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Venture Capital Needs Fresh Insight In Rough Times

The National Venture Capital Association is looking at the hard, economic landscape and has distributed some recommendations to help wade us through. The proposals, entitled "Four Pillar Plan...

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Oracle Buys Sun Microsystems

Oracle, owner of the database by the same name, buys Sun Microsystems, owner of the very popular free license database MySQL. Oracle paid 7.4 billion for Sun in a bid that surprised the industry....

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Leaving Orkut Behind, Google Makes Successful Tools Into Social Experiences

Google's social network Orkut has never been popular outside of Brazil. Yet, instead of trying its hands again at another social website, Google has decided to make its regular tools become social...

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Time Warner Concedes To Public Outrage On Tiered Billing

Time Warner recently offered a concession to strong public outrage regarding a proposed tiered billing policy. The tiered billing policy that Time Warner wanted to push through was to charge users...

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Tech, IT and Internet Jobs Lost

By the end of March, Toshiba lost 350 billion yen--resulting in 3900 job cuts by April. Many in the tech and internet industry are in the same boat. IBM has cut 5000 jobs, and Nortel has slashed 3200...

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Stumbleupon buys back their company from eBay

The founders of StumbleUpon teamed up with a group of investors to buy back the company from eBay's ownership. This move may help the social network regain some of its lost popularity.

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Virgin Announes Flat 49.99 Mobile Plan, Shares Rise 17%

With the current rise in unemployed and a growing economic terror, companies are trying to find new ways to stay afloat or in a few cases thrive. Virgin Mobile just announced a flat 49.99 mobile rate...

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Unpopular Anti-Piracy Law To Boot Offenders From Internet

A new French law (‘HADOPI’ "Creation and Internet" law) that requires ISPs to not serve users who have pirated content. The law is very unpopular with anyone outside of the government and...

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Office Wars: The Software Battlefield

Microsoft is the world's top "office" software maker, and it's Office product is the bread and butter for Microsoft for some time. With free, online competitors now directly competing for business in...

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Microsoft To Release Ad Supported Office Suite

Competing with free online office software is no friendly challenge for Microsoft. Their long time bread and butter, Microsoft Office, has been assaulted by new competitors such as Google's free...

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