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Wall Street Mogul Starts N(ew)FL

Investment banker, Google exec lay groundwork to challenge NFL next year

May 30, 07 4:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - Wall Street renegade Bill Hambrecht is taking on one of America's biggest monopolies and launching his own professional football league. The United Football League plans to launch its challenge to the NFL's hegemony in 2008 with eight teams in non-NFL markets, including Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and Mexico City. One... More »

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Google • Wall Street • NFL • Mexico City • Mark Cuban • Las Vegas • Los Angeles • United Football League • Bill Hambrecht • football

Feds Launch Search Into Google Deal

FTC starts preliminary antitrust probe into $3 Billion DoubleClick buy

May 29, 07 4:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - The FTC has initiated an antitrust probe into search behemoth Google's $3.1 billion acquisition of a major online ad company, sources tell the New York Times. Both competitors and privacy advocates are chafing at the proposed deal between Google, which stores users' search histories, and DoubleClick, which keeps... More »

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Google • Internet • privacy • online privacy • DoubleClick • antitrust • FTC

Google Wants
to Read
Your Mind

Company's expansion plans depend on personalized advertising

May 23, 07 7:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - Google wants to know about you—all about you. The company's stated goal of "total information" extends to users' leisure time and even their careers, the Financial Times reports. The ultimate goal is to allow advertisers to target users so precisely that their ads fetch higher rates than more... More »

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Google • Internet • privacy

YouTube to Co-Host Debate

Viral video site goes from embarrassing candidates to sponsoring debates

May 17, 07 4:32 PM CDT
(Newser) - YouTube, the viral-video nemesis of many a gaffe-prone political candidate, will co-sponsor a Democratic presidential debate July 23rd in Charleston, South Carolina. CNN is the television partner for the debate, which will be the first of six, the DNC announced yesterday.  More »

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Google • YouTube • Democrats • politics • presidential campaign • Democratic National Convention • presidential debate • CNN

TV Moguls Blast Web Rivals

Parsons: 'They are
the Custer of the modern world. We
are the Sioux Nation.'

May 9, 07 8:01 AM CDT
(Newser) - A panel of top television executives at a Vegas conference yesterday went on the offensive against their digital rivals, blasting the perception that cell phones, the Web, and other digital formats are killing their business. Quite the contrary, pronounced Time Warner CEO Richard Parsons: "The Googles, they are the... More »

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television • media • Google • Internet • Viacom • YouTube • online media • Richard Parsons • News Corp

(Newser) - Could a Microsoft-Yahoo! merger be in the works? The New York Post reports that Microsoft has quietly approached the Internet giant about opening merger negotiations, after informal talks fell apart several months ago. Insiders say Microsoft is looking to fight back against Google after the search-engine leader bested it in... More »

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Yahoo • Google • Internet • Microsoft • merger • business

Google Earth Digitizes Genocide

Internet tool used to raise awareness of atrocities in Sudan

Apr 13, 07 2:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - Google Earth has teamed up with the Holocaust Museum to bring the realities of genocide to your MacBook. "Crisis in Darfur" employs Google Earth wizardry to help users visualize the scope of the atrocities currently unfolding in Sudan. Viewers can see over 1,600 damaged and destroyed villages up... More »

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technology • media • Google • Darfur • genocide • Internet • human rights • Google Earth • Sudan • Holocaust Museum • Crisis in Darfur • humanitarian

Google Dials 411

Apr 12, 07 9:06 AM CDT
(Newser) - Google has unleashed an 800-pound-gorilla in the the $8 billion market for U.S. directory assistance: a free 411 service. 1-800-GOOG-411 launched last week as part of an initiative to bring Google's power to voice searches. And unlike traditional 411, customers can call in with search terms ("pizza Upper... More »

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technology • Google • Microsoft • Tellme • voice search • communication • voice service

Advertisers Won't Get
It on eBay

Stations opt out of TV-ad auction site

Apr 6, 07 9:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - Cable networks are boycotting eBay's experiment in auctioning television airtime to ad houses, in a decision that could ground its nascent spin-off site. The networks protest that Online Media Exchange, which eBay claimed would reduce inefficiency, doesn't account for today's complex targeting and multimedia promotional packages. More »

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television • Google • eBay • cable TV • business • auction • Online Media Exchange • Dish Network • advertisements

Google Scores First Deal to Serve TV Commercials

Automated system allows advertisers to buy and track commercials

Apr 3, 07 9:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - Drunk with its success at dominating the internet ad business, Google wants to start serving up TV commercials, too. The first company to sign up is EchoStar Communications, a satellite TV provider which will announce today a deal with Google to broker commercials across its 125 TV channels. More »

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television • technology • Google • Internet • advertising • commercials • sattelite • satellite TV

Google Stares Down Viacom, Copyright

How do the boys keep YouTube from turning into  Napster?

Apr 2, 07 7:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - With Viacom incubating "the biggest copyright lawsuit in history" against YouTube, the video-sharing site is beginning to smell a bit like Napster. Which leads Clive Thompson to ponder in New York why the Google boys decided to acquire YouTube—and its looming crisis—last year. And why, once they... More »

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media • Google • Internet • Viacom • YouTube • Web 2.0 • intellectual property • copyright • Sumner Redstone

Big Guns Battle Video Sharing With Free TV Shows

Copyright-protected content will be available for free online in new NBC-News Corp. partnernship

Mar 23, 07 9:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - TV biggies NBC Universal and News Corp. are teaming up to hit YouTube with the full force of their their combined TV content, offered online for free. Starting this summer, AOL, Yahoo, Microsoft's MSN and News Corp. subsidiary MySpace will hope to win over internet users (and the advertising that... More »

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television • Yahoo • Google • Internet • YouTube • AOL • Microsoft • MSN • Rupert Murdoch • MySpace • Heroes • 24 • NBC • advertising • intellectual property • consumer • copyright • file sharing • Internet advertising • News Corp

Google's Worst Nightmare

Can Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales take on Google in search and win?

Mar 18, 07 8:41 PM CDT
(Newser) - Fast Company’s Alan Deutschman profiles Wikipedia founder Jimmy “Jimbo” Wales’ effort to take on Google in search. With 1000 initial volunteers, $4 million, and a commitment to mass collaboration Wales’ new for profit company, Wikia, mostly has idealism on its side as it takes on Google. More »

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Google • Wikipedia • Microsoft • Jimmy Wales • spam • Wikia

Viacom Sues Google

Mar 14, 07 8:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - Viacom filed a $1 billion lawsuit against Google yesterday for what it says is gross copyright infringement on YouTube, the company's newest acquisition. Google has promised to work with companies to remove copyrighted material, but Viacom complains that illegally posted clips of its programs like "The Daily Show" have... More »

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media • Google • Internet • Viacom • YouTube • copyright • lawsuit • acquisition

Billionaire's
Club Welcomes New Members

The Forbes rich list is bigger—and even wealthier—than ever

Mar 9, 07 10:27 AM CST
(Newser) - The rich are getting richer, younger, and more geographically diverse, Forbes reports, with the number of billionaires up a whopping 19 percent, and their total worth up 35 percent to $3.5 trillion. Not only have billionaires been galloping away from the pack, they've been doing it earlier, bringing the... More »

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Google • Microsoft • Bill Gates • Larry Page • Sergey Brin • Starbucks • wealth • Forbes 400 • list • money • billionaire

Turkey
Bans
YouTube

Greek videos are "insulting to Turkishness"

Mar 8, 07 1:03 PM CST
(Newser) - A Turkish court banned YouTube on Wednesday after Greek videos on the site insulted Turks—in particular Ataturk, the country's modern founding father—calling them homosexuals. The videos, part of an escalating "virtual war" between Greek and Turkish citizens belittling each other, were deemed an insult to Turkishness, a... More »

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entertainment • Turkey • Google • Internet • YouTube • European Union • virtual war • Turk Telekom • freedom of expression

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