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Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Media on May 20, 2011 at 6:00 am PT
Barnes & Noble Inc. is expected to debut a new e-reader on Tuesday, marking the latest chapter in the bookseller’s battle with Apple Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. to dominate the fast-growing digital book sales business.
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Scott Austin, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on May 20, 2011 at 12:00 am PT
Y Combinator is considered by many as Silicon Valley’s elite start-up school, offering selected entrepreneurs a three-month crash course to help them build companies and raise capital.
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Joan E. Solsman, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on May 19, 2011 at 4:57 pm PT
Barnes & Noble Inc. said that Liberty Media Corp. has offered to buy the bookseller in a deal valuing it at about $1 billion.
Barnes & Noble shares were up 20 percent in after-hours trading Thursday on the news, matching the $17-a-share offer price from John Malone’s media empire.
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Amy Schatz, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on May 19, 2011 at 2:18 pm PT
Google Inc., Apple Inc. and Facebook Inc. defended their privacy practices Thursday to lawmakers considering how to update privacy laws to include more protections for Internet users.
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Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on May 19, 2011 at 12:04 pm PT
What can Foursquare tell us about how people live? To learn about where people go and what they do on the location-based social network, Digits collected every check-in on the service for a week earlier this year, via the Foursquare “firehose.”
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Don Clark, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on May 19, 2011 at 6:50 am PT
Intel had one key mission at its analyst meeting this week: convincing investors that it can still catch up to rival ARM Holdings in the mobile market. One of its arguments seems to have miffed longtime partner Microsoft.
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Spencer E. Ante and Shayndi Raice, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on May 19, 2011 at 12:01 am PT
AT&T Inc. executives met in Silicon Valley with technology companies and top venture-capital firms this week, courting a key constituency as the telecommunications giant presses the case for its proposed $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile USA, a unit of Deutsche Telekom AG.
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Voices in News on May 18, 2011 at 1:35 pm PT
As
tipped a week ago by
All Things D’s Kara Swisher,
Yahoo is buying 5to1, a self-serve premium advertising platform for major media publishers. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but a figure of $25 million has been tossed around. After the transaction closes in Q2, the 5to1 team will join Yahoo’s Ad Marketplaces group.
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Loretta Chao, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on May 18, 2011 at 8:00 am PT
Yahoo Inc. is aggressively expanding its China research and development operation, Chief Product Officer Blake Irving said in Beijing Wednesday, despite worsening tensions between the U.S. Internet company and the operator of its Chinese website, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries in News on May 18, 2011 at 12:09 am PT
A bill introduced in the Senate on Tuesday would require law enforcement to get a search warrant before obtaining old data like emails stored on servers — a major update to U.S. digital-privacy laws.
