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Amazon Friday, October 16, 2009Report: Digg acquires Kevin Rose's WeFollowMashable and TechCrunch report that Digg has acquired Kevin Rose's side project, WeFollow.
CNET Friday, October 16, 2009Facebook sees ad potential bigger than Google search adsPALO ALTO, California (Reuters) - Facebook's chief operating officer said the
social networking
company was targeting a bigger ad market than the search ad market that has made Google Inc rich.
Reuters Friday, October 16, 2009Digital publishing: Making its bookmarkGoogle wants to shake up the digital book marketIT WAS a fitting place to announce an experiment in bookselling. At the Frankfurt book fair on Thursday October 15th, Tom Turvey of Google revealed plans for a new online
service that will allow users to download electronic copies of books from the search giant or from publishers using its
technology.
called Google Editions, the service will
launch in the first half of next year and will trigger a head-to-head battle between Google and another web behemoth, Amazon, the current
leader in the digital book arena.That arena is still tiny. The Association of
american Publishers, an
industry group, reckons that total book sales in America last year reached $24.3 billion, but e-books accounted for just $113m of that amount. Nevertheless those sales were 68% higher than the previous year and demand for digital texts is
expected to rise steeply in coming years. The appetite for e-versions of books is being driven in part by a rapid expansion of th
Economist Friday, October 16, 2009WITNESS: Pardon my bootleg: Navigating China's pirated watersSHANGHAI (Reuters) - I confess, my copy of Windows 7 Ultimate, the latest version of Microsoft's Windows franchise, was just that: a copy.
Reuters Friday, October 16, 2009Second Life Solving Real-World Healthcare ProblemsChicago's Children's Memorial Hospital uses the virtual world for disaster preparedness training, while disabled people turn to it for peer support.
Information Week Friday, October 16, 2009Tandberg shareholders call for higher price from Cisco(Telecompaper) Tandberg shareholders with more than 24 percent of
the company's stock want Cisco Systems to raise its NOK 17.2 billion offer for the videoconferencing equipment marker. SEB Enskilda's unit in Norway canvassed shareholders and found that 21 owners won't sell "at the current offer terms," according to a statement from the bank,
reported by several news wires. SEB is acting on behalf of clients who are shareholders in Tandberg. Cisco agreed earlier to pay NOK 153.50 per share for Tandberg, in a deal supported by the
company's management and requiring approval from 90 percent of shareholders. The bid
offers a premium of 11 percent on the share price the day before the deal was
announced and a 38 percent on mid-July when talk of a bid first emerged.
DMeurope.com Friday, October 16, 2009Etisalat to acquire Millicom's Sri Lankan operation(Telecompaper) Global mobile operator Millicom
international Cellular has agreed to sell Tigo Sri Lanka to UAE-based operator Etisalat for USD 155 million in cash. The transaction values the Sri Lanka operation at an enterprise value of USD 207 million. The transaction is not subject to any conditions and is
expected to close on or before 20 October. This contract represents the final element of Millicom's recent divestment programme and, upon completion of the previously
announced transactions concerning the Cambodian and Laotian operations, will leave the group well positioned to focus on the long-term growth opportunities in Latin America and Africa.
DMeurope.com Friday, October 16, 2009Google grows Q3 revenues 7%(Telecompaper) Google
reported third-quarter revenues of USD 5.94 billion, up 7 percent from a year earlier. Google said it appears the worst of the
economic slowdown is past, and
the company is
looking ahead with confidence in investment. Traffic acquisition costs, included in its revenues figures, totaled USD 1.56 billion in Q3, or 27 percent of advertising revenues. Google's own sites generated 67 percent of revenues in the quarter, while
partner sites contributed 30 percent. Revenues in its home market the US accounted for 53 percent of the total, while the UK was at 13 percent and the remainder came from the rest of the world. Operating profit improved to USD 2.07 billion from USD 1.65 billion a year ago, with the margin rising to 35 percent from 30. Net profit rose to USD 1.64 billion or USD 5.13 per share, from USD 1.29 billion or USD 4.06 per share in the year-earlier period. Google generated net cash flow of USD 2.73 billion in the quarter, and capex reached USD 186 million. A
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