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3 hrs ago | The Media Stock Blog

WSJ.com Could Lose 25% of Its Traffic if Murdoch Blocks Google

Whenever Rupert Murdoch goes back to his home country of Australia, he loosens up and says things to the press that he might not say in the U.S. Of course, everyone in the U.S. picks up on it and it becomes a big story, as it did Monday after Murdoch told his own Sky News that he might start blocking Google and other search engines from giving ...

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Related Topix: Startups, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Science / Technology, Internet

7 hrs ago | East Bay Business Times

Good opening weekend for Droid sales

Verizon Wireless sold about half of the Motorola's Droid smartphones it stocked over the weekend, analysts estimate.

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Related Topix: Wireless, Telecom, Motorola, Apple, Startups, Computers, Apple Computer, iPhone

12 hrs ago | CNN Money

Free WiFi in 47 airports! Thanks, Google

Google is planning to foot the bill for WiFi at 47 of the nation's airports for the rest of the year, beginning Tuesday.

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Related Topix: Startups, Wireless, Emerging Technology, Mountain View, CA

16 hrs ago | The Jason Calacanis Weblog

Google Chrome launches "incognito mode" (aka "porn...

Google Chrome launches "incognito mode" Ctrl+Shift+N In Google Chrome you can now hit Ctrl+Shift+N and have an anonymous browser session.

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Related Topix: Startups

20 hrs ago | Search Engine Roundtable

Sesame Street Count(s) Day 6 Trumps Berlin Wall Logo

Today, if you visit Google.com, you will see Count Von Count as the Google logo on the home page.

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Related Topix: Startups

Mon Nov 09, 2009

Vnunet

Murdoch madness: turning your back on Google

Rupert Murdoch is pursuing his plans to charge for his news content, and will turn his back on Google's news spiders and other aggregation sites.

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Related Topix: Startups

Philadelphia Business Journal

Comcast providing more funds to Clearwire

Clearwire Corp. is reportedly getting $1.5 billion in financing to help build out its wireless network, but Google Inc.

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Related Topix: Cable & Satellite, Comcast, Startups, Sprint, Telecom, IT Services, Semiconductors, Electronics, Intel, Philadelphia Consolidated Holding, Insurance, Philadelphia, PA

Minyanville

Google: Snobby, Sanctimonious, Loathsome

A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before but there is nothing to compare it to now.

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Related Topix: Startups, Google, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Software, Internet, Science / Technology, Mountain View, CA

Macworld UK

Yahoo follows Google onto China's porn offense list

A Chinese government watchdog has ordered Yahoo China to clean pornographic content from a photo-sharing site it hosted, a reminder of the regulatory challenges often faced by foreign Internet companies in China.

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Related Topix: Startups, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Alibaba, Science / Technology, Internet

The Tennessean

Google's bid to scan old books unites foes

Google's ambitious plan to scan millions of old, out-of-print books, many of them forgotten in musty university libraries, has turned into one of the biggest controversies in the young company's history.

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Related Topix: Startups, Google, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Software, Libraries, US News

Sun Nov 08, 2009

MarketWatch

AOL still a drag

Media giant Time Warner Inc. disclosed Wednesday that it's on track to spin off AOL as an independent entity, even as the Internet unit's finances continue to sour.

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Related Topix: Time Warner, Media, Computers, Yahoo!, Search Engines, Startups, Social Software, Emerging Technology

Money Morning

Hot Stocks: Googlea s Drive for Dominance Extends Into the Burgeoning Smartphone Market

Google Inc. was founded in 1996 and went on to become the undisputed king of Internet search and advertising.

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Related Topix: Startups, Google, Software, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Internet, Cell Phones, Science / Technology, Cellphones, Electronics

BNET

Google Drains Brains To Google Ventures

The news that Google Sites chief Joe Kraus has moved to Google Venture , Google's venture capital arm, is part of a larger strategy that has more to do with human resources than capital investments.

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Related Topix: Startups, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Venture Capital, Oracle, Software, Salesforce.com

Sat Nov 07, 2009

All Things Digital

Does Your Mom Edit Your Blog? Google Wants to Know. [MediaMemo]

Do a Google news search, for say, "Will Ferrell," and you'll see that the search giant has started labeling news items from blogs asnews items from blogs.

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Related Topix: Blog News, Startups, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Journalism

MarketWatch

Microsoft signs deal to boost AdSense rival

Microsoft Corp. said Monday it has signed a deal to expand the reach of a contextual online advertising service designed to compete with rival technology offered by Google Inc.

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Related Topix: Microsoft, Software, Startups, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Media, Yahoo!, Computers

Motley Fool

What's Wrong, AOL?

If something smells funny in Time Warner 's third-quarter report, it's the pungent odor of a rotting AOL.

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Related Topix: Time Warner, Media, Computers, United Online, Telecom, IT Services, Startups, Google, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Software, Yahoo!

All Things Digital

Droid Has Landed All Right-Right on Google's Homepage [Digital Daily]

"There will be no banner ads on the Google homepage or web search results pages.

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Related Topix: Startups, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Wireless, Telecom, Motorola

Fri Nov 06, 2009

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Will Google Books Settlement 2.0 quell concerns?

Monday is the deadline for Google Inc. and other parties in the landmark books lawsuit to submit a revised settlement proposal, but some already say it won't be enough to satisfy critics.

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Related Topix: Startups, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Libraries

BNET

Google Already Making Microsoft Mistakes It Wants To Avoid

Last night in a television interview, Google CEO Eric Schmidt , being questioned on avoiding antitrust challenges , said, "Hopefully we won't repeat the mistakes that Microsoft made, you know, 10 years ago that ultimately led to all these things that happened with them." Got news for you, Eric: You've already made them and continue to.

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Related Topix: Startups, Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Microsoft, Software, Laptops/Notebooks

InternetNews

Google, Ad Networks Tighten Privacy Controls

New offerings provide more detailed access and control over online data collection.

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Related Topix: Startups, Google, Software, Privacy, Home Listing, Home, US Politics, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Rick Boucher, Science / Technology

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