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IBM Adds Canada’s Varicent to Its Analytics Lineup

Arik Hesseldahl in News on April 13 at 7:06 am PT

Big Blue has kicked its deal-making up a few notches this year.

Reminder: It’s Really Easy to Pirate TV. Even Live Sports.

Peter Kafka in Media on January 3 at 3:30 am PT

Today’s reminder, courtesy of the NBA, the cable guys and Union Square’s Fred Wilson.

Vizualize.me Aims to Shake Up the Resume With Data Beautification

Drake Martinet in Enterprise on August 12, 2011 at 10:02 am PT

Vizualize.me is the latest in the growing cadre of companies hoping to make your data pretty — this time for dull resumes.

Oscar Bouquets for "The Social Network," as Zuckerberg Readies for the Brickbats

Kara Swisher in News on September 17, 2010 at 5:14 am PT

It’s just a post on the popular entertainment blog “Deadline Hollywood.” But it’s a clear indication the makers of the movie about the origins of Facebook are gunning for maximum attention and Oscar buzz with only a few weeks to go before its debut. And they will further gas up the marketing machine for “The Social Network” more, even though it appears it will be devastating to the real-life version of its main subject, Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

Viral Video: "The Black Swan"

Kara Swisher in News on September 15, 2010 at 12:13 am PT

BoomTown is very much intrigued by the clear freakiness of the ballet thriller–yes, you read that right–apparent in this trailer for “The Black Swan.” Opening in December, the buzz for the movie–starring Natalie Portman as an increasingly unbalanced dancer with a rival doppelgänger–has been growing both online and off.

Twitter Didn’t Kill Gordon Lightfoot. Big Media Did.

Peter Kafka in Media on February 19, 2010 at 3:00 am PT

It’s easy to blame Twitter for falsely reporting that the guy who sings “Sundown” is dead. But you can’t pin this one on the messaging service or its users, who were merely repeating what a big Canadian news service had told them.

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Court Affirms Injunction Against Microsoft

Brent Kendall and Don Clark, Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in News on December 22, 2009 at 4:49 pm PT

A federal appeals court on Tuesday affirmed a $290 million patent-infringement judgment that will bar Microsoft Corp. from selling current versions of its flagship Word software. Microsoft said it has been preparing modified versions of the affected programs that should be ready when the injunction goes into effect on Jan. 11, allowing sales to continue without interruption