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DealBook / New York Times: DealBook - 15 hours, 29 minutes ago
Another View: Mark Cuban Nabbed. So What? - Peter J. Henning, a colleague of Steven M. Davidoff, offers this view of the insider trading case against Mark Cuban. Mr. Henning is a professor at Wayne State Law School in Detroit where he specializes in white-collar crime.
CNET News.com, Valleywag, VentureBeat, Yahoo! Finance: Tech Ticker, New York Times

The Register - 1 day 33 minutes ago
Nvidia pitches Tesla GPU-as-CPU tech 'personal supercomputer' - This time it's real, apparentlyNvidia has introduced a desktop computer architecture based on its Tesla graphics chip and it's calling the system the first "real" desktop supercomputer.…
GigaOM, BetaNews, San Jose Mercury News, Wired Top Stories, InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs, CNET News.com, DailyTech

Jennifer Leggio / ZDNet Blogs - 16 hours, 57 minutes ago
Social media marketers can - and must - prove ROI - This post is a warning for folks that they need to end their debating before they are fired, or as we like to call it during these times "downsized."

In-Depth
Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins / Mashable! - 1 day, 6 hours, 25 minutes ago
Just What is Social Media, Exactly? - What is social media, and is social media actually media in the traditional sense of the word?  This is the question Jeffrey and Brian Eisenberg take on and try to decisively answer at their marketing firm’s company blog. They say...


Mike Schramm / The Unofficial Apple Weblog - 22 hours, 23 minutes ago
Prototype MacBook Air found on eBay - Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Hardware, MacBook Air This is probably old news for most classic Mac collectors, but it's the first I've heard of it: a member of the forums at MacRumors.com bought a MacBook Air "as is" on eBay, and when...
MacRumors.com, Tech Blog

Silicon Alley Insider - 17 hours, 38 minutes ago
Amazon's CDN Won't Hurt Akamai Or Limelight -- Not Yet, At Least - Amazon (AMZN) announced the roll-out of its long-expected content delivery service, calling it "Cloudfront." One common reaction: The service will disrupt CDN leaders Akamai (AKAM) or Limelight (LLNW).
Contentinople:

Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily - 22 hours, 39 minutes ago
Baidu: Citi Downgrades To Sell After CCTV Expose -
The Register

ITWeb Internet Feed - 2 hours, 59 minutes ago
Cyber crime costs billions annually - E-crime could wreak as much havoc as the credit crisis if international regulation is not improved.

Silicon Alley Insider - 1 day, 14 hours, 48 minutes ago
Sirius XM Hits New Low: 20 Cents - Bad day for satellite radio broadcaster Sirius XM: The company's shares are down 13% today to 20 cents -- an all-time low. Why? There doesn't seem to be any Sirius corporate news today, so we're pretty sure it's mostly a reflection of...

In-Depth
CNNMoney.com - 16 hours, 18 minutes ago
Sirius XM at 17 cents - look out below - "Brother, can you spare a dime?" During the Great Depression, ten cents could buy a little something for those really hard up.


Nilay Patel / Engadget - 5 days, 11 hours, 51 minutes ago
AMD says it's "ignoring" netbooks, will focus on ultraportables - Filed under: LaptopsIt seemed earlier this week that AMD's new Conesus chips would take on Intel's dominant Atom platform in the netbook market, but it sounds like that was just wishful thinking -- according to CEO Dirk Meyer, the...
Gizmodo, Computerworld, EETimes, TheStreet.com: Business Wire, Yahoo! News (Wire Services), TheStreet.com, Network World, Between the Lines, VentureBeat, Silicon Alley Insider, Startup Meme, ZDNet Blogs, ChannelWeb

matt buchanan / Gizmodo - 5 days, 12 hours, 13 minutes ago
Get Ready for Cheap Nvidia Graphics Cards - ATI has been hitting Nvidia hard with its 4000-series big guns like the Radeon HD 4870 X2, and they're starting to feel it, with ATI successfully clawing away marketshare from Nvidia. Which has Nvidia skurred.
Electronista, DigiTimes, San Jose Mercury News

TheStreet.com: Business Wire - 6 days, 19 hours, 24 minutes ago
Verizon Wireless to Sell Storm at iPhone Price - The carrier will launch Research in Motion's new touch-screen BlackBerry later this month with a price equal to that of Apple's iPhone 3G.
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs, ZDNet Blogs, Between the Lines

Arnold Zafra / Search Engine Journal - 7 days, 10 hours, 57 minutes ago
Google Brings Sponsored Videos on YouTube Search - YouTube is yet again embarking on a revenue scheme in the hopes of generating income from its existence on the web, and being the number 1, video sharing site for that matter. It will soon be rolling out Sponsored Videos.
Marketing Pilgrim, Search Engine Watch Blog

CNET News.com - 7 days, 15 hours, 26 minutes ago
YouTube enabling advertisers to buy search terms on site - YouTube is getting serious about generating cash from all the video on its site and is now allowing users promote video as well as bid on keywords.
Yahoo! News (Wire Services), NYT > Media & Advertising

Al Costanzo / Search Engine Journal - 8 days, 19 hours, 17 minutes ago
Google Releases First Page Bid Estimates in version 13 of the AdWords API - Last week’s new release of AdWords API has a feature that many have been waiting for: “First Page Bid Estimates”.
Search Engine Watch Blog, WebProNews

Kathryn Glass / FOXBusiness.com - 9 days, 13 hours, 15 minutes ago
Starbucks Misses Earnings Estimates - Starbucks surprised no one when it missed earnings estimates on Monday, detailing declining profit and weakening same store sales in the fiscal fourth quarter.
TheStreet.com

David Kaplan / paidContent.org - 6 days, 3 hours, 52 minutes ago
Invest Like It's 1998: Microsoft Stock Hits 10-Year Low; 30 Percent Decline From First Yahoo Offer - Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) stock hit its lowest point in 10 years on Thursday— $18.74—when the tech sector took hits from Cisco (NSDQ: CSCO) and Intel (NSDQ: INTC), before coming back to close at $21.25.

Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch - 6 days, 12 hours, 4 minutes ago
Social Network Apps To Finally Monetize Within The Year - Today at OpenSocial's first birthday event, a group of press, developers, and members of the OpenSocial team convened to discuss the future of the platform.

Svetlana Gladkova / Profy.Com - 3 hours, 3 minutes ago
Gmail Looks Better and Less Geeky Now With Themes - The latest buzz from Google is the newly-launched Gmail themes that allow every user to choose exactly how your Gmail application will look like in your browser.

Search Engine Watch Blog - 2 days, 5 hours, 53 minutes ago
SEW Experts: SEO Dreams are Made of This - Many major companies continue to make mistakes with their Web sites that hurt their search engine rankings. They target pages in the wrong way, or don't craft their pages in a way to prevent searchers from leaving their site after the...
WebProNews, SEOmoz Daily SEO Blog

Search Engine Watch Blog - 1 day, 18 hours, 38 minutes ago
Matt Cutts Video Interview on SESConferenceExpo’s Channel - During Search Engine Strategies San Jose back in August, I did a video interview with Matt Cutts, head of Google’s Webspam team.
WebProNews

Jennifer Leggio / ZDNet Blogs - 16 hours, 57 minutes ago
Social media marketers can - and must - prove ROI - This post is a warning for folks that they need to end their debating before they are fired, or as we like to call it during these times "downsized."
ReadWriteWeb, Mashable!, MediaPost

Search Engine Watch Blog - 13 hours, 50 minutes ago
Workshops Offered by Direct Marketing Association and TopRank Online Marketing - TopRank Online Marketing and the Direct Marketing Association have just announced a partnership to develop and deliver a series of educational workshops on social media marketing entitled, "Social Media Smarts: Introduction to the Social...

Sarah Milstein / O'Reilly Radar - 2 days, 3 hours, 7 minutes ago
Twitter's Hockey Stick Moment? - Over the weekend, TechCrunch postulated that with a frenzy of election-related activity, Twitter hit its hockey stick moment in late October. The theory goes that Twitter saw a 25 percent increase in U.S.

EETimes - 1 day, 18 hours, 43 minutes ago
Broadcom says Qualcomm held in contempt of injunction - A federal judge found Qualcomm in contempt of an injunction entered last December that was designed to prevent the company from infringement of two patents, according to Broadcom.
BetaNews

Silicon Alley Insider - 5 days, 22 hours, 14 minutes ago
Spam Down 75% After ISPs Shutdown Host - Maybe you've been inundated by emails from spammers like Pills-pay.com or Pay4pills.com in the past? No longer. Worldwide spam is down 75% since Tuesday, when a Washington Post investigation led Internet service-providers Global Crossing...
All Things Digital

InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs - 1 day, 14 hours, 35 minutes ago
German MP Drops Wikipedia Lawsuit - Lutz Heilmann says he's satisfied now that offensive content about him has been removed.