday, August 31st, 2007

Apple slaps back at NBC in iTunes spat — Disagreements between Apple and NBC Universal escalated Friday as Apple announced that it won’t sell NBC’s shows for the upcoming television season. — The move comes a day after The New York Times reported that NBC Universal would not renew …
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Original stories, from the source (Josh Cohen/Google News Blog)

Friday, August 31st, 2007

Original stories, from the source — Today we’re launching a new feature on Google News that will help you quickly and easily find original stories from news publishers — including stories from some of the top news agencies in the world, such as the Associated Press, Agence France-Presse …
Source: Google News […]

Inside the Googleplex - It is rare for a company to dominate … (Economist)

Friday, August 31st, 2007

Inside the Googleplex — It is rare for a company to dominate its industry while claiming not to be motivated by money. Google does. But it has yet to face a crisis — IN AMERICA a phenomenon might claim to have entered mainstream culture only after it has been […]

Who’s afraid of Google? (Economist)

Friday, August 31st, 2007

Who’s afraid of Google? — The world’s internet superpower faces testing times — RARELY if ever has a company risen so fast in so many ways as Google, the world’s most popular search engine. This is true by just about any measure: the growth in its market value and revenues […]

LET’S DANCE BABY (Brian Garrity/New York Post)

Friday, August 31st, 2007

LET’S DANCE BABY — UNDERDOG AMAZON SET TO CHALLENGE ITUNES — Apple boss Steve Jobs is about to have another new challenger for dominance in the digital music business: Amazon.com’s Jeff Bezos. — The online retail giant has tentatively set a mid-September target for the launch …
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Google News Now Hosting Wire Stories & Promises Better Variety In Results (Danny Sullivan/Search Engine Land)

Friday, August 31st, 2007

Google News Now Hosting Wire Stories & Promises Better Variety In Results  —  Today, Google News will begin offering articles from several major wire services and news agencies hosted on its own site, rather than sending readers away from Google.  The move is part of licensing agreements that have been stuck over the past year.

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