Battelle Turns Down $100 Million Offer For FM Publishing.  Decides To Shop Around For a Higher Price.  —  Yesterday, news started circulating that Federated Media Publishing hired Savvian, a boutique San Francisco investment bank, to shop around the blog ad network to potential buyers.

Source:   TechCrunch
Author:   Erick Schonfeld
Link:   http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/24/battelle-turns…

DOWNLOAD: WINDOWS VISTA ONE YEAR VULNERABILITY REPORT  —  Windows Vista shipped to business customers on the last day of November 2006, so the end of November 2007 marks the one year anniversary for supported production use of the product.  —  This paper analyzes the vulnerability disclosures …

Source:   Jeff Jones Security Blog
Author:   Jrjones
Link:   […]

Wall Street Journal Web Site To Remain Subscription-Based  —  The Wall Street Journal’s Web site, WSJ.com, will keep a significant portion of its content behind its paid-subscription wall, News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch said Thursday.  —  Speculation that News Corp. would make WSJ.com …

Source:   Wall Street Journal
Author:   Emily Steel
Link:   http://online.wsj.com/public/article…

Vudu drops price to fend off resurgent Apple TV  —  Vudu is knocking 25 percent off the price of its eponymous video-on-demand box.  Effective immediately, the Vudu is now $295, down from its original $399 asking price.  Customers who’ve purchased the unit in the past 30 days …

Source:   CNET News.com
Author:   John P. Falcone
Link: […]

NTT DoCoMo and Google to Partner in Mobile Internet Services  —  Tokyo, January 24, 2008 - NTT DoCoMo, Inc. (Headquartered in Tokyo; President & CEO Masao Nakamura) and Google Inc. (Headquartered in California; Chairman & CEO; Eric Schmidt) today jointly announced that they formed a partnership …

Source:   NTT DoCoMo Global Site: Press Releases
Link:   […]

Sprint Cleans House: CFO, CMO, Sales Chief Get The Boot  —  Sprint Nextel (S) this morning started cleaning house: the company announced the departures effective tomorrow of CFO Paul Saleh, Chief Marketing Officer Tim Kelly, and President of Sales and Distribution Mark Angelino.  Buh-bye.  Buh-bye.

Source:   BARRONS.com: Tech Trader Daily - Barron’s Online
Author:   Eric […]

YouTube On the Go  —  YouTube first dipped its toe in the mobile world in November of 2006 with a deal to deliver some video clips through the VCast service of Verizon Wireless.  Last year it created a mobile Web site accessible on many Sprint and AT&T phones.  But the site only carried a small […]

Vudu “slashes” price again (sort of)  —  When Apple announced the launch of iTunes movie rentals and an updated AppleTV, most of the talk was about how it would compete with incumbents such as Netflix.  But one company, Vudu, has more to fear than most.  —  It’s set-top movie box offering …

Source:   last100
Author:   […]

Netflix to Offer Mac Video Streaming in 2008  —  AlleyInsider reports that during their Q4 financial results, Netflix confirmed that they were hoping to have a Mac web-streaming video solution available in 2008.  An earlier Netflix blog entry from August had reported the same expectation.

Source:   MacRumors : Mac News and Rumors
Author:   Arn
Link:   […]

Rethinking The Local Paper  —  This is my local newspaper, called The Villager.  If you live in Greenwich Village, NYC, you probably read The Villager.  But there are several problems with The Villager (which was voted NY State’s “Best Community Newspaper”).  —  First, it’s only updated once a week.

Source:   A VC
Author:   Fred
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