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News Corp Buys Dow Jones for $5.6bn

It's been a long saga that we've dabbled into from time to time, but today Rupert Murdoch snared Dow Jones. News Corp says it will buy the newspaper for $5.6 billion, ending 105 years of ownership by the Bancroft family. It's likely to be seen as bad...

Groops is German for Ning

Groops is a German-based site that ha recently launched. It lets you create and manage your own groups, and an English version is available. With groops, you can browse through groups based on search terms or tag words. Each group displays its member...

Goombah Holding Starbucks Music Makers Contest Online

Goombah, the social music discovery site, now lets you vote for and download tracks from the 3rd annual Starbucks Music Makers Competition. The 49 semi-finalists have been announced today. The online contest portion of the contest is powered by Goomb...

VideoTag is a Game for Funny YouTube Clips

VideoTag is a game where you must tag as many YouTube videos as possible within a 10 minute time frame. This is a single player game, and you can make it to the leaderboard if you gain enough points. And how do you earn points? By tagging the videos,...

Buzznet Adds Yahoo Vets to its Executive Team

Buzznet, the music and pop culture social network, is adding two more people to its executive team. John Glascott, former senior sales executive at Hearst, iVillage, Yahoo and RealAge, has been appointed Executive Vice President of Sales. Elizabeth O...

Associated Content Gets $10M in Funding

Associated Content has gotten a $10 million Series B round of funding, led by Canaan Partners. The citizen journalism site enables users to become contributors and create an online presence around their own content. As a site visitor or member you ca...

Zoho Reaches 300,000 Members

Zoho has reached a landmark, having registered over 300,000 members. The company is now moving along the S curve, and is seeing some exponential growth for its suite of web-based document creation tools. The growth can also be attributed to the compa...

TreeHugger Acquired by Discovery Communications for $10M

TreeHugger, the popular blog about eco-friendliness, has been acquired by Discovery Communications, owners of the Discovery Channel. The price is said to be $10 million. The partnership will help TreeHugger reach its goals of getting mainstream atten...

SubmitYourVote Launches Basic Polls Site

SubmitYourVote is a new polling website that has launched its service with a community included. You don't need to register in order to cast your vote on a particular poll, but membership is required for poll creation, and other site-specific actions...

SpinVox Service Soon Available on Skype

SpinVox, the UK-based voice-to-text service, has teamed up with Skype to offer its features for the VoIP provider. This new feature is set to be made available around the end of the year. It works like this: you'll be able to leave a voice message fo...

Mister Wong Holding Contest to Find New (Non-Racist) Logo

Mister Wong, the German-based social bookmarking site, has had some global growing pains, largely due to its logo, which was perceived as racist to a very large crowd when the service launched in the U.S. See some Mashable reader commentary here. Its...

YeboTV Broadcasting Slayer Live

YeboTV, a video-sharing site with a focus on live music webcasts, will be streaming Slayer's concert at the San Diego Sports Arena. The concert will take place on August 25, 2007. This will be a live stream, letting viewers around the world watch the...

MySidekick Social Search Engine Reviewed

You got the invites already. Now here's a review. MySidekick is a social search engine that modifies searches as more people contribute data to the service. You can perform a regular keyword search on MySidekick, which will offer up the usual and exp...

MyCatSpace Launches Niche Pet Community

MyCatSpace has officially launched. It comes from the same people that created MyDogSpace. The site is a social network for you and your kitty to meet other pet lovers and pets. The site is exactly like MyDogSpace, only it's for cats. You can sign in...

AC/DC Sells Music through Verizon--Not iTunes

AC/DC, the Australian band, has finally decided to begin selling its music in a digital format, but has shocked many with its decision to not sign with iTunes for distribution and sales. The band has instead decided to sign a contract with Verizon V ...

Fliva Officially Launches Interactive Personality Widget

Fliva, the kinda-polls widget that's been in private beta for the past few months, has officially launched its service to the public. Read our initial review here, and check out the Mash-tastic Fliva widget while you're at it. You'll remember that Fl...

Similpedia Searches Similar Results on Wikipedia

Similpedia is a search tool that is designed specifically to give you results on Wikipedia. What you do is provide the URL or a paragraph of text, and Simpledia will find related content on Wikipedia. The actual search function works well enough, and...

Unwired Nation Turns Your Site Content into a Phone Call

Unwired Nation is a new service that lets your turn your web content into an audio recording for people to listen to on their cell phones. Using its API, you can utilize the Unwired Nation service to create a podcast of sorts, which others can listen...

Trackfeeder Launches Daily Review Facebook App

TrackFeeder, the site that brings you music reviews as a way to promote music discovery, has launched a Facebook application called Track of the Day. The application is simple enough; it offers a review for the chosen track that's being promoted for ...

Could YouTube Ever Be Shut Down for Cyberbullying?

A group of teachers in the UK are requesting that some websites such as YouTube should be shut down in order to keep students and administrative staff from being bullied in online networks. The specific issue here seems to be clips of students and te...

Feedburner Adds Self-Publishing Ads

Feedburner is rolling out new options for pushing your feed ad content further and monetizing it better, with a new advertising option. Clearly the acquisition of Feedburner by Google is garnering some quick and useful results, this coming shortly af...

CompanyLoop Is Facebook Plus LinkedIn

CompanyLoop is a new site that lets businesses create groups for coworkers to connect online. This operates somewhat like a white label version of LinkedIn, limiting functionality to only those included in the company. In order to join CompanyLoop, y...

Graphita Officially Launches Image Editing Tools

Graphita Live Studio, the web-based image editing tool, is now live. Read our initial coverage of graphita here. There are basic tools offered for image editing with graphita's Live Studio service: add shapes, captions, effects, etc. Options for turn...

MySidekick.com Social Search: 100 Free Invites

MySidekick.com is a new social search engine from Gary Culliss, chairman and founder of search company Direct Hit, which sold to Ask.com after an IPO back in 2000. Since August 2005, he has been working with the lead developer of Direct Hit, Daniel R...

Last.fm Adds Video Embeds

It's been a slow rollout for Last.fm video,the video service from the music recommendations site. We reported in May that they'd begun soliciting videos from bands and labels, and today they went a step further, providing video embeds like the one be...

Disney Acquires Club Penguin in $700 Million Deal

Disney has acquired the kid-focused virtual world of Club Penguin in a deal totaling $700 million: $350 million cash and the chance to earn out $350 million more between now until 2009. The Habbo Hotel-like world for kids seems like a perfect fit for...

GoFish No Longer Buying Bolt.com

GoFish's purchase of Bolt.com, which aimed to salvage Bolt.com from a lawsuit and subsequent $10 million settlement with Universal Music, has fallen apart. The stock-for-stock transaction had Bolt.com going to GoFish for $30 million and was reported ...