A Way to Find Your Corner of the Internet Sky  —  IF you know what you’re looking for online, Google and other Internet search engines do a pretty good job of helping you find it.  But what if you don’t know exactly what you want?  —  Say you are a soccer fan, but you are […]

SAP agrees 4.8-billion-euro buyout of Business Objects  —  PARIS (AFP) - Germany’s SAP, a world leader in business software, announced late Sunday that it had agreed with France’s Business Objects on a buy-out worth just over 4.8 billion euros (6.8 billion dollars).

Source:   Agence France Presse
Link:   http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071007/bs_afp…

Official: Selling Paid Links Can Hurt Your PageRank Or Rankings On Google  —  More and more, I’ve been seeing people wondering if they’ve lost traffic on Google because they were detected to be selling paid links.  However, Google’s generally never penalized sites for link selling.

Source:   Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search […]

Mint Rakes It In  —  Since launching and winning the top spot at our TechCrunch40 conference three weeks ago, personal-finance startup Mint has been on a roll.  On Friday, Mint was named Best of Show at the 2007 Financial Innovations conference (along with peer-to-peer lender Prosper and mortgage-finder Mortgagebot).

Source:   TechCrunch
Author:   Erick Schonfeld
Link:   […]

Thou Shalt Not Kill, Except in a Popular Video Game at Church  —  First the percussive sounds of sniper fire and the thrill of the kill.  Then the gospel of peace.  —  Across the country, hundreds of ministers and pastors desperate to reach young congregants have drawn concern and criticism through …

Source:   New York […]

Msnbc.com Acquires Newsvine  —  technology, microsoft, newsvine, nbc, msnbc, acquisitions, msnbc-com  —  Esteemed Members of the Newsvine Community,  —  It is our great pleasure to announce today that Newsvine has been acquired by msnbc.com.  There are so many exciting things to share …

Source:   Newsvine
Link:   http://blog.newsvine.com/_news/2007/10/07/1008889…

Newsvine Acquired By MSNBC - Leading Citizen Journalism Site Snapped Up by MSM  —  Today Newsvine CEO Mike Davidson contacted Read/WriteWeb to announce that his citizen journalism startup Newsvine has been acquired by MSNBC, the Microsoft/NBC joint venture, for an undisclosed sum.

Source:   Read/WriteWeb
Author:   Richard MacManus
Link:   http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives…

Msnbc.com acquires Newsvine  —  First acquisition in 11-year history moves company in new direction  —  Newsvine.com pays users for their stories and displays articles based on user rankings.  —  REDMOND, Wash. - Msnbc.com is diving into citizen journalism and social media by acquiring Newsvine.com …

Source:   MSNBC
Author:   Alex Johnson
Link:   http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21138371/

Breaking: Newsvine Acquired By MSNBC.com  —  Online news site Newsvine, which launched in March 2006, has been acquired by MSNBC.com, a fifty-fifty joint venture between Microsoft and NBC.  This is MSNBC.com’s first acquisition.  —  The deal, which closed on October 5, was all cash, but the acquisition price is not being disclosed.

Source:   TechCrunch
Author:   […]

TorrentSpy Traffic Plunges After US Ban  —  TorrentSpy founder Justin told TorrentFreak in a response to the censorship: “Whatever future awaits, the innovations of peer-to-peer technology and the jobs and opportunities it creates will take place outside of the USA.”

Source:   TorrentFreak
Author:   Ernesto
Link:   http://torrentfreak.com/torrentspy-traffic-plunges…