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Saul Hansell / New York Times:
Time Warner Plans to Sell 5% of AOL to Google — Rebuffing aggressive overtures from Microsoft, Time Warner has agreed to sell a 5 percent stake in America Online to Google for $1 billion as part of an expanded partnership between AOL, once the dominant company on the Internet, and Google, the current online king.
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David A. Vise / Washington Post:
Google Buying Stake in AOL for $1 Billion — Google Inc. is buying a 5 percent stake in Dulles-based America Online for $1 billion as part of a far-reaching business and advertising partnership that will link the two companies in many ways and will greatly enhance AOL's financial prospects …
Wall Street Journal:
Google Zooms Past Microsoft To Near an Ad Deal With AOL — Search Giant Offers $1 Billion — To Time Warner for a Stake, — Closer Ties on Sales Front — A Year of Intense Jockeying — Google Inc. neared a deal with Time Warner Inc.'s America Online Friday that would help cement …
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Search Engine Roundtable
Reuters:
Time Warner in exclusive talks with Google on AOL — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Time Warner Inc. is in exclusive talks with Web search leader Google Inc. about broadening a partnership with Time Warner's AOL online unit, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.
CNET News.com:
AOL to stick with Google — update Google may pay $1 billion for a 5 percent stake in America Online as part of an exclusive deal with Time Warner that would strengthen ties with the search giant instead of dumping Google for Microsoft. — As part of the current negotiations with Google …
BBC:
Google 'in exclusive AOL talks' — Google shares have hit record highs on reports it could take a stake in Time Warner's internet unit, AOL. — Under the deal, Google would pay $1bn (£565m) for a 5% stake in AOL, the Wall Street Journal website has reported. The two firms have declined to comment.
Michael Sippey / Six Apart:
Update on TypePad Issues — Here is an update on the current issues we're experiencing with TypePad. — Most importantly, we want you to know that your blog data is safe. We have no reason to believe that any of your posts, comments, TrackBacks, photos or files have been lost.
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Michael Sippey / Six Apart:
Current Issues with TypePad — During routine maintenance of our network and storage systems last night, we experienced an issue with our primary disk system where data from published blogs are stored. We are currently running diagnostics on the device, and working to restore your data as soon as possible.
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michael parekh on IT, Microsoft Monitor, FeedBlitz News, The Intuitive Life …, The Consumerist and Netcraft
Matthew Fordahl / Associated Press:
Microsoft Sued Over Patent Infringements — SAN JOSE, Calif. - Visto Corp., a maker of mobile e-mail technology, has sued Microsoft Corp. for allegedly infringing on three of its patents related to how information is handled between servers and handheld devices such as cellular phones.
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Michael Kanellos / CNET News.com:
Start-up merges cell phone and PC into a handheld — It's a cell phone. It's a computer. It's the two invaluable companions of the modern executive in one. — DualCor Technologies next month will unveil the cPC, a full-fledged handheld Windows XP computer that also comes with a built-in smart phone that runs Windows Mobile 5.0.
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jkOnTheRun, Mobile Analyst Watch, Daily Wireless, VoIP Blog and Life On the Wicked Stage
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Arik Hesseldahl / Business Week:
Will Apple Push "Intel Inside"? — It sure is hard to imagine Jobs & Co. putting the chipmaker's ubiquitous logo on their gleaming machines — or in their ads — The coming year for Apple Computer (AAPL) is full of questions, and many of them are connected one way or another with the switch …
Sandy / blog.meebo.com:
did you hear? — Did you hear? — Okay, so Elaine, Seth, and I have never been the cool, popular kids in high school, so we're not really used to being the center of attention. Seth was the kid with asthma. Sandy had crazy bangs and braces. Elaine actually wore knickers to school one day.
The TNL.net weblog:
Getting to Know You — Google's introduction of new extensions for Firefox is all about knowing more about some users. — This week, Google introduced two new Firefox extensions: Google Safe Browsing and Blogger Web Comments which are providing richer integration with the desktop and a number …
Tim Harford / Slate:
The Great Xbox Shortage of 2005 — Why you can't buy the one present you really need. — Gaming enthusiasts camp outside electronics stores, desperate to buy the hot new game console. Corporate flacks are deployed to fend off PR calamity: "Consumer demand for the new console has exceeded …
BBC:
eBay faces up to online fraud — The online auctioneer eBay has admitted an "extreme growth" in the number of personal accounts being hijacked by fraudsters. — Criminals are obtaining the secret passwords of eBay subscribers and using their sites to conduct bogus auctions for non-existent goods.
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The Consumerist
Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
The Day is Darkest Before the Dawn — A small Internet company you might be familiar with raced to address a mammoth crisis. The relatively young firm took its system down for scheduled routine maintenance as it tried to install the technology it desparately needed for future growth.
