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Who Made NBC Cave? SNL Video Clip Vanishes From NBC.Com, Hulu
Peter Kafka via Silicon Alley Insider on Tue, 07 Oct. 2008
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Amazon's Kindle Starting To Pass The Subway Test? (AMZN)
Dan Frommer via Silicon Alley Insider on Tue, 07 Oct. 2008
It's not just us: Real people are seeing real Amazon (AMZN) Kindle e-readers on readmore
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Fred Wilson: What To Look For Next
Fred Wilson via Silicon Alley Insider on Tue, 07 Oct. 2008
The Treasury, the Fed, and Warren Buffet have been the only buyers in this meltdown and have been largely focused on financial companies. Meanwhile the rest of readmore
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McCain Plummets With Stocks
Henry Blodget via Silicon Alley Insider on Mon, 06 Oct. 2008
John McCain unleashed a fusillade of attacks on Barack Obama today (mysterious background, shady Palestinian donors, etc), trying to change the subject from the economy. Taking a page out of Karl Rove's playbook, Obama's campaign responded by saying that John McCain was "angry" and "frustrated." readmore
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Are Half Of Pandora's Listeners On The iPhone? No
Dan Frommer via Silicon Alley Insider on Mon, 06 Oct. 2008
Streaming music service Pandora loves Apple's (AAPL) iPhone, but a report that "over readmore
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MySpace Hires Away Another Yahoo Exec (NWS, YHOO)
Vasanth Sridharan via Silicon Alley Insider on Mon, 06 Oct. 2008
The Yahoo exodus continues. Valeh Vakili, director of U.S. sales operations for Yahoo, is leaving the company to join News Corp.'s MySpace, as SVP of sales and strategy and operations, readmore
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Enterprise Software Giant SAP: "Sudden And Unexpected Drop In Business" At End Of Quarter (SAP)
Dan Frommer via Silicon Alley Insider on Mon, 06 Oct. 2008
While the stock market is getting killed but German enterprise software giant SAP (SAP) is getting blown away: Shares are down 14% today to $39.22 after the company readmore
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Video Platform Magnify.Net: SAI Gave Us A Heart Attack. But We're Not Dead
Peter Kafka via Silicon Alley Insider on Mon, 06 Oct. 2008
Earlier today we published a list of 50+ projects that AOL has killed or is planning to kill. Some o readmore
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Yahoo About To Overpay For AOL (TWX)?
Henry Blodget via Silicon Alley Insider on Mon, 06 Oct. 2008
Yahoo and AOL could announce their merger deal this week, TechCrunch sa readmore
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Apple Stock Falls Under $90 (AAPL)
Henry Blodget via Silicon Alley Insider on Mon, 06 Oct. 2008
As of 12:55PM ET, Apple (AAPL) is down 8% and trading around $89, more than 50% off its high. The stock's trailing P/E ratio is now 17X--still above the market's, but low for a stock with this readmore
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Apple's iPhone Top-Selling U.S. Consumer Smartphone This Summer, Verizon The Big Loser
Dan Frommer via Silicon Alley Insider on Mon, 06 Oct. 2008
Not surprising: Apple's (AAPL) new, cheaper iPhone 3G was the top-selling consumer smartphone in the U.S. this summer, beating out two RIM (RIMM) BlackBerry gadgets and Palm's (PAL readmore
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Tech Blog Network GigaOmniMedia Raises $4.5 Million
Eric Krangel via Silicon Alley Insider on Mon, 06 Oct. 2008
Seems not every blog network is undergoing the "disaster planning" going on at Gawker Media, which readmore
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One Company Not Doing Terribly In The Downturn: Cheap Wireless Carrier MetroPCS (PCS)
Dan Frommer via Silicon Alley Insider on Mon, 06 Oct. 2008
One company that's doing well despite the crappy economy: MetroPCS, which sells all-you-can-eat cellphone service in LA and other markets for as low as $30 a month. The carrier readmore
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Angel Investor Roger Ehrenberg: Want My Money? Here's My Criteria
Roger Ehrenberg via Silicon Alley Insider on Mon, 06 Oct. 2008
Much has been written recently about VC and start-up ang readmore
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AOL's Hit List: 50+ Projects Gone Or Going (TWX)
Peter Kafka via Silicon Alley Insider on Mon, 06 Oct. 2008
Last week, AOL told users of its Hometown and Journals services that they would shut down within a month. T readmore
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Intelligent Life At NBC! SNL Clips On YouTube And Not Shafting Hulu
Henry Blodget via Silicon Alley Insider on Mon, 06 Oct. 2008
We were looking for that SNL "CSPAN" clip in which the billionaire husband and wife who sold Wachovia the "pick-a-pay" mortgage lending disaster Golden West were described as "people who should be shot." (below) So, naturally, we started at YouTube. And of course we found the clip immediately. And, lo and behold, we also found that it had been uploaded by NBC (we assume) and was really j readmore
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Why We Published That Steve Jobs Heart Attack Report
Henry Blodget via Silicon Alley Insider on Sat, 04 Oct. 2008
Around 9:15AM yesterday, we learned that the lead story on CNN's citizen-journalism site iReport said that Steve Jobs had been rushed to the hospital after a heart attack. By the time we found it, the readmore
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What's Really At Risk At A Federal Obscenity Trial? About Four Years In Prison
Eric Krangel via Silicon Alley Insider on Sat, 04 Oct. 2008
We know that if you publish pornographic material on the Internet, federal prosecutors can choose to bring trial against you almost anywhere in the nation. And if Paul F. Little's (a/k/a "Max Hard readmore
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Dead Search Engine Accoona Officially Dead
Eric Krangel via Silicon Alley Insider on Fri, 03 Oct. 2008
Don't say we didn't tell you so. Accoona, the search engine no one had ever heard of, is gone. readmore
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CONFIRMED: Microsoft Freezes Hiring At Xbox And Zune Group (MSFT)
Vasanth Sridharan via Silicon Alley Insider on Fri, 03 Oct. 2008
UPDATE: We've confirmed that Robbie Bach, who heads up Entertainment and Devices (Xbox, Zune, etc), sent out an email last night announcing a freeze at his group. readmore
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