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But Your Honor, There ARRRR No Infringing Materials ARRRchived on ARRR Servers
The cheeky folks at the Pirate Bay may need a peg leg or two when Sweden’s legal sharks are done with them. A Swedish prosecutor filed charges today against the popular BitTorrent tracker’s...
View ArticleGood Job Not Buying Alexa
Compete must have used a fair bit of the $43 million in VC funding it’s raised since 2000 on marketing, because market research outfit Taylor Nelson Sofres is acquiring it–despite the “digital...
View ArticleHulu Is a Good Site for Online Shows, but Fare Is Thin
The major television networks and movie studios, tired of seeing their programming pirated online, have been gradually moving to offer it via legal Web sites and download services. There are two models...
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Tracking Your Money Without Paying a Mint
My Dad will be proud to read that I’ve spent much of the past week studying my finances and figuring out my budget. But I’m willing to bet (figuratively since betting isn’t in my new budget) he’ll be...
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How to Succeed in Start-Ups Without Really Sleeping
[This essay to attendees of the sixth D: All Things Digital conference is from the program book and is written by Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg; D6 starts tomorrow night.] As it turns out, creating a...
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Google's Revenue Slumps, but Cost-Cutting Pays Off
As predicted, Google saw its revenue decline from the last quarter of 2008 to the first three months of this year. The search giant said it generated net revenue of $4.07 billion, which is down from...
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Spare Change for Amazon Shares?
$118.49. That’s the price at which Amazon shares closed Friday, a day after the company reported a 69 percent jump in third-quarter profit and a 28 percent gain in revenue. It was a new 52-week high...
View ArticleZumoDrive Service Is a Silver Lining In 'Cloud' Storage
As people acquire multiple digital devices, including tiny netbooks and super-smart phones, it becomes harder to coordinate all their documents, music and photos so they have access to them from...
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Are Web Ads Only for Oldsters? Yahoo's Disturbing Study.
Brand advertising, the kind you’re used to seeing on TV and in print, isn’t nearly as big on the Internet as the search ads dominated by Google (GOOG). But that’s got to change, as marketers realize...
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Google CEO Eric Schmidt: "I Have a Special Spot for Apple in My Heart"
A first peek at Google’s Q4 earnings report: Revenue in line and a nice earnings bump. The search giant reported revenue of $4.95 billion and earnings of $6.79 per share. The Street was looking for...
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Are You Watching TV While You Read This?
More fuel for the “everybody’s watching TV and the Web at the same time” meme: Data from Nielsen showing that lots of people are watching TV and the Web at the same time, at least during big live...
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Thumbplay's Mobile Music Service Hits the iPhone
Another paid option for mobile music: Thumbplay, which offers an all-you-can-eat subscription service that already works on Research in Motion’s (RIMM) BlackBerry and Google’s (GOOG) Android handsets,...
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French Watchdog Warns Google
Autorite; de la Concurrence, France’s antitrust watchdog, spent the better part of the past year studying competition in the French Internet search advertising market and you’ll never guess who it...
View ArticleEBay's GiftsNearby Taps Into Last-Minute Offline Shopping
EBay has launched an offshoot of its main site called GiftsNearby, which helps holiday shoppers pick up last-minute presents based on local inventory. In particular, a special relationship was formed...
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Skype Is Working, No Explanation Yet for What Happened
After two days of struggling with an embarrassing pre-holiday system failure, Skype appears to be running again today. CEO Tony Bates appeared in a video message overnight announcing that customers...
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Multiple Identities in Action: LinkedIn-Powered Logins Grow on Business Sites
Most of us play various roles in our offline lives–parent, employee, friend, etc.–and now it’s getting easier to express those multiple identities in the online world. (It’s a topic explored often on...
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A Look at Walmart's Plans for Making Commerce High-Tech (Video)
Walmart is typically associated with its everyday low prices, not with technology. But the mega-retailer is trying to change that by building a tech center in San Bruno, Calif., just south of San...
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PayPal's In-Store Payments System Hits Home Depot Stores Across U.S.
Following a test phase in which PayPal allowed its employees to purchase items at a handful of Home Depot stores using a PayPal credit card or account number, the eBay-owned payments giant is rolling...
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Internet-Only Bonobos Gets Cash and Rack Space From Nordstrom
Bonobos, the New York-based online clothing brand, says it has closed $16.4 million in new funding from Nordstrom and that it will start selling its pants at the high-end department store. The...
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With Apple’s Maps Misstep, Other Nav Apps Get Their Turn
We’ve come to expect a lot from our smartphones, and that includes decent maps. Apple’s decision to remove Google Maps from the iPhone 5 and its latest software (iOS 6) in favor of its own fledgling...
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Holiday Spending Online Will Again See Double-Digit Increases
This holiday season’s deal-seeking shoppers in the U.S. are expected to spend $68.4 billion online, representing a 15 percent increase over 2011. iStockphoto.com/mbortolino “E-commerce has been on fire...
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Study: Online Media Pays Off for Consumers More Than Offline
Apparently, you can get media satisfaction — as long as you are online as opposed to offline. According to a new study by the Boston Consulting Group, consumers accrue more value from their online...
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