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MacBook Owners Up In Arms About New Copyright Software: Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is bundling a form of copyright protection software into new MacBooks that has some buyers up in arms. Called High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection HDCP, the technology prevents MacBook owners from playing movies they've purchased through iTunes on many external monitors, TVs or projectors—meaning they're stuck watching...; Tags: Software, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection, Notebooks, Digital Music, Digital Media, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Tameka Kee, Companies, Apple, Legal, DRM, Technologies/Formats, NetFlix Inc.; External links 2008-11-20
Industry Moves: Microsoft's Search Guru Brad Goldberg Turns VC: And another one bites the dust. Brad Goldberg, Microsoft's GM for Live Search, is leaving to head up the online business at Peak6, a Chicago-based investment firm. TechFlash confirmed the news with a MSFT exec who said the departure was "amicable." The company will replace Goldberg with Mike Nichols...; Tags: Advertising, Companies, Financial Services, Google Inc., Industry Moves, Management, Microsoft, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Live Search, MSFT, Sales, Sales Force Management, Sales Strategy, Search, Strategy, Tameka Kee, Technologies/Formats, Yahoo! Inc.; External links 2008-12-17
Gale Acquires HighBeam For Online Research: Educational publisher Gale has bought HighBeam Research to further its development in user experience. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. HighBeam has long been a content provider for the Cengage Learning subsidiary, so Gale calls the acquisition a "natural extension of [its] user-focused strategy." HighBeam, which is best...; Tags: HighBeam Research Inc., Gale, E-books, Personal Technology, Information, Technologies/Formats, VC+M&A, Mergers & Acquisitions, Amanda Natividad; External links 2008-12-16
Kosmix Adds A Big $20 Million Round; Time Warner Leads; Ed Zander Joins: Search technology company Kosmix has picked up a big $20 million in a fourth round of funding led by *Time Warner* Investments. Existing backers Accel Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners and DAG Ventures also participated in the round, and interestingly, former *Motorola* CEO Ed Zander joining as a private investor....; Tags: Time Warner Inc., Round, Health Care, Ed Zander, Kosmix, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Portals, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Internet, Media, Health Content, Technologies/Formats, Search, VC+M&A, Venture Capital, Tameka Kee; External links 2008-12-09
Icahn: No MSFT-YHOO Search Deal?For Now: Activist investor and Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) director Carl Icahn is throwing more cold water on speculation that the company is about to sell its search business to Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT). While he would like to see Microsoft take the search off Yahoo's hands, MarketWatch quotes Icahn as saying there's...; Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Carl Icahn, MSFT, Corporate Governance, Search, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Companies, Microsoft, Yahoo, Technologies/Formats, David Kaplan, Microsoft Corp.; External links 2008-12-03

iPerceptions Gets $3.65 Million For Online Analytics: Website analytics firm iPerceptions has secured $3.65 million in a round of funding. Montreal-based VC firm Telesystem Ltd and private investor Skuli Mogensen provided the financing, which iPerceptions will use to continue to expand internationally and roll out a new version of its 4Q Website survey product. The NY-based...; Tags: Analytics, Survey, iPerceptions, Marketing Research, Venture Capital, Financial Accounting, Marketing, Finance, Financing Startups, Advertising, Technologies/Formats, VC+M&A, Tameka Kee; External links 2008-12-03
Microsoft, Yahoo Hammering Out $20 Billion Search Buyout: Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is working out a deal that would ultimately net it Yahoo's search business for $20 billion, The Times reports. It's a complex deal with many moving parts: —MSFT would initially only invest $5 billion, with the option to buy out the new unit for $20 billion...; Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., MSFT, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Investment, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Advertising, Companies, Microsoft, Yahoo, Technologies/Formats, Search, VC+M&A, Mergers & Acquisitions, Tameka Kee; External links 2008-11-30
Haven't Ordered Your Holiday Kindle Yet? Never Mind: *Amazon* is promoting the heck out of its Kindle digital reader on its front page and across the e-commerce site but won't be shipping any until well into Q109. The current wait time: 11-13 weeks. Dan Frommer confirmed with the company that it has sold out of the devices....; Tags: Amazon.com Inc., *Amazon*, Web Technology, E-business/E-Commerce, Sales Strategy, Internet, Sales, Companies, Amazon.com, Media, Books, Technologies/Formats, eEditions, Staci D. Kramer; External links 2008-11-26
Haven't Ordered Your Holiday Kindle Yet? Never Mind: *Amazon* is promoting the heck out of its Kindle digital reader on its front page and across the e-commerce site but won't be shipping any until well into Q109. The current wait time: 11-13 weeks. Dan Frommer confirmed with the company that it has sold out of the devices....; Tags: Amazon.com Inc., *Amazon*, Web Technology, E-business/E-Commerce, Sales Strategy, Internet, Sales, Companies, Amazon.com, Media, Books, Technologies/Formats, eEditions, Staci D. Kramer; External links 2008-11-26
Microsoft's Personal Reboot: Web-Centric, But Beyond "The Cloud": Steve Ballmer may be Microsoft's CEO, but Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie is the more important "man behind the curtain." Tasked with filling Bill Gates' massive computing shoes since 2006, Ozzie's main focus has been helping to revamp MSFT's products and services so that they're relevant to the Web...; Tags: Web, Advertisement, Ray Ozzie, Microsoft Corp., MSFT, Microsoft Windows, Tools & Techniques, Channel Management, Operating Systems, Software, Management, Marketing, Advertising, Companies, Google, Microsoft, Technologies/Formats, Tameka Kee, Apple Inc., Google Inc.; External links 2008-11-25
DVD Sales Down; Blu-Ray's Missing Its Mark: What's Hollywood To Do?: Now it's Hollywood's turn to feel the financial crunch, and it comes in the form of an even deeper slump in DVD sales. Stats compiled from studios themselves and independent media tracking services reflect a downward trend, NYT (FRB: 066570) reports. And it has insiders like Amir Malin, a...; Tags: Hollywood, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., Blu-ray, Sales Strategy, DVD, Consumer Electronics, Sales Force Management, Sales, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Companies, Sony, Entertainment, Movies, Technologies/Formats, Tameka Kee; External links 2008-11-21
Yahoo Updates Privacy Controls On Search, Pageviews: Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), perhaps hoping to get the focus off its finances and CEO search, will reduce the amount of time it holds on to user data to three months from just over a year. After that period, Yahoo will "anonymize" user log data within 90 days with limited...; Tags: Advertising, Companies, Yahoo, Legal, Regulatory, Technologies/Formats, Search, David Kaplan, Time Warner Inc., Yahoo! Inc.; External links 2008-12-17