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Yahoo buys Whereonearth to bolster local search — LONDON (Reuters) - Yahoo said on Tuesday it has acquired a small UK company called Whereonearth to help improve its local search and mobile phone services and compete more effectively with search leader Google.
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Annalee Newitz / Wired News:
DVD Jon Lands Dream Job Stateside — SAN FRANCISCO — Jon Lech Johansen, the 21-year-old Norwegian media hacker nicknamed DVD Jon, is moving to San Diego to work for maverick tech entrepreneur Michael Robertson in what can only be described as the most portentous team-up since Butch met Sundance.
Jon Ann Steinmetz / siliconvalley.com:
Google Earth digs deeper — MAP SERVICE IN TALKS WITH COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE DATA FIRM — Commercial real estate's largest data provider is working with Google to integrate its vast stores of building information with the Google Earth interactive satellite mapping service.
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Nick / Rough Type:
The law of the wiki — The Register's Andrew Orlowski finds "encouraging signs from the Wikipedia project, where co-founder and überpedian Jimmy Wales has acknowledged there are real quality problems with the online work." Noting that up to now "criticism from outside the Wikipedia camp …
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three.co.uk:
3 announces 'dual download' for music — In a move that sees the battle for the digital music market hot up further, mobile media company 3 today announced that every audio track its customers download to mobile handsets will also be available online for no extra charge.
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searchenginelowdown.com:
MSN Adcenter Beta - Preview — Microsoft has begun its paid search pilot program by rolling out its' beta pay-per-click interface, a product they call AdCenter. In order to review thier product I signed up for an account via their Singapore page. — At first glance, AdCenter is reminiscent …
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Dan Nystedt / PC World:
Taiwan Tests Island-Wide WiMax — Government teams with Intel to build largest testing ground for new wireless technology. — TAIPEI — Taiwanese government officials said on Monday they plan to make Taiwan the world's largest testing ground for WiMax, and inked a pact with Intel …
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David Beisel / Genuine VC:
Seven Questions Employees Should Ask Before Joining a Startup — In continuing what is turning out to be my "list of sevens" series (see also: Seven Reasons To Become a Founding Entrepreneur and Seven Founding Sins), I wanted to list seven questions which prospective employees that should ask before joining a startup.
Greg Hoglund / rootkit.com:
KEEPING BLIZZARD HONEST - Announcing the release of 'The Governor' — hoglund writes: Blizzard, a subsidary of Vivendi, builds and markets the popular computer game known as World of Warcraft, which claims more than 4.5 million players worldwide. Unknown to most players is the fact that World …
Stone Lion / NewsForge:
Three reasons why Internet-based applications are a bad idea — By: Robin 'Roblimo' Miller — We've all heard the hype about how Sun and Google may someday, somehow, produce a version of StarOffice or OpenOffice.org that you'll access online through your browser instead of installing an office suite on your hard drive.
Mike / Techdirt:
Built To Flip As Your Resume? — With so much buzz going on around the idea of a new bubble, some people are trying to figure out what it all means, and how it will shake out. While some VCs are distancing themselves from the situation by claiming this time it's an entrepreneur-created bubble instead …
microsoft.com:
Shared Source Licenses — On This Page — Microsoft Permissive License (Ms-PL) — Overview — Over the past 5 years, more than 80 technologies have been made available through Microsoft's Shared Source Initiative. Additionally, more than 600 non-Microsoft technologies have been released under a Shared Source license.
Tim Weber / BBC:
Google drops Gmail address in UK — Gmail, the free e-mail service run by internet search giant Google, will change its name for new UK users. — Following a trademark dispute the mail account will be renamed Google Mail. — London-based Independent International Investment Research …
Edward Wyatt / New York Times:
Google Opens 8 Sites in Europe, Widening Its Book Search Effort — FRANKFURT, Oct. 17 - Google said Monday that it had begun operating local-language sites in eight European countries for its Google Print program, its closely watched effort to make all of the world's books searchable online …
Kevin Newcomb / ClickZ:
McDonald's Dips Toe In Blogging Waters — While the McDonald's Corporation has not jumped headfirst into blogging, it certainly is further along the path of acceptance than many companies of its size. — Last week, the company began an internal program that introduced corporate blogs …
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digitalproducer.com:
National Geographic DMG Creates Short-Form Production Unit — License agreement signed with MSN — National Geographic's Digital Media Group has launched a short-form production unit to create premium video content specifically for the broadband marketplace.
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