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		<title><![CDATA[Why Europe Trails The U.S. In The Digital Investment Stakes]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ America has a healthier market for digital investment deals than Europe because of its structural advantages and a more prominent culture of tech capitalism, according to a panel of online investors. Speaking at the Noah conference in London&#8212;an event organised by former Lehman Brothers executive director Marco Jo Rodzynek&#8212;Skype...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:06:34 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[After The Buyout: Skype To Work With Silverlake Companies?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Skype is enjoying getting to know its new owners as a &#8220;truly independent&#8221; technology company after the sale by eBay, says product strategy strategy Michael Bartlett.&#8220;eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) has been a great parent to us, but now we&#8217;re truly independent so now we can really focus on our core...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:23:05 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Report: PE Firms Investing $180 Million In Chinese Web Portal Sina]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Three private equity houses are investing $180 million in web portal Sina (NSDQ: SINA), one of China&#8217;s biggest online businesses, according to reports from Reuters.com and WSJ, citing sources. Sequoia Capital is joining with Chinese investment groups Fountainvest Partners and CITIC Capital to back a management-led purchase of 5.6...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:34:47 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Another One Bites The Dust: BitTorrent Giant Mininova Forced To Go Legal]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ It calls itself &#8220;the ultimate BitTorrent source&#8221;, but P2P tracker Mininova has now removed almost all links to copyrighted content after complying with a cease-and-desist court ruling in August from Dutch entertainment rightsholder group Brein.As the site&#8217;s staff write in a blog post, only content uploaded via the site&#8217;s...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 09:33:51 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Telegraph Editor Lewis Made Digital MD, Launches New 'Entrepreneurial' Division]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ UK&#8217;s Telegraph Media Group editor-in-chief Will Lewis is becoming the company&#8217;s managing director for digital, and will head a new &#8220;entrepreneurial&#8221; division with 50 staff to lead the company&#8217;s search for new revenue streams. Lewis retains his editor-in-chief role across print and online, but Daily Telegraph deputy editor Tony...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:58:11 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The WoW Paywall: What Newspapers Can Learn From Orcs And Dwarves]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Newspapers haven&#8217;t yet found the secret sauce of getting consumers to pay online, but games publishers certainly have. While Rupert Murdoch delays his grand paywall scheme and local papers start to tentatively get in on the act, Activision-Blizzard&#8217;s World of Warcraft celebrates its fifth birthday this week: its 12...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:13:01 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[More MMO M&A In Russia: Naspers Buying Astrum]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Russian online games is a sector investors should be keeping a close eye on&#8230; South African media conglomerate Naspers has been granted anti-trust permission to buy between 38 percent and 100 percent of Russian online games developer Astrum Online Entertainment from majority shareholder Digital Sky Technologies.As Kommersant via Yakov...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:07:07 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Swedish Music Biz Claims Piracy Victory As Digital Music Sales Increase 80 Percent]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Has the tide turned against bedroom P2P file-sharers in the music industry&#8217;s epic fight against piracy? The IFPI&#8217;s branch in Sweden&#8212;the home of illegal file-sharing&#8212;is reporting that Swedish music sales rose 18 percent in the first nine months of the year, after seven years of consecutive decline, following the...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Informa In Talks To Buy Springer Science And Business Media]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ B2B magazine and data publisher Informa is in preliminary talks to buy German academic publisher Springer Science + Business Media, majority owned by European PE houses Cinven and Candover. As it no doubt often has to point out, Springer is not part of German newspaper and mag publisher Axel...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Vivendi Snaps Up More Of France's Canal+ As NBCU Price Talks Continue]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Vivendi (EPA: VIV) may not be able be able to agree a price to offload its 20 percent stake in the NBCU JV&#8212;but at home, the French multimedia group has no doubts about plans to grow its domestic TV empire.On Monday the company announced a deal to buy the...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Fair Do's? A Million Spotify Streams Earned Gaga $167]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ How much money do artists really make from Spotify? According to Swedish paper Expressen, 2009&#8217;s standout breakthrough artist Lady Gaga and her songwriter Redone made just SEK1150 (£100.76; $166.56) in songwriting royalties from one million Spotify plays of her hit Poker Face in Sweden in the first five months...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:59:30 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Twitter Premium Accounts Due By Year's End]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ So how&#8217;s Twitter going to make any money? One of its biggest fans, British actor and polymath Stephen Fry, gave co-founder Biz Stone one idea when the pair shared a Nesta panel in London on Thursday&#8230;&#8220;Supposing I was to say to someone: &#8216;you can have my Twitter identity for...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:26:34 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[U.S. Labels Unconvinced By Spotify's Freemium Model]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ On-demand music streamer Spotify&#8217;s U.S. launch is being held up because labels are concerned too few users may migrate from ad-supported to premium.FT.com reports anonymous concerns from three of the four major labels. One exec: &#8220;As an ad-supported service, the economics don&#8217;t work at all.&#8220;We think Spotify is a...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:43:46 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Mag Publisher Burda Buying A Quarter Of Xing; $287 Million Valuation]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ German mag publisher Burda Media is buying a 25.1 percent stake in the business-focused social networking site Xing.com for a total of ?48.29 million (£42.7 million, $71.9 million), making it Xing&#8217;s biggest single shareholder.Burda is making the deal through its Burda Digital division, buying 1.32 million shares priced ?36.50....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:23:40 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Books Biz Cautious Toward Google Despite Revised Settlement]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Google (NSDQ: GOOG) may have agreed a revised settlement with U.S. book publishers for its ambitious digitisation and online retail plans - but some in the book business are greeting the deal with gritted teeth.During a roundtable discussion about the settlement, hosted by Google in London on Monday, Paul...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:47:43 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Boo.com Owner's Sale Revives DotCom Nostalgia]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Remember Boo.com? It was the British-based online fashion retailer that launched a decade ago amid much hype, burned through £100 million ($166 million) in 18 months and then burned out in a haze of &#8220;corporate hubris&#8221; and &#8220;technical hurdles&#8221;, as we put it at the time. Well, the site...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:57:39 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Vivendi Profits Rise On Acti-Blizz Games Success: Call Of Duty 'Biggest Entertainment Launch Ever']]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Activision&#8217;s Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 grossed more than $300 million in sales in its first 24 hours just in the US and the UK, making it not just the biggest video game launch of the year, but the biggest entertainment launch, in any medium, ever. That most...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:43:04 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Spotify's US Launch Now Delayed To 2010, More Hopeful On China]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ American music fans will have to wait a little longer to try out much talked-about music streaming service Spotify. As Rafat tweeted last night, CEO Daniel Ek told the Monaco Media Forum that the launch would now come early next year as agreements with &#8220;thousands&#8221; of US publishers and...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:35:55 -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[Guardian News & Media Cutting More Than 100 Jobs]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Guardian News & Media, publisher of The Guardian newspaper and Guardian.co.uk, will cut more than 100 of its 1,700 editorial and commercial jobs as the company moves to reverse &#8220;unsustainable&#8221; losses, it told staff in a series of briefings at the company&#8217;s Kings Place HQ in Wednesday. No timetable...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:24:39 -0800</pubDate>
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