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Tuesday, March 11, 2008 Daily News Tracker
Google receives European Union approval of DoubleClick merger, new search engine Searchme enters private Beta test, while another - Topicle - launches, and more.


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Google-DoubleClick Officially Gets Nod From EC; No Conditions; Competition ‘Credible’

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-EU-Google-DoubleClick.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/companyNews/idUSBFA00058020080311
http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/08/426&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120524277833327159.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/03/11/business/11googlefw.php
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080311/ap_on_hi_te/eu_google_doubleclick
http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-google-doubleclick-officially-gets-nod-from-ec/
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/newstex/AFX-0013-23682695.htm
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=agecYRtTFn0Y

Searchme: A New Visual Search Engine Private Beta Launches Today / $25 million investment from Google/Yahoo backers Sequoia Capital, others

http://kara.allthingsd.com/20080311/searchme-a-new-visual-search-engine/
http://www.searchme.com/press/releases/Searchme_Launches_Private_Beta_of_New_Visual_Search_Engine.php
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/11/searchme-launches-new-search-engine-with-heavy-backing-from-sequoia/

Ex-Googler Launches Search Engine Community, Topicle

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/ex-googler_launches_search_engine_community.php
http://www.topicle.com/about.php

Google: To Be 'Very Significant' In Display Ads By '08-'09

http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djf500/200803101533DOWJONESDJONLINE000602_FORTUNE5.htm

Malone Speaks of Diller as Court Battle Starts / Ask.com Parent Company IAC Trial News

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/11/business/media/11moguls.html
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120517182942824699.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSN1045821620080311
http://www.denverpost.com/ci_8526246

Rupert Murdoch dashes Yahoo hopes / Plays Down News Corp's Interest

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/1953df32-eee1-11dc-97ec-0000779fd2ac.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSWEN440320080310
http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20080310/yahoo-newscorp/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/mar/11/rupertmurdoch.yahoo

Google on data security: You can trust us, really / How Google Keeps Your Information Secure

http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9890847-7.html
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/03/how-google-keeps-your-information.html

Google's drop in paid clicks: Part of the grand plan

http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9890828-7.html
http://blogs.ft.com/techblog/2008/03/google-hints-at-economic-vulnerability/

Google red cards Privila for gaming search engine

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/11/google_privila/

Google Announces 2008 Developer Events

http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/20080311_io_event.html

Microsoft Health vs.Google Health

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/10/AR2008031001532.html

Yahoo! Research Opens Israel Lab; Search Expert Dr. Ronny Lempel Joins Yahoo! to Lead Research Efforts in Haifa

http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=298528

WEB / OTHER

New domain names hit 153 million in 2007

http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2211607/internet-grows-33m-domain-names
http://www.verisign.com/static/043379.pdf (.PDF file)

Testing Over, NBC Universal-Fox venture Hulu.com to Open Its Free Ad-Supported TV and Film Offerings This Week

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/11/business/media/11hulu.html
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a01e01c6-eef7-11dc-97ec-0000779fd2ac.html
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120519822483125987.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSN1051414220080311
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/10/its-official-hulu-opens-up-on-wednesday/
http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-hulucom-launches-wednesday-new-deals-with-wb-lionsgate-nba-nhl-ncaa-net/
http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/006621.html
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/television/news/e3ib8b5060e33b9624e685dfd0c5224229e

WordPress 2.5 Upgrade To Be Released

http://www.movabletype.com/blog/2008/03/a-wordpress-25-upgrade-guide.html

Study Finds Bigger Computer Monitors = More Productivity

http://blogs.wsj.com/biztech/2008/03/10/bigger-computer-monitors-more-productivity/

Interview: Ray Ozzie, Chief Software Architect, Microsoft Corp.

http://gigaom.com/2008/03/10/the-gigaom-interview-ray-ozzie-microsoft-corp/

EU Probes U.S. Web Gambling Ban

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120516680656524507.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSBRS00027820080310
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2008-03-10-eu-gambling-laws_N.htm

Zoho People Launches for Free. Does Salesforce.com Have Anything to Worry About?

http://www.reuters.com/article/blogBurst/technology?type=technologyNews&w1=B7ovpm21IaDoL40ZFnNfGe&w2=B82x9Ksc5UNVzDjpITcIrRbi&src=blogBurst_technologyNews&bbPostId=Cz28m6hltnbtBCzBMqbu8JE3r8B5blJUNdtxAJCzCn6eql6962B&bbParentWidgetId=B82x9Ksc5UNVzDjpITcIrRbi

Internet TV subscriptions doubled in 2007: Informa

http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSL1146359320080311

Motorola continues to lose signal / May End 2008 As #4 Cell Phone Maker

http://money.cnn.com/2008/03/10/technology/moritz_motorola.fortune/index.htm

Wireless spectrum auction winding down with $20 billion in bids

http://techland.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/03/10/wireless-spectrum-auction-winding-down/

CEO Robert Iger: Disney will reap $1 billion online this year

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/techinvestor/earnings/2008-03-11-disney-online-revenue_N.htm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080311/ap_on_hi_te/disney_online

LibSyn Issues Updates to Podcast Stats Engine

http://mashable.com/2008/03/10/libsyn-stats-upgrade/

Association for Downloadable Media Creates Ad Council

http://mashable.com/2008/03/10/adm-ad-council/

Pitcairn Island relays most spam per person / Global Spam Trends Data From Net Security Firm Sophos

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/11/global_spam_trends/
(related - Google spam) http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/03/11/Spam-from-Gmail-doubled-last-month_1.html
(related - email inventor Ray Tomlinson didn't foresee spam 37 years ago) http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article3525110.ece

Sun and Microsoft widen alliance

http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2211685/sun-cosies-microsoft

Mozilla Labs Updates Prism Prototype / Web-to-desktop Application

http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=PG5JDBNZ4ALSCQSNDLRSKHSCJUNN2JVN?articleID=206902854
http://labs.mozilla.com/2008/03/major-update-to-prism-first-prototype-of-browser-integration/

Tokiva Does Wireless Variation On VoIP Theme

http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=PG5JDBNZ4ALSCQSNDLRSKHSCJUNN2JVN?articleID=206902870

MyVox Lets You Add Voice Notes to Google Maps, RockYou Widgets And More / Use Phone As Microphone

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/11/myvox-lets-you-add-voice-notes-to-google-maps-flickr-slide-shows-rockyou-widgets-and-more/
http://www2.myvox.com/developers/

Facebook CEO Zuckerberg Admits Mistakes

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/10/facebook-ceo-zuckerberg-a_n_90791.html
(related) http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/mark_zuckerberg_on_data_portab.php

CBSSports.com Opens March Madness On Demand Video For Easy Access From Any Site

http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-cbssportscom-opens-march-madness-on-demand-for-access-from-any-site/

P2P Music Service Grooveshark : Analytics Suite For Music Artists and Labels Will Launch Soon

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/grooveshark_analytics_suite.php

Qualcomm buys mobile ad targeting company, Irish software developer Xiam Technologies

http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20080311/tc_infoworld/95893

 


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