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Recently, I was confronted with a legal obstacle that—possibly for the first time since we were founded in 1821—prevented The Guardian from reporting something that had happened in Parliament. We wrote a bafflingly cryptic front-page piece and I left the office feeling pretty fed up. But before sitting down to eat, I borrowed the restaurant’ ...
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You can now run Chromium OS, the open source developmental version of Google Chrome OS, on your Dell Mini 10v. Don’t have one? Neither do I, so don’t feel too bad.
Hey, guys. I, John Biggs, will be in Hong Kong and Guangdog next week (November 30-December 5) to visit some folks and would love to meet up with Web 2.0 and gadget purveyors in mother China. If you would like to chat, drop me a line at john @ crunchgear.com and let me know what’s up. I’m thinking about doing an informal meet-up on ...
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NEW YORK (TheStreet -- Black Friday may be in full swing, but online retailers are eagerly anticipating Cyber Monday, hopeful of a major revenue boost as consumers cautiously re-open their wallets.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, just days ahead of his confirmation hearing, is warning Congress that actions limiting the central bank's independence could prove detrimental to the causes of financial reform and economic recovery.
 
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This week, Netronix reportedly hopped on the Android e-reader bandwagon, the Ustream Viewer app appeared in the Android Market, a handheld Mobile Internet Device (MID) based on the ARM platform was unveiled and Google Maps Navigation was made available for Android 1.6.
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Stocks tumbled Friday afternoon as fears about the fallout from Dubai's debt problems rattled Wall Street in a thinly-traded half-day session following Thanksgiving.
 
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Some artists continually seek to tear down boundaries, to find new powder, new territory, new worlds to explore. They're the ones that hop the fence to get to places no one has ever been. Other artists understand that they need to see the edges of the box if they're going to create work that lasts. No fence, no art. Can't do both at the same time.
We all know that Psystar is busy bleeding out in federal court, but that doesn’t mean the fun stops. We’ll be dissecting their glorious failure for quite some time. The most recent development: it seems their plan for taking a bite out of Apple’s sales was comically ambitious. How many clones do you think they sold in 2009? ...
 
Tameka Kee
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China’s Shanda ( NSDQ: SNDA ) is adding online video to its growing digital media empire, through the acquisition of user-gen video site Ku6.com . It’s an all-stock deal; Ku6 will keep its name, becoming a subsidiary of Hurray , the mobile content company Shanda bought out this summer. Full financials were not disclosed, though the ...
Patrick Smith
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Three private equity houses are investing $180 million in web portal Sina ( NSDQ: SINA ), one of China’s biggest online businesses, according to reports from Reuters.com and WSJ , citing sources. Sequoia Capital is joining with Chinese investment groups Fountainvest Partners and CITIC Capital to back a management-led purchase of 5.6 ...
Sebastian Rupley
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Netbooks, low-cost portable computers optimized for web usage, are continuing to sell at a torrid pace. If you're in the market for one, here are eight tips to help you make a good buying decision.
Jeff Jarvis
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Tweet: Rupert has balls. Well, he used to. That’s the essence of Murdoch: balls. It’s the essence of the culture of News Corp., which I learned from working there (at TV Guide): Australian macho seat-of-the-pants instant decision making. That is the secret to Murdoch’s success. It is also the secret to his failure: Sometimes his [
 
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So it's been nearly 10 days since Foursquare launched its social mobile game 'ground assault' into 50 more cities, including a bunch of European ones. But what I'd like to know is who's actually using it here in Europe? Because, you see, Europeans are already quite well served by location based mobile applications like Qype , the various ...
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Tweet: Worthless readers. And what to do about Murdoch et al’s whining about them. One response publishers make to my argument that Google drives value to them and their content in the link economy is that the readers Google sends are worthless. Worthless readers. WIliam Randolph Hearst, Joseph Pulitzer, Joseph Medill, Katherine Graham, and ...
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