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Dick / Burning Questions:
Burnvelopes? No, FeedBurner Email — It turns out that not everybody is quite ready to ditch the old Inbox just yet. People like to be notified when their favorite publishers have something new posted, but a large audience still finds the familiar setting of email to be the most comfortable and reliable way to receive updates.
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B2Day, RussellBeattie.com, Digital Inspiration, Make Money Online …, Niall Kennedy's Weblog and Download Squad
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Red Herring:
Facebook Gets Another $25M — Greylock Partners leads new investment round in social network site as its valuation soars. — Privately held Facebook received $25 million in its second round of venture financing Wednesday to help the social network web site expand features for sharing information as its market value soars.
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Bambi Francisco:
Facebook funding — Facebook received $25 million in funding for a $525 million pre-money valuation. — Nice work for Mark Zuckerberg, who in February 2004 started Facebook in his college dorm. Back then, he paid $85 a month for three months to get his startup going.
Business Week:
Social Networking's Gold Rush — The movement continues to defy doubters and draw big investments. The latest includes $25 million for a piece of Facebook — Just a few months ago, many experts and investors were inclined to dismiss social networking sites as a mere fad.
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Apple:
Apple Reports Second Quarter Results — Revenue Grows 34 Percent Year-over-Year; Earnings Increase 41 Percent — CUPERTINO, California—April 19, 2006—Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2006 second quarter ended April 1, 2006. The Company posted revenue …
Michael Bazeley / SiliconBeat:
With $13.5 million from Fox, Simply Hired is simply on a roll — It seemed like only yesterday when we were introduced to Simply Hired in a scratchy phone call with management (we were in an East Bay parking lot seeking a decent cell phone signal). We were a bit underwhelmed at the time …
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Associated Press:
Rights group says Yahoo gave China information used to jail a third Chinese user — BEIJING (AP) — Yahoo (YHOO) turned over a draft e-mail from one of its users to Chinese authorities, who used the information to jail the man on subversion charges, according to the verdict from his 2003 trial released Wednesday by a rights group.
Michael Bazeley / SiliconBeat:
ShopWiki tries to push into shopping search space — The shopping comparison site space seemed crowded a couple of years ago. But Shopzilla honed its way in, eventually selling to E. W. Scripps for $525 million last summer. Is there room for yet another player? ShopWiki, a start-up out of New York, hopes so.
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Mashable*, ComparisonEngines.com, Search Engine Watch Blog, SharkJumping and Clickety Clack
David Kirkpatrick / CNN:
Microsoft's new brain — Brutal competition. A stock going nowhere. Microsoft is in crisis, so Bill Gates has unleashed his new hire, software genius Ray Ozzie, to remake the company - and conquer the Web. — (FORTUNE Magazine) - Last June, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer summoned …
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B2Day, OakLeaf Systems, IP Democracy, Business Filter, JD on EP, Microsoft News Tracker and Joho the Blog
Paul Thurrott / winsupersite.com:
Windows Vista February 2006 CTP (Build 5308/5342) Review, Part 5: Where Vista Fails — I still remember the day very clearly. It was Monday, October 27, 2003. Several thousand developers—and, let's face it, quite a few garden variety Windows enthusiasts—charged into Hall …
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Silicon Valley Sleuth
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Alan Meckler versus Jason Calacanis — What: Wall Street Journal is hosting an e-debate between Alan Meckler, chief executive of Jupiter Media, and Jason Calacanis of Weblogs Inc. (now part of AOL, a dvision of Time Warner) The debate is about can bloggers make money and a living off their blogging efforts.
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duncanriley.com, B.L. Ochman's weblog, Message, Mark Evans, mathewingram.com/work and InterMedia
Yahoo! Publisher Network:
It Pay the Bills — Yahoo!'s resident toublemaker weighs in on the past and present of contextual advertising — When people can't think of anything particularly good to say about their job, I often hear "well, it pays the bills...", which often elicits a response of "yup" and a knowing nod.
Stefanie Olsen / CNET News.com:
Kids outsmart Web filters — Last November, Ryan, a high-school sophomore, figured out a way to outsmart the Web filters on a school PC in order to visit the off-limits MySpace.com while doing "homework" in the computer lab. — A teacher eventually spotted the social network on the screen in front of …
Eleanor Mayne / macnewsworld.com:
MP3 Inventor Could've Been a Contender — "The iPod is the world's fastest selling electrical equipment ever," said early MP3 inventor Kane Kramer, "and I suppose, in a way, I am the world's biggest failure." Although he lost his patents in the '80s, Kramer is consulting lawyers to see whether …
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Techdirt
Monica Chen / digitimes.com:
Intel preferred over VIA for UMPCs — Market sources indicated that Microsoft originally planned to partner with VIA Technologies to promote its "Origami" Ultra-Mobile PC (UMPC), as VIA's C7-M embedded processor is priced at US$700-800, compared to the Intel Celeron M and Pentium M series at US$1,200-1,400.
Amanda Cantrell / CNN:
Apple investors look for Intel effect — When company reports results Wednesday, analysts will have a close eye on sales of new Macs. — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - When Apple reports its second-quarter earnings Wednesday, investors and analysts will watch closely for evidence of how the company's switch to Intel chips is panning out.
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Gizmodo, The Gadget Blog:
GSM-based, Windows Mobile 5-toting Treo — Some hawt spy photos of the new Windows Mobile Treo or just fuzzy pictures of someone's painted Sidekick? You decide. — It seems that a temporary "test engineer"—can you hire those guys at Adecco?—was going off about a new WM5 Treo with GSM …
