Mashable!:
For those who’d like to turn the American Music Awards into a more social experience, don’t forget that the pre-show is streaming live on Facebook today, with full integration of Facebook status updates. As a viewer, you can post your own live commentary into your Facebook news feed and read status updates on the event fro (Read More)
Reuters:
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp has had talks with News Corp about a tie up, which would involve News Corp getting paid to take its news websites off Google Inc, a source familiar with the matter said on Sunday.
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paidContent.org:
—Atlantic Media: Former U.S. editor of Reuters.com Adam Pasick will be heading up the new digital media brand from The Atlantic publishing group, launching in “early 2010.” Along with being U.S. editor, Pasick was also the bureau chief of Reuters (NYSE: TRI) Second Life, editor of Reuters Deals and editorial representative (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Over the past decade, Amazon.com and eBay have continued to dominate the online retail market in the United States. However, there have been signs that more social and distributed forms of online shopping are gaining traction. eBay, in particular, is beginning to lose ground. In this post, we review the past decade of e-com (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Phil Schiller, Apple’s SVP of Worldwide Product Marketing, is back on his one-man crusade to defend the App Store from the latest wave of criticism pointed in its direction.This time, Apple is having to battle the news of Facebook’s all-star developer Joe Hewitt quitting the platform, more high profile app rejections, and t (Read More)
Reuters:
NEW YORK (Reuters) - eBay Inc said on Sunday it had restored a search function on its website overnight Saturday after a glitch led to searches returning either limited or no results throughout the day.
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paidContent.org:
The next battle in the search wars could be over access to news content. The FT reports that Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT)—which has made increasing the market share of its Bing search engine its top online priority—has reached out to “big online publishers” in order to get them to p (Read More)
Engadget:
Roku owners already have access to Netflix, Amazon Video On Demand and MLB.tv, but now the set-top box is about to get a lot more interesting. Starting tonight and running throughout the next fortnight, existing owners of the Roku SD, Roku HD and Roku HD-XR will receive an automatic (and free) update that delivers ten new c (Read More)
Mashable!:
It all started with Verizon’s “There’s a map for that” ads that emphasized the poor 3G coverage provided by AT&T. Next came a lawsuit from AT&T, claiming the ads were misleading, and a series of holiday-themed ads from the Verizon camp. Finally, AT&T decided to hit back with an ad of its own, bringing in actor Luke Wilson (Read More)
Gizmodo:
When I think escalating mega cellphone carrier ad war, I think actor Luke Wilson. Oh wait, no I don't, and yet here he is, again, striking back on behalf of AT&T against Verizon Wireless. Now, good on AT&T for fighting back with more ads and not more silly lawsuits and all, but the Verizon holiday ad lineup is pretty stro (Read More)
Engadget:
Not kosher with getting a handset tailor made for DJing? How's about transforming your existing iPhone into that very device when the mood strikes you? Hailed as the first true DJ MP3 iPhone / iPod touch app in the world, Amidio's $19.99 Touch DJ program (available now) enables users to independently manipulate two MP3 or M (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
Microsoft wants to pay News Corp (NWS) and other large publishers to de-list their Web sites from Google's (GOOG) search index, the Financial Times reports.
The idea is to force Google (GOOG) to pay for content, thinning its currently fat margins.Join the conversation about this story »
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Huffington Post:
Microsoft has had discussions with News Corp over a plan that would involve the media company's being paid to "de-index" its news websites from Google, setting the scene for a search engine battle that could offer a ray of light to the newspaper industry.
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Gizmodo:
When Roku released their new HD-XR box, they mentioned that big new features would be launched in the coming weeks via software update. Now the Roku Channel Store is finally here, but it's awfully short on excitement. The Roku Channel Store is an open platform for delivering content to Roku boxes beyond the already-integrat (Read More)