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Newspaper companies have been in trouble for some time now, and due to the recession, even some big media corporations are encountering problems. Still, it doesn't look as if either Google or Microsoft is going to leap at the chance to make any acquisitions, as execs recently spoke out against the idea of the tech giants entering these fields. Kevin YenKevin Yen, YouTube's director of strategic partnerships, told Georg Szalai, "Those are very different businesses from what Google is." He then dismissed the idea of adapting, continuing, "We're not good at content. . . . We create platforms that allow other people to succeed."So there's one seemingly closed door. Yen could get overruled by Eric Schmidt or a few other people, of course, but there's no reason to believe a strategic partnerships boss would be out of the loop on this issue.As for Microsoft's take, Steve Ballmer himself shot down the possibility of buyouts there. Asked

The blogosphere as well as mainstream media has been abuzz with discussions about the IBM buyout of Sun. Enthusiastic TV anchors of not just business channels but even general news channels have been delivering extended theories on the matter. However one thing that is common across all discussions has been the fact that most people [...]

Buzznet, which operates the web's largest community of pop culture web sites with an audience of 40 million unique monthly users, has changed its name to Buzz Media. The newly-named company will focus on the continued growth of its socially programmed web sites, including Celebuzz, Buzznet, the Superficial, SocialiteLife, What Would Tyler Durden Do, Stereogum, Idolator, Just Jared and Absolute Punk.Buzz Media announced that it has secured a new round of financing totaling $12.5 million. Focus Ventures joined the latest round. Existing investors, including Anthem Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, Redpoint Ventures and Sutter Hill Ventures, also participated in the round.Buzz Media will use the funds for the continued growth of its portfolio of leading pop culture properties. More than 40 million people worldwide visit Buzz Media properties every month. The company's pop culture focused portfolio includes leading online music and celebrity destinations.Possibly Related PostsGiga Om

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The licence fee, Madagascan politics and Walford election fever, in our weekly round-up of the political blogs Blogger shall speak peace unto blogger In an interview with the Times a few years ago, Jonathan Dimbleby took something of a risk by saying of

Security experts from PC Tools have pinpointed November 24 as potentially the peak of malicious activity for 2008. They reached their conclusion on the specific date after analyzing well over 500,000 machines from around the world.Guardian.co.uk states that 'the number of people shopping online this Christmas is expected to grow again this year, with internet sales in the UK alone predicted to hit £13.16bn - an increase of 15% over 2007.'It should be noted that November 28 will be the busiest shopping day of the year, a day so popular in fact that it even has its own name, 'Black Friday'.So logically thinking? the increase of malicious attacks, spam, spyware, and everything else evil should be expected to climb just mere days before people start entering in their private data for online purchases.Spam and all the other wrongdoing of others shouldn't sway anyone from shopping online, as this stuff is going on everyday. Just remember to use your common sense? if something sounds fi

The economy's nasty condition is making people rethink all sorts of things: whether trucks and SUVs are cooler than clown cars, whether steak is that much better than ramen, and so on. Google wants to help when it comes time to decide whether to embrace its security offerings.Google Unveils Calculators To Promote Security Products To see how much security measures of some sort can help a business, Google's introduced a simple Return on Investment Calculator. Users can see an estimate of how much time/money's wasted on spam by entering stats relating to employees, workdays, salaries, and spam messages. Expect big numbers if you start typing away.But as for the matter of choosing Google's products instead of something else, there's an entirely separate tool. The Total Cost of Ownership Calculator compares the expense of on-premise solutions to Google Message Security over the course of three years.Here, you can probably expect to see some stark differences, too. On the Officia

With social media tools we have the ability to instantly become a citizen of the world. We probably have more interactions in a single day than many people from our grandparents times met in their whole life. This has both advantages and negatives, and navigating these will have a profound impact on your happiness and your success. Fact is some people make you feel better, lift you up, inform and entertain, while others seem to be on a mission to depress, annoy, enrage. Sorting the edifying from the toxic is a habit to get into early and often!Build a Positive NetworkRead and follow people who inspire or motivate youSurround yourself with positive influences rather than people who bring you downDo not get drawn into protracted debates or argumentsBlock people who routinely aggravate youAvoid scenarios where you get drawn into negativitySeek out people who are succeeding at what you want to do and observe how they behave and thinkFind the learning opportunity in every interact

I'm not the right person to judge the new Facebook design because I find the social network utterly boring, and the only reason I even reactivated my account was to get in touch with people addicted to the service. I will say that the previous design was cluttered, while this one is nicer on the eye. That is, however, not the most important thing when it comes to app-like services and sites like Facebook, and a lot of users dislike the new design.A new Facebook application, called New Layout Vote, lets you vote on the new design. These are disheartening numbers for Zuckerberg & Co., because as of now, some 900,911 users have voted and the score is a whopping 94% against the new design. As in don't like it. The app will break 1 million in a few hours time, if the increase in votes right now is anything to go by.More on Techmeme, of course.So what do you think about the (fairly) new Facebook design?Possibly Related PostsFacebook Turns 5, Still HugeExploring Social Media: Promoting Yo

Though the initial, pressing Twitter question a while back wasn’t “what are you doing?” but “what’s the point?” people are finding lots of uses for it. In this installment of the ongoing what-Twitter-is-good-for news brigade, we’ll focus on how people are tweeting their way out of some things and into others. Ready? Good. How to Tweet Your Way Out of Jury Duty Just as a federal judge in Florida had to declare a high profile drug case a mistrial because the jurors were using their smart phones to do research about the defendant, court officials across the country are discovering jurors are tweeting from the courthouse, discussing the case they’re hearing and giving updates. One Philadelphia juror went all citizen journalist by telling his Facebook friends to stay tuned for a big announcement on Monday. In another case, a lawsuit, one juror tweeted about giving away $12 million of somebody else's money.So, no need to pretend to be