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News Corp. exec sees Hulu charging fees for access

Technology / Internet

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(AP) -- Hulu, the free online video site where television shows and movies can be watched in their entirety, will start charging fees at some point, one of its owners said.


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Facebook buys social media aggregator FriendFeed

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created Aug 10, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Facebook is buying a Web service called FriendFeed that gives users a view of what their friends are doing on all sorts of social media sites, including Facebook's rivals.


Newsday to charge online fees for non-subscribers

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created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Newsday will start charging some readers $5 per week for access to its Web site beginning next Wednesday, a move many newspapers have been contemplating but few have yet to try for fear of driving readers away.


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New Pirate Bay to be based on give-and-take models

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created Jul 18, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 6

(AP) -- One of the world's largest filesharing Web sites, The Pirate Bay, is going legal through a series of give-and-take payment models that in some cases may even earn its users a bundle of cash, the new ...


News Corp. plans fees for newspaper Web sites

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created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Visitors to the Web sites of newspapers owned by News Corp. will have to start coughing up fees to read the news within the next year, Chairman Rupert Murdoch said.


Study: Lack of capital not a 'death sentence' for start-ups

Other Sciences / Economics

created Jun 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

A new study from North Carolina State University is turning the conventional wisdom about technology start-up companies on its head, showing that ventures with moderate levels of undercapitalization can still be successful ...


How Stuff Works: Social networking

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created Aug 25, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 0

For the last two years, the amount of buzz and discussion around sites like Facebook and Twitter has been deafening. And lately the headlines have been especially interesting.


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YouTube to offer online movie rentals

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created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

YouTube is considering streaming movies for rental, a move that would see the free video-sharing site charging for content for the first time, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.


Web site tracks world online censorship reports (AP)

Web site tracks world online censorship reports

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created Aug 04, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(AP) -- When Shanghai blogger Isaac Mao tried to watch a YouTube clip of Chinese police beating Tibetans, all he got was an error message.


White House opens Web site programming to public

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created Oct 25, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (9) | comments 5

(AP) -- A programming overhaul of the White House's Web site has set the tech world abuzz. For low-techies, it's a snooze - you won't notice a thing.


Would-be Pirate Bay buyer ousted from stock market

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created Sep 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(AP) -- The would-be buyer of Swedish file-sharing Web site The Pirate Bay has been kicked out of the smallcap stock exchange Aktietorget for misleading the market, the Swedish trading platform said Wednesday.


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Website offers emails from beyond the grave

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created Sep 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The fear of dying suddenly, without the chance to mend wrongs or say goodbye, has prompted an Australian entrepreneur to start a website where people can contact loved ones from beyond the grave.


Internet regulator mulls cybersquatting block

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created Jul 13, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- The Internet's key oversight agency is considering a centralized database of trademark holders, to cut down on questionable registrations of new Internet addresses.


SMOS and Proba-2 launch rescheduled for November

SMOS and Proba-2 launch rescheduled for November (w/Video)

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Following an agreement between ESA, Krunichev Space Centre and Eurockot Launch Services, ESA's next Earth Explorer mission SMOS and a secondary payload, the technology demonstrator Proba-2 satellite, will ...


UCSB scientists propose Antarctic location for 'missing' ice sheet

Scientists propose Antarctic location for 'missing' ice sheet

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created Aug 25, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New research by scientists at UC Santa Barbara indicates a possible Antarctic location for ice that seemed to be missing at a key point in climate history 34 million years ago. The research, which has important ...