Friday, November 21, 2008 - 12:23 pm EST
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Bilal Hameed / Startup Meme - 1 day, 2 hours, 39 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 - 20 hours, 13 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, 2 hours, 44 minutes ago
Energy Stocks Resume Their Slide - Energy Stocks Resume Their Slide
MarketWatch, CNNMoney.com

Matt Burns / CrunchGear - 1 day, 4 hours, 54 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...

Seattle Times - 5 hours, 43 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! - 6 hours, 13 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 - 6 hours, 29 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...

Tapan Bhat / Yodel Anecdotal - 17 hours, 23 minutes ago
eBay joins our homepage test - As many of you know, we’ve been testing a new Yahoo.com homepage since September. We chose a random fraction from our millions of users in four countries to play around with the new homepage and give us feedback on the new features.

Seattle Times - 17 hours, 26 minutes ago
Starbucks executive Gass joins Ann Taylor board - Ann Taylor Stores elected Starbucks executive Michelle Gass to its board of directors, where she will sit on its compensation committee...

MediaPost - 18 hours, 49 minutes ago
Social Media Insider: Making Sense Of Social Media - When your 80-year-old mother forwards a video to you each day and your mother-in-law writes a blog, you can't help but pay attention to the growth, acceptance and utility of social media.

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Nilay Patel / Engadget - 6 days, 18 hours, 21 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, Macworld UK News, Computerworld, EETimes, TheStreet.com: Business Wire, TheStreet.com, Network World, VentureBeat, Between the Lines, ZDNet Blogs, ChannelWeb

InfoWorld - 3 days 35 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, Ars Technica, GigaOM, InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs

Dan Gallagher / FOXBusiness.com - 2 hours, 49 minutes ago
Dell Leads Tech Stocks Up In Early Trading - Dell Leads Tech Stocks Up In Early Trading

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NYT > Media & Advertising - 8 days, 10 hours, 16 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.
CNET News.com, Yahoo! News (Wire Services), Search Engine Watch Blog

Justin Smith / Inside Facebook - 8 days, 7 hours, 46 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,...
WebProNews, paidContent.org

Jordan McCollum / Marketing Pilgrim - 8 days, 18 hours, 40 minutes ago
YouTube on a Roll: Sponsored Videos - YouTube is premiering more than full length movie deals this week: the most popular video site on the web has also announced a new advertising program in Sponsored Videos.
Search Engine Journal

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Rafat Ali / paidContent.org - 9 days, 10 hours, 38 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, 19 hours, 45 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 - 7 days, 10 hours, 21 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.

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Anthony Ha / VentureBeat - 1 day, 19 hours, 52 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, 20 hours, 28 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, 10 hours, 26 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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Jennifer Leggio / ZDNet Blogs - 53 minutes ago
Pop-up ads on LinkedIn? How very MySpace - I'm wondering if LinkedIn is trying to become the "rich man's MySpace"

Silicon Alley Insider - 1 hour, 23 minutes ago
LIVE: BlackBerry Storm Twitter - Hundreds -- thousands? -- of people across the country are trying to buy new BlackBerry Storm gadgets at Verizon Wireless stores today, and many of them are talking about it on Twitter. In fact, it seems some places are already sold out of...

Jennifer Leggio / ZDNet Blogs - 1 day, 23 hours, 27 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."
MediaPost

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Yahoo! News (Wire Services) - 3 days, 17 hours, 15 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 - 3 days, 22 hours, 17 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

Silicon Alley Insider - 7 days, 4 hours, 44 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, Ars Technica

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