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Stan Schroeder / Mashable! - 12 hours, 52 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...
MediaPost, broadstuff

Bilal Hameed / Startup Meme - 1 day, 9 hours, 18 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, Network World

Steve Gelsi / FOXBusiness.com - 1 day, 9 hours, 23 minutes ago
Energy Stocks Resume Their Slide - Energy Stocks Resume Their Slide
MarketWatch, CNNMoney.com

Wallace Witkowski / FOXBusiness.com - 1 day, 4 hours, 20 minutes ago
Associated Press To Cut 10% Of Jobs In 2009: Report - Associated Press To Cut 10% Of Jobs In 2009: Report
San Jose Mercury News

Seattle Times - 3 hours, 50 minutes ago
Fed officials weigh in on economy's weakness - The U.S. economy's weakness will stretch well into next year, a Federal Reserve official warned Friday.

Matt Burns / CrunchGear - 1 day, 10 hours, 11 minutes ago
Are you using Gmail themes? - Google launched Gmail themes yesterday and, wow, are they hot. It’s nice to give the Web 2.0 email standard a makeover from the standard skin, but are you using them yet? Did you even know that the option was there under settings?...
RyanSpoon.com

Matt Burns / CrunchGear - 1 day, 11 hours, 33 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...

In-Depth
Tech Blog - 1 day, 7 hours, 2 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.



Ars Technica - 6 hours, 17 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......

Electronista - 3 days, 5 hours, 57 minutes ago
NVIDIA bows Tesla Personal Supercomputer - NVIDIA on Tuesday announced the availability of its GPU-based Tesla architecture Personal Supercomputer, which, the company promises, has as much as 250 times the computing performance of a PC thanks to NVIDIA CUDA parallel computing...
InfoWorld, eWeek, VentureBeat, Ars Technica, GigaOM, SiliconValley.com, InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs

Silicon Alley Insider - 4 hours, 29 minutes ago
TechCrunch Ad Rates Slashed 35% - The recession has slammed into tech advertising, apparently, even at hot sites like TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb, and GigaOm.

Nilay Patel / Engadget - 7 days, 1 hour 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, ChannelWeb

NYT > Media & Advertising - 8 days, 16 hours, 55 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, CNET News.com, Yahoo! News (Wire Services), Search Engine Watch Blog

Justin Smith / Inside Facebook - 8 days, 14 hours, 24 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, 3 hours, 35 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

Douglas McIntyre / BloggingStocks - 14 days, 14 hours, 1 minute 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, 17 hours, 17 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 - 11 days, 2 hours, 23 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

Anthony Ha / VentureBeat - 2 days, 2 hours, 31 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, WebProNews

randfish / SEOmoz Daily SEO Blog - 3 days, 3 hours, 6 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

Andy Beal / Marketing Pilgrim - 3 days, 18 hours, 1 minute ago
PubCon 2008 in Pictures - Here are just a few of my favorite photos taken at PubCon 2008. You can view them all here.Pilgrim’s Partners: Is a blogger attacking your company without you knowing? Monitor your online reputation with Andy Beal’s...
Search Engine Watch Blog

Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins / Mashable! - 2 days, 19 hours, 33 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, 7 hours, 14 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 - 2 days, 2 hours, 58 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...

Yahoo! News (Wire Services) - 3 days, 23 hours, 54 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, 4 hours, 56 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, 7 hours, 52 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