Peter Kafka

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It's Not Hulu, It's Tudou: Chinese Video Site Files for IPO

Hulu keeps muttering about a public offering, but it hasn’t launched one yet, and may never do so. But if you want to take a flier on Web video, here’s one for you: Tudou, the Chinese video site that has raised at least $135 million from private investors, wants to raise $120 million more via a Nasdaq IPO. Joseph Tartakoff walks you through the highlights.


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Moore’s Law means that more and more things can be done practically for free, if only it weren’t for those people who want to be paid. People are the flies in Moore’s Law’s ointment. When machines get incredibly cheap to run, people seem correspondingly expensive.

— From Jaron Lanier’s new book, “Who Owns the Future?” excerpted on Wired.com