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Online Music Giants To Pay Up To $100M In Royalties

New York federal judge William Conner established, in a recent ruling, a loose formula that determines the royalties Yahoo Inc., AOL and RealNetworks will have to pay to music composers, writers and publishers, and it might add up to 100 million doll...

eBay vs. Craigslist, Round One: eBay's Version

After last week's news of eBay suing Craigslist, a company in whose ownership it has an important stake, eBay has decided to let the world know why exactly they're suing, and published a copy of its complaint. This is eBay's version of the story, so ...

Google Now Lets You Place Ads On TV

Google AdWords has just made a major announcement: they are launching Google TV Ads, an all-digital system that lets you place your ads into TV program. The service has been available as a trial program for over a year now, and now Google has opened ...

iTunes Movie Downloads Now To Follow DVD Release Schedule

For a good amount of time prior to the debut of iTunes Movie Rentals, a service first announced at this year’s Macworld Expo, Apple optioned purchase-to-own digital film downloads. But in its earliest stage, the store’s movie annex retained mostly da...

Streamzy: A New Window Into Music Search [The Startup Review]

Editor’s Note: If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion in “The Startup Review” series, please see the details here. STARTUP DETAILS: Company Name: Streamzy 20-word Description: Streamzy is a media search engine (just music for...

Financial Q&A; Service TickerHound Launches

There are lots of places to learn the ropes of finance and the world markets. Yahoo Finance is often said to be the most trafficked of all Web-based destinations. Then there’s The Motley Fool. The Street is another. CNBC and Fox Business deliver visu...

Oodle Names Microsoft Ex as New Senior VP

Online classifieds service Oodle has named Kevin Doerr its new senior vice president, to lead the company's partner network and grow advertising revenue all the same. A Microsoft veteran, Doerr worked in Microsoft's Premium Mobile Services group, Win...

Digsby First to Support Facebook Chat

New(ish) chat tool Digsby is probably amongst the most curious of the recent entrants to the market, because of its all inclusive approach to communication--not just chat. It supports all the major chat services, and also pulls in your email messages...

When Did Facebook Get More Spammy than MySpace?

When Facebook opened up its platform last year, a lot of developers were happy, the media hailed it as one of the smartest moves in social media, and the backlash from users was minimal, at least when compared to the onslaught of nasty comments Faceb...

Bizak: What's Your Web 2.0 Startup Worth?

Bizak is a new analytics tool that's hoping to bring in some practical features to its approach towards startups. With bizak, you can calculate how well your business will do based on its existing status, along with the comps of other businesses in t...

Go Green on May 12 for SF Green

SF Green is a networking event that brings together the Bay Area GreenTech community to see demos from the hottest green companies, including Tesla Motors and SmartCar - who will be bringing prototypes to display! Get 15% off by registering with at t...

Forbes Loves Itself with Lingospot

There are a number of resource sites that are better taking advantage of the instant-gratification tools for the acquisition of knowledge that the web presents us, and Forbes is the latest to enhance its online content for this purpose. Now, all of F...

Rumor: TalkShoe Seeking $5 Million

TalkShoe may be seeking some venture capital, according to a source MG Seigler found over at VentureBeat today. According to the source, they're looking for about $5 million from Third Security in VC. As MG mentioned, this is looking to be a cap off ...

Current.com Shows Us a Day in the Life of Pete Cashmore

Current.com, the cable channel and embedded video site that allows the viewers to pick the news pieces, recently did a short documentary showing a day in the life of our fearless leader, Pete Cashmore. I just got an update from the folks over at Curr...

Blogger.com (Finally) Finishes Future Posting

Paul talked about it back in February, but it's finally here. The feature that users of Moveable Type and WordPress have been enjoying for a quite a while now, future posting, is now available to all users on Blogger's platform for standalone sites a...

Blinkx Celebrates International Star Wars Day

Blinkx, the popular video search site we've covered several times before has decided to embrace their inner Star Wars geek with a special page dedicated to the film series. May 4th, 2008 has been declared "International Star Wars Day" (Fourth... Forc...

iGliss Takes The Work Out Of Media Sharing

Ever felt like there were too many steps to sharing your media online with your friends? Wished you could share all your favorite items such as videos, pictures, blog posts and more in one convenient place? Then iGliss may be just what you've been lo...

Digg Goes With DataPortability

According to the Digg blog, it looks like Digg has decided to join with the DataPortability camp. Enhancements that have been put in to place, but are invisible to the naked eye include the XFN open standard which will make it easier for other sites ...

Epic Fail? Take Two. Dorble Rises from Gimado's Ashes.

If you head to a new site called Dorble, you may notice its resemblance to another site, Gimado, that launched a couple of months ago. That's because it's created by the same person that gave us Gimado. There's a long and winded story behind the reas...

BinTube: The Best Thing Since Napster?

Remember USENET? I do. It was one of my first forays into the Internet. According to Google's archive my first post (at least my first post under my own name, as opposed to my middle school and high school teacher's account) was back in 1995. It was ...

Will Aggregation Ever Go Mainstream?

Louis Gray has an interesting post on what makes FriendFeed so addictive for those of us in the early adopter set. There are quite a few folks that are trying to make a go of it in the lifestreaming and aggregation set. As Louis said: Plaxo did it. P...

Head to Head: Document Sharing Sites

From CMS to online word processors, there is no dearth of services and tools to help you put your documents online. The latest fad seems to be the online document sharing sites where you can upload and share your documents in their original formats. ...

Bountii Upgrades Broaden Price Comparison Shopping

Bountii is a price comparison search engine that launched late last year, along with some funding from Y Combinator. As far as price comparison search engines go, Bountii not only restricts the number of retailers it crawls, but then digs deeper into...