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Archive for November 22nd, 2007

Rumour: News Corp to buy LinkedIn (Mike Butcher/TechCrunch UK)

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007

Rumour: News Corp to buy LinkedIn  —  [Get the RSS feed or see right for the newsletter.  Digg this story.  Got a story?  Get in touch]  —  An unconfirmed rumour has reached me via a reliable source that LinkedIn is in talks with media giant News Corporation over a possible buyout in January 2008.

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An E-Book Reader That Just May Catch On (David Pogue/New York Times)

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007

An E-Book Reader That Just May Catch On  —  You’ve got to have a lot of nerve to introduce an electronic book reader in 2007.  —  Sure, the idea has appeal: an e-reader lets you carry hundreds of books, search or jump to any spot in the text and bump up the type size when […]

Is Facebook Really Ruining Christmas? (Josh Catone/Read/WriteWeb)

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007

Is Facebook Really Ruining Christmas?  —  Political action and consumer advocacy organization MoveOn this week launched a public campaign against Facebook’s new Project Beacon advertising system (our coverage).  MoveOn characterizes the ad system as “a huge invasion of privacy” …

Source:   Read/WriteWeb
Author:   Josh Catone
Link:   http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives…

Facebook Stealing Googlers At An Alarming Rate (Nick Gonzalez/TechCrunch)

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007

Facebook Stealing Googlers At An Alarming Rate  —  Facebook and Google have been competing with each over more than just social networking.  Facebook is growing from 300ish employees today to 700 next year.  And the best place to get good engineers and others is Google …

Source:   TechCrunch
Author:   Nick Gonzalez
Link:   http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/21/facebook…