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EBay, investors reach deal with Skype founders

EBay Inc. said Friday that the investor group buying a majority stake in Skype has reached an agreement with the founders of the online calling service, clearing the way for the deal to proceed. Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis sold Skype to eBay in 20 ...

From JAMES TEMPLE, San Francisco Chronicle,  7 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Skype,  eBay Inc.,  Niklas Zennstrom,  Janus Friis,  Joost

Will Google Books Settlement 2.0 quell concerns?

1) The settlement must not grant Google an exclusive set of rights (de facto or otherwise) or result in any one entity gaining control over access to and distribution of the world's largest digital database of books. 2) Authors and other rights holders ...

From JAMES TEMPLE, The Tech Chronicles,  6 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Google Inc.,  U.S. Congress,  Authors Guild,  U.S. Department of Justice,  Microsoft Corporation

It's Official: Skype founders settle, join investor group

EBay Inc. said today that the investor group buying a majority stake in Skype has reached a settlement agreement with the founders of the online calling service, clearing the way for the deal to proceed. Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis sold Skype to ...

From JAMES TEMPLE, The Tech Chronicles,  6 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Skype,  eBay Inc.,  Niklas Zennstrom,  Janus Friis,  Joost

Report: Skype settlement, sale near

The founders of Skype have agreed to join the investment consortium buying most of EBay's stake in the online calling service and drop lawsuits against the parties involved, Bloomberg news reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The news ...

From JAMES TEMPLE, The Tech Chronicles,  5 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Skype,  Niklas Zennstrom,  Janus Friis,  eBay Inc.

Google to unveil new privacy controls

lets you log into a console and see all the personal data that the company maintains on a Google Account user across all its products, from Gmail and YouTube to Blogger and Picasa. It allows users to log into the settings page of their Google account ...

From JAMES TEMPLE, The Tech Chronicles,  4 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Google Inc.,  John Simpson,  Electronic Frontier Foundation

PayPal looks for developers' applications

The San Jose online marketplace announced at a conference a set of tools necessary to build products on top of the popular service, enabling entrepreneurs and businesses to dream up their own uses and tap into the $2,000 already moving through PayPal ...

From JAMES TEMPLE, San Francisco Chronicle,  3 Nov 2009
Related Topics: eBay Inc.,  John Donahoe,  Black Eyed Peas,  Apple, Inc.,  Forrester Research, Inc.

Google's interview brain teasers

You are shrunk to the height of a nickel and your mass is proportionally reduced so as to maintain your original density. You are then thrown into an empty glass blender. The blades will start moving in 60 seconds. What do you do? Every man in a ...

From JAMES TEMPLE, The Tech Chronicles,  2 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Google Inc.

Google talent search: error 502?

They hire too many young overachievers -- people who have only ever "shown aptitude for having aptitude," as that one writer said. So it feels like half of everyone is angry about learning what being in the workforce is actually like, and shocked that ...

From JAMES TEMPLE, The Tech Chronicles,  30 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Microsoft Corporation

Personalization moving into screening spotlight

It's the Internet equivalent of a friend's referral, adding more of a human touch to a medium long dominated by crawlers and algorithms. Sophisticated surfers are seeking out the highly specialized sites that create or aggregate the content that most ...

From JAMES TEMPLE, San Francisco Chronicle,  29 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Experian,  Google Inc.,  Craigslist.org,  Craig Newmark,  Twitter Inc

Google unveils rumored music service

Confirming rumors that began percolating last week, Google Inc. will announce today that music search queries will now turn up links to preview and buy songs. Over the next day, U.S. users entering the names of songs, artists, albums or lyrics into the ...

From JAMES TEMPLE, The Tech Chronicles,  28 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Yahoo!

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