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		<title><![CDATA[Microsoft Gives Bing Maps A Much-Needed Facelift]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is plugging a hole in its online portfolio. The company is announcing a remake of Bing Maps, which is getting new &#8220;Streetside&#8221; images to match Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Maps&#8217; own Streetview, along with a new app platform. With the platform, Bing Maps users can see Tweets...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:39:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Microsoft Launches A Twitter-Like Service In China]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ At least for now, Twitter has pretty much locked up the microblogging market in the U.S., but a couple of big players seem to think they can still get traction in some foreign countries. Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is launching a Twitter-like service in China, IDG News Service reports. The...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 04:30:46 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Microsoft: Bing Going Particularly Strong Among 18- To 24-Year-Olds]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ In the six months since Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) launched Bing, the company&#8217;s share of the search market has inched up from 8 to 9.9 percent, according to comScore (NSDQ: SCOR). So, who are the converts? At the Credit Suisse Annual Technology Conference, Microsoft SVP Yusuf Mehdi said the company...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:50:21 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Microsoft-Yahoo Deal Gets Approval ... In Canada]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ It&#8217;s not exactly the announcement everybody is waiting for, but Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) officials are trumpeting that their ad pact has gotten the green light in Canada and Australia. Antitrust authorities in both countries raised no objections. No official statement from Canada yet but Australian...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:10:22 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Xbox Connection Funnels A Million New Subscribers To Last.fm]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ CBS should be pleased with its choice to allow Microsoft to sync Xbox LIVE to Last.fm, as the partnership has already netted the streaming music service nearly a million new subscribers. Last.fm went live on Xbox last Tuesday, and both companies are already hyping the deal as a success...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:10:03 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Big News Bucks Unlikely From Bing? Journalism Could Be The Loser]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The reports say Microsoft is offering to pay newspaper publishers for indexing their stories, if Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is blocked from doing the same.But how real are the talks? One source familiar with discussions advised us caution against &#8220;the idea that there would be vast sums of money in...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:35:33 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[MSNBC.com Taking Over @BreakingNews Twitter Feed; Signs On As BNO News' First Client]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Well, it isn&#8217;t exactly the acquisition I was hoping for, but close, and probably for the better: BNO News, of the popular @BreakingNews Twitter feed and the BNO iPhone app, is launching its business syndication venture, called BNO News Wire, and MSNBC.com has signed on as the first client....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:30:24 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Microsoft In Talks To Get News Publishers To Pull Content From Google]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The next battle in the search wars could be over access to news content. The FT reports that Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT)&#8212;which has made increasing the market share of its Bing search engine its top online priority&#8212;has reached out to &#8220;big online publishers&#8221; in order to get them to pull...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:21:38 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Sony Prepping A Pay-To-Play Service For The PlayStation Network]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Functionality aside, one of the biggest differences between Microsoft&#8217;s Xbox LIVE gamer network, and Sony&#8217;s PlayStation Network PSN has been the cost: If you want to play against other gamers on Xbox LIVE, you need to pay around $50 annually for Gold service though various retailers offer discount cards;...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Google Shows Off Its Chrome OS]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ [Ongoing] Google (NSDQ: GOOG) isn&#8217;t launching its Google Chrome operating system quite yet&#8212;but it is ready to talk about it. During an event Thursday, VP of product management Sundar Pichai said the operating system was a &#8220;year away&#8221; from launch but said the company had &#8220;made tons of progress&#8221;...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:09:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Microsoft's Ballmer Defends His Company's Performance]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer hasn&#8217;t quite gotten the best reviews lately (Newsweek&#8216;s Dan Lyons recently called Microsoft under his leadership the company&#8217;s &#8220;lost decade.&#8221;) But during the company&#8217;s annual meeting Thursday, Ballmer offered a defense of the company&#8217;s performance, saying that despite Microsoft&#8217;s first ever annual drop...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:00:11 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Microsoft Brings Social Networks?Starting With LinkedIn?To Outlook]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ With more people turning to social networks to communicate, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is adding a new feature to the next version of Outlook so that users can track the activities of contacts on social networks from within their e-mail inboxes. The feature&#8212;called Outlook Social Connector&#8212;aggregates social networking updates, a...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[First Look: Zune, Twitter, Facebook And Last.fm On Xbox]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Four months after announcing the features, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) added social networking and music radio functionality to its Xbox 360 console on Tuesday, along with the first European foray for its Zune brand see earlier reports from Tameka and I. Here are my initial explorations with each new service&#8230;Last.fm...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:10:57 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[As Last.fm, Facebook And Zune Go Live On Xbox, Sony Preps Social Features For PS3]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) rolled out a slew of new social features for the Xbox 360 today, making its already popular Xbox LIVE network a much more comprehensive source of entertainment. The upgrade lets people post status updates to Twitter and Facebook, view and share photos, and even stream music...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:35:43 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Five Media Deals I'd Like To See Happen In 2010, Round 2]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Mark May is a principal and senior internet and digital media research analyst at Needham & Company, LLC, a full-service growth-company investment bank.Ken Sonenclar&#8217;s Leading Voices piece on Thursday titled &#8220;Five Media Deals I&#8217;d Like To See Happen In 2010&#8221; was thoroughly thought-provoking. Here are my own thoughts around...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:01:14 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Microsoft's Massive Partners With comScore To Prove In-Game Ads Work]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Microsoft&#8217;s Massive Inc. unit is on a mission to let you know that its in-game ads work. The business is partnering with comScore (NSDQ: SCOR) to measure how gamers respond to its ads. Specifically, Massive says it wants to figure out &#8220;which in-game ads motivate gamers to visit Web...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:30:22 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Microsoft Disconnects Xbox Pirates, No Three Strikes Needed]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Hundreds of thousands of Xbox 360 users who have illegally modified their console to play copied games have been disconnected from the online Xbox Live service as part of an annual drive to counter Xbox pirates. Guardian.co.uk puts the figure as high as one million of the service&#8217;s 20...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:49:14 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Five Media Deals I'd Like To See Happen In 2010]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://dw.com.com/redir?destUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fpaidcontent.org%2Farticle%2F419-five-media-deals-id-like-to-see-happen-in-2010%2F&siteid=23&tag=contentnext]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[ Ken Sonenclar is a managing director at DeSilva + Phillips, LLC, a New York investment bank specializing in media.This brutal year in M&A is mercifully winding down. The global credit squeeze, deep recession, and shrinking valuations have kept deals in check. But with the economy rebooting and many big...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[IDC: Global Online Ad Spend Has Bottomed Out?But Real Growth Won't Show Until Q1]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The feeling that &#8220;things are getting better&#8221; is becoming pretty pervasive among the conversations online ad execs are having, but the recent spate of reports suggest that it would be more accurate to say &#8220;things aren&#8217;t getting worse.&#8221; That&#8217;s what the latest quarterly ad data from IDC&#8217;s Karsten Weide...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Microsoft Combines MSN Video And Bing Video Search]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ In announcing an overhaul of its MSN portal last week, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) said it would increasingly play up its Bing search engine on the portal. It&#8217;s now taking its biggest step so far on that front, by folding its MSN Video site into its Bing video search engine....]]></description>
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