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Internet Week Coming Back Next Year For Seconds

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NYC's official tribute to the Internet will take place June 1-8, 2009. Read >

Blip.TV's Series B: $5.2 Million

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A SEC filing puts a number on the video site's latest round, which it announced last month. Read >

Fox Interactive's Schwanbeck Heads To Drop.io

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The 12-year online media veteran becomes Drop.io's VP for Biz Dev. Read >

Maxim, Blender Publisher Toast In Another Blow To Quadrangle

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Future uncertain for popular boob mag. Read >

Amazon Courting Eggheads To Its Cloud With Free Access To Scientific Data (AMZN)

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Need a computer to crack the human genome? Amazon makes it easier to do so on the EC2. Read >

Week In Review: Yang Out Of Yahoo, Dow Sinks Even Lower

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Yahoo's stock had a one day rally on news Yang stepped down, then collapsed along with everything else. Catch up with our weekly news recap. Read >

Will "Citi Field" Disappear Before Mets Play On It?

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From Clusterstock: New York's newest stadium going the way of "Enron Field"? Read >

Rock Band Creator Eyeing iPhone Music Game, Says Tapulous Not A Threat (VIA)

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Not just going to "port" Rock Band to the iPhone and thinks "Tap Tap Revenge" stinks. Read >

Panicked Citigroup Discusses New Bailout With Feds

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Many options on table, none simple or good. As of late Friday evening, no decisions have been made. Read >

Akamai Jumps After Investor Day (AKAM)

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Shares rise 11% after the CDN's dog and pony show. Read >

GigaOm Ditching Federated Media For Ad Sales Deal With IDG

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A loss for John Battelle's company. Read >

Political Web Sites Post-Election Not Doing As Bad As You'd Think

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Which political sites are surviving the end of the election season? The Atlantic, Drudge, HuffPo. Read >

Huffington Post Hasn't Yet Raised $15 Million*

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TimesOnline and PaidContent report that deal is done. Source close to company tells us they are "wrong across the board." Read >

Puppycam Livestream: 4 Million Viewers

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Finally the world discovers how to make a global live streaming mega-hit.  Low production costs, too! Read >

New York Times (NYT) October Ghastly

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Slashing the dividend was a good first step, but it's not enough. Time to sell assets and cut more costs--before it's too late. Read >

Google Considers Buying Chrome Market Share (GOOG)

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Google could be putting its muscle behind Chrome: It's thinking about paying PC makers to pre-install the browser on new computers. Read >

TechCrunch Ad Rates Slashed 35%

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The recession slams online tech advertising. Read >

Facebook Gets SEC Stock Exemption To Keep Hiring

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Facebook won't have to disclose financial results after it reaches 500 shareholders, BusinessWeek discovers. No update on fundraising, though. Read >

Exclusive: Why Reuters Left Second Life, And How Linden Lab Can Fix It

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Is Second Life dying? No, but the buzz is gone. Here's what Linden Lab needs to do. Read >

Yahoo Dumps European Shopping Site On Private Equity Firm (YHOO)

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Yahoo sells Kelkoo for reportedly less than €100 million. It paid €475 million for it in 2004. Read >

LIVE: BlackBerry Storm Twitter (RIMM)

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Gearheads chime in with their first impressions -- and reports on how long the lines are. Read >

Disney (DIS) Capital Backing Chinese Pirates Who Rip Off Disney

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Why pay for a Disney DVD when you can watch stolen movies for free on Disney-backed 56.com? Read >

BlackBerry Storm Lines Boost RIM Shares (RIMM)

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As people wait in the cold to buy the new BlackBerry, Research In Motion is up 6% on the day. Read >

New York Times (NYT) Now Losing Business To Wall Street Journal

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Murdoch's kill-the-New-York-Times plan appears to be working: Luxury advertisers are defecting to the Wall Street Journal. Read >

Yahoo Staffer Launches Management Buyout

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We're thrilled to announce our Yahoo turnaround plan! Read >

Twitter's New MVP: Following Shaq Is Fun

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We don't want to jinx it, but the fact that an NBA player appears to be enjoying Twitter can't be bad for its hopes of mainstream adoption. Read >

Apple's iPhone Catches Up To Google 'GPhone' With Street View Maps (AAPL)

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Another free time waster for iPhone owners. Read >

BlackBerry Fans Line Up For Storm (RIMM)

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Not as crazy as iPhone day, but proof that the new BlackBerry will have a fan club. Read >

Verizon To Obama: Sorry For Looking At Your Cellphone Account (VZ)

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Not his infamous BlackBerry, just an old flip phone. But still creepy. Read >

Google Lets You Roll Your Own Search Results (GOOG)

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Could help push Google's search market share closer to 80%: "Customize search by re-ranking, deleting, adding, and commenting on search results." Read >

The New York Times (NYT) Slashes Dividend

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The Sulzbergers are going to feel this one. Read >

Microsoft: $20 Billion Of Cash Not Enough, So We're Borrowing More (MSFT)

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What does it need the money for?  Acquisitions?  World domination?  Or just to buy back boatloads of stock? Read >