There's a bit of a hole in the pay wall set up by Newsday, the Long Island newspaper owned by Cablevision Systems: users with defunct Optimum Online broadband accounts have been able to log in to read the news, too.
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David Kaplan
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PaidContent
Impact Radius , a company that promises to tie together cross-platform performance ad programs, has raised a $6 million first round funding led by Redpoint Ventures. The Santa Barbara company is currently in beta in the U.S. and UK. Impact Radius will use the proceeds to support marketing efforts aimed at advertisers, media companies and agencies.
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Joseph Tartakoff
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Online Buzz Tracker Visible Technologies Gets $22 Million More
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Visible Technologies , which helps companies track what people are saying about them online, has raised $22 million in a third round of funding led by new investor Investor Growth Capital; existing investors Centurion Holdings, Ignition Partners, In-Q-Tel and WPP also participated. The new funding means that the company will have now raised more ...
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Joseph Tartakoff
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PaidContent
Get Satisfaction Raises $2.3 Million For Customer Service Communities
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Get Satisfaction , a startup that hosts online customer service communities, has raised $2.3 million in a funding round, we have confirmed with the company. With Get Satisfaction, anybody can set up a customer service forum in order to interact with others who have purchased products at the same business; companies can also pay to create their ...
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ANDREW JACOBS
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The officials’ remarks suggested that China was unlikely to give ground on Google’s demands to ease censorship.
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The Google news: China enters its Bush-Cheney era
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I have not yet been able to reach my friends in China to discuss this story, and for now I am judging the Google response strictly by what the company has posted on its "Official Blog," here, and my observations from dealing with Google-China officials while overseas. Therefore this will epitomize the web-age reaction to a breaking news story, in ...
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Engadget
The last we heard, Nintendo's super-sized DSi XL (or DSi LL if you're Japanese) would be hitting the Colonies sometime in the first quarter of 2010. As of now we have no information contrary to that, but we do have news specifying when the European nobility will get theirs: March 5. That means UK gamers have less than two months to determine ...
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Nintendo DSi XL To Launch On 5 March
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Nintendo has finally revealed the launch date for its Nintendo DSi XL for Europe which is now due to hits British shop shelves on 5 March. As many of you will know from coverage of the Japanese launch of the DSi XL, this latest version is bigger than the current gen model.
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ERIC PFANNER
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NYT
The French government is offering support to Google’s book digitalization program in exchange for a tax to support the music industry.
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French retailers revolt against e-book hegemony
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Like them or not, e-books are here to stay. Personally, I don’t like them — but that’s mainly because e-book readers have been ugly, clumsy, and limited in function and selection. The tidal wave of readers we saw at CES, however, suggests that even die-hard curmudgeons like myself may soon be among the faithful. What this means, ...
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TechCrunch
If ticketing startup Eventbrite wants to become the Ticketmaster of do-it-yourself events, it just added a new board member who might have some ideas on how to get there. The company just added Sean Moriarty to its board of directors. Moriarty was previously the CEO of Ticketmaster, which he helped build into an events juggernaut between 2005 ...
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Google Hires Former Enfatico CEO Boone To Manage Agency Development
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Google ( NSDQ: GOOG ) has hired ad industry vet Torrence Boone as managing director for agency development in North America, Ad Age reported . Although Google is not considered the “frenemy” it once was by the major ad agencies, the search giant’s ability to reach out has been hampered for the past six months since its previous ...
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Jan. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Yahoo! Inc., owner of the No. 2 search engine in the U.S., was targeted by a Chinese attack similar to the one that affected Google Inc., according to a person familiar with the matter.
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Tim Stevens
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Engadget
When the PS3 was announced so many moons ago, one of the major functions that was touted about the thing would be its ability to record and process high-definition video. It's taken quite some time to get there, with the oft-delayed PlayTV tuner finally hitting Europe in late 2008, though the rest of the world still got left out in the cold. Sony'
MG Siegler
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TechCrunch
People love Blippy . Well, they love to talk about Blippy . And complain about it. And argue that it's the end of privacy as we know it. But some people do actually love Blippy, the service which lets you share you credit card transactions with the world. In fact, a number of investors do, as the service has just raised a $1.6 million round of ...
SIMON ROMERO
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NYT
Huge swaths of Port-au-Prince lay in ruins, and thousands of people were feared dead in the rubble.
The President has been receiving updates on the urgent situation in Haiti late into last night and this morning, and top members of his team have been convening to formulate the government response.
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Free browsers that properly support web standards include:
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NICK BILTON
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The director of Expert Labs, an initiative that aims to connect government projects with citizens who want to become more involved in the political discussion, discusses the White House's using URL shorteners and working with the government to start apps.
For years the central question when any new television technology comes out is whether explicit entertainment providers will adopt it. In the case of 3D TV, friends, there’s no question: 3D TV is here and its here to stay… but will it be popular? We talked to someone close to the industry, Kathee Brewer, who offered some insight on ...
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