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Jeff Gerstmann Returns With A Giant Bomb
GameSpot and CNET see their favorite fired game reviewer return with a rival gaming blog and a ton of street cred.
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American Airlines Drops Google Lawsuit
The use of competitor keywords had American flying into the courtroom, but both sides taxied out with a quiet and confidential settlement.
What Percent Makes A Monopoly?
Let's leave Microsoft out of this and just assume their antitrust complaints to Congress are self-servingly suspect and hypocritical—after all, Yahoo acquisition timing aside, how does a company that has controlled the computer and browser market for decades suddenly earn sympathy when they can't compete in another market?
Psst, Email Marketing? Get DKIM Now
DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM), a synthesis of email authentication work by Yahoo, Cisco, and other companies, holds a key advantage for email marketers beyond getting mail to recipients.
The (One-Sided) Anatomy Of A Startup Failure
PodTech.net had a lot of buzz around it primarily because blogger Robert Scoble left the sturdy walls of Microsoft to be a part of it. There were others with nice pedigrees, too, and $7.5 million in VC funding spelled sure success. It must not have spelled it in English, though. This week, PodTech sold to ViewPartner, a company that doesn't even seem to have a…
Google In Lawsuit Over ‘Google AdSense for domains’
Google pays domain parkers by allowing them to run a special AdSense program. Titled “Google AdSense for domains”, this program now reportedly triggered a class-action lawsuit which alleges “that Google committed fraud, business code violations, and unjust enrichment by selling ads that were unlikely to generate conversions”.
