Friday, November 21, 2008 - 3:51 pm EST
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Bilal Hameed / Startup Meme - 1 day, 6 hours, 7 minutes ago
Akamai to Let Go 7% of Its Workforce - Akamai, the content delivery network has announced that it would be laying off 110 employees or about 7% of its workforce, according to an SEC Filing.
CNET News.com, NewTeeVee, Network World

Peter Kafka / All Things Digital - 23 hours, 41 minutes ago
Media Layoff Of The Day: Associated Press Cutting 10% - Media company layoffs are now the rule, not the exception, but this one is still noteworthy: The Associated Press, the workhorse of U.S. journalism, is firing 10% of its staff, or about 400 people.
FOXBusiness.com, San Jose Mercury News

Steve Gelsi / FOXBusiness.com - 1 day, 6 hours, 12 minutes ago
Energy Stocks Resume Their Slide - Energy Stocks Resume Their Slide
MarketWatch, CNNMoney.com

Ars Technica - 3 hours, 6 minutes ago
Coupons, Inc. drops DMCA lawsuit against coupon hacker - A copyright lawsuit against a man who posted instructions on how to print unlimited coupons online has finally been dropped after he argued that he didn't circumvent anyone's copyright protection in order to produce his "hack."Read......

Matt Burns / CrunchGear - 1 day, 8 hours, 22 minutes ago
Starbuck addict? Make a tie fighter. - Some people make trash and others make Star Wars papercraft like Dan Winters from WIRED. It took - holy crap - 216 stirrers, 63 drink sleeves, 37 grande cups, 12 small sample cups, ten large 96oz coffee boxes, and one tall lid...

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Tech Blog - 1 day, 3 hours, 51 minutes ago
Tie Fighter Made From Starbuck's Materials - Now that you've seen the Starbuck's coffee cup speakers, check out this nifty Tie Fighter, which is comprised of "1 tall lid, 12 small sample cups, 37 grande cups, 63 drink sleeves, 10 of those large 96oz.


CNNMoney.com - 4 hours, 23 minutes ago
Why cheap gas can't save the economy - The stock market stinks like a moldy piece of Limburger cheese. Unemployment is on the rise. Home prices continue to fall. There are fears that one or more of Detroit's Big Three could go bankrupt.

Seattle Times - 9 hours, 11 minutes ago
Survey shows euro-zone economy shrinking in Nov - The downturn in the euro-zone economy, particularly within the manufacturing sector, gathered pace in November amid mounting recession fears and the deepening financial crisis, a closely watched survey showed Friday.

Stan Schroeder / Mashable! - 9 hours, 41 minutes ago
Here Comes The New StumbleUpon - Social browsing site StumbleUpon is preparing a new version. Beta users were able to see some of the new features, but now StumbleUpon has temporarily “degraded” them back to the old version of the site in order to prepare for...

Svetlana Gladkova / Profy.Com - 9 hours, 58 minutes ago
PayPal Now in 8 More Languages but Still Half Usable for Many - PayPal is one of the most important web services for freelancers - that’s what I learned long ago when working as a freelance translator and persuading my international clients to go through all the hassle involved in sending money...

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InfoWorld - 3 days, 4 hours, 3 minutes ago
Nvidia announces 'personal supercomputer' - Hardware maker Nvidia has announced a new computer that has the power of a cluster of computers at a small fraction of the cost.Nvidia, working with several partners, has developed the Tesla Personal Supercomputer, powered by a graphics...
eWeek, VentureBeat, Ars Technica, GigaOM, SiliconValley.com, InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs

Nilay Patel / Engadget - 6 days, 21 hours, 49 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...
ZDNet Blogs, Gizmodo, Macworld UK News, Computerworld, EETimes, TheStreet.com, Network World, TheStreet.com: Business Wire, VentureBeat, ChannelWeb

eWeek - 2 hours, 29 minutes ago
RIM's BlackBerry Storm Smartphone Draws Hundreds at Verizon Wireless Store - Research in Motion's BlackBerry Storm, aimed at competing against Apple's iPhone and other smartphones, drew hundreds of people to Verizon Wireless stores looking to pick up the smartphone.

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NYT > Media & Advertising - 8 days, 13 hours, 45 minutes ago
YouTube to Sell Advertising on Pages of Search Results - Google said that it would begin selling space on YouTube search-results pages to advertisers, part of its effort to turn its acquisition into a major revenue producer.
Search Engine Journal, Marketing Pilgrim, Yahoo! News (Wire Services), Search Engine Watch Blog

Justin Smith / Inside Facebook - 8 days, 11 hours, 14 minutes ago
Facebook Advertising Update: New Reports for Advertisers - While Facebook’s self-serve advertising solutions allow marketers to experiment with Facebook advertising for as little as $1.00/day or $0.01/click, getting reports at the ad or campaign level has not been the easiest process.Today,...
paidContent.org

Nick O'Neill / All Facebook - 9 days 24 minutes ago
Facebook Announces New Advertising Metrics - Today Facebook sent an email out to their advertisers about three new types of Insights reports that will help advertisers understand how their advertisements are performing.
MediaPost

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Douglas McIntyre / BloggingStocks - 14 days, 10 hours, 50 minutes ago
Ballmer says "no" to Yahoo! - Filed under: Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), Yahoo! (YHOO)Yahoo!'s (NASDAQ:YHOO) stock has been up a bit in the last two days as the market fell apart. The theory behind it was simple.
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs

Rafat Ali / paidContent.org - 9 days, 14 hours, 6 minutes ago
Verizon Wireless Search Deal: Microsoft Closing on It; Guarantees May Cross $500M Mark - Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is close to edging out Google (NSDQ: GOOG) on a search deal, finally, and this one is on the mobile side: it is close to finalizing its deal to become the default search provider on the carrier's phones, and is even...
Between the Lines

Kathryn Glass / FOXBusiness.com - 10 days, 23 hours, 13 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

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Anthony Ha / VentureBeat - 1 day, 23 hours, 20 minutes ago
Add color to your Gmail account with Themes - Looks like Google’s webmail service Gmail is getting a little more colorful — users can customize their accounts with themes. Not all Gmail users can see it yet, but it looks like I was one of the lucky few.
Google Operating System, InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs, WebProNews

randfish / SEOmoz Daily SEO Blog - 2 days, 23 hours, 56 minutes ago
Which Social Media Platforms Work Best For Your SEO Efforts? - Posted by randfishThe SEO world, particularly the blogosphere and forum chatter, is overwhelmed with talk of how to leverage social media sites for SEO value.
Search Engine Watch Blog, WebProNews, Search Engine Land

rebecca / SEOmoz Daily SEO Blog - 3 days, 13 hours, 54 minutes ago
Pubcon Recap: Booths, Beginners, and Bashes - Posted by rebeccaPubcon came and went last week in a red-eyed whirlwind (I can never wake up in Las Vegas without emptying a half bottle of Visine in each eye).
Marketing Pilgrim, Search Engine Watch Blog

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Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins / Mashable! - 2 days, 16 hours, 22 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...
MediaPost

Staci D. Kramer / paidContent.org - 1 day, 4 hours, 4 minutes ago
IAC's ServiceMagic Invests In Zip Express Installation, Adding Electronics To Local Offerings - IAC's ServiceMagic.com disclosed today a strategic investment in Minneapolis-based Zip Express Installation, a company that specializes in quick-turnaround installations of consumer or commercial electronics.

Search Engine Watch Blog - 1 day, 23 hours, 48 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...

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Yahoo! News (Wire Services) - 3 days, 20 hours, 43 minutes ago
Spansion sues Samsung over flash memory patents - AP - Spansion Inc. wants to block U.S. sales of iPods, BlackBerry gadgets and other devices because memory chips made by Samsung Electronics Co. and used in those products allegedly violate Spansion patents.
New York Times, TheStreet.com

Ars Technica - 4 days, 1 hour, 45 minutes ago
French court green lights lawsuits against P2P vendors - Limewire, Vuze, Shareaza, and Morpheus can all be sued on French soil, a court has ruled. Recent copyright law changes in France mean that creators and distributors of software "manifestly" designed to swap content illegally can be...
Startup Meme, Portfolio.com: Tech Observer

EETimes - 3 days, 4 hours, 41 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

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