New Media + IT

Just saw that The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Microsoft might be very interesting in investing in social startup Facebook.
Facebook has — according to the WSJ — 40 million users, and Microsoft (and apparently also Google) is now trying to grab a piece of the action.
Microsoft's approach to Facebook in recent weeks with proposals [...]

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[ categorized as: Businesses, Microsoft, Social web ]

According to The Wallstreet Journal more companies are spending more money in the field of "Web 2.0" (we SO need to come up with another term for that) — mostly social networking or blogging.
Also the investments in Web 2.0 companies has started to move outside the San Francisco Bay Arena which is "known for producing [...]

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[ categorized as: Businesses, Web, Web 2.0 ]

I have previously written about Yahoo acquisitions in 2005 and 2006, and now Yahoo has been out buying again.
This time it's MyBlogLog a service aiming to connect like-minded bloggers in communities. You just add your blog by typing in the URL/URI. Apparently MyBlogLog also has a built in statistics module, that requires you to add [...]

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[ categorized as: Businesses, Communities ]

CyberNet News has an article on Yahoo Acquisitions Over the Last Two Years.
The article sums up two years of interesting Yahoo acquisitions, seven in 2005 and three in 2006.
I can honestly say that there are some acquisitions in there, that I haven't heard anything about.

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[ categorized as: Businesses ]

Apparently the European Union has just announced a "European Charter for Film Online endorsed by major industry players".
This sounds quite interesting.
In the press announcement it says:
This Charter – the first of its kind in the world – identifies the preconditions for enabling content and infrastructure providers to make film online services a commercial success. The [...]

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[ categorized as: Businesses, Entertainment ]

The Economist has an article about America Online (AOL), where the various problems and difficulties with the firm, the brand, the shares and the customers are discussed.
The article argues, that Time Warner, who owns AOL, might be considering to break off the AOL-branch of the business.
Read the article, it's interesting, and very important, stuff!

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[ categorized as: Businesses ]