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<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 08:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Software groups urge probe of Novell patent sale]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 08:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Julie01</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[The Open Software Initiative and the Free Software Foundation yesterday released a joint statement, urging the U.S. Department of Justice, as well as the German Federal Cartel Office, to investigate the sale of Novell's more than 800 patents as part of its multibillion dollar sale to Attachmate in November. In December, the OSI sent a position paper to the German Federal Cartel Office. That paper has been updated to name both software groups as the concerned parties and filed with the U.S. Department of Justice. &quot;Since making that filing, we have been joined by the Free Software Foundation and have updated that statement to represent that both our communities--the open source community and the free software community--are concerned that CPTN represents a potential broadside not against any particular product in the market today, but against one of the only viable sources of competition for these companies in software today: the free, libre, and open source software (FLOSS) communities.&quot; The OSI now says the Antitrust Division of the Justice Department has acknowledged receiving the groups' contention.At the heart of OSI and FSF's complaint are the patents that will be handed over to CPTN Holdings, which made up of Microsoft, Apple, Oracle, and EMC. The two software groups point to Microsoft and Oracle in particular being major competitors to the FLOSS movement, as each company cited it as a &quot;competitive threat&quot; in their 10-K SEC filings. Furthermore, the group goes on to say that there is an inherent danger in having all those companies under the guise of a consortium. &quot;That is, they have no incentive to support FLOSS as a competitive alternative to proprietary software,&quot; the letter said. &quot;CPTN creates a cover to launch patent attacks against companies delivering solutions based on FLOSS while creating for each principal a measure of plausible deniability that the patent attack was not their idea.&quot;Earlier this week the sale of the patents to CPTN Holdings got the go-ahead from the European Commission vice president and competition commissioner, Joaquin Almunia. Almunia said that it would be &quot;unlikely&quot; for the transaction to raise any eyebrows from the EU's merger regulation commission, or be infringing of the EU's competition rules.(via PC World)<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Samsung outlook disappoints]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 08:10:35 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Julie01</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Samsung expects to post a profit from the fourth quarter, but its cash gains are on the downswing.The company said Friday in Korea that it expects to show a 3 trillion won (about $2.67 billion) operating profit in its fourth-quarter financial report when it announces results in the coming weeks. That compares with a 3.4 trillion won operating profit in the same period the previous year and a 4.9 trillion won operating profit in the third quarter of 2010.Samsung's estimated profit decline in the fourth quarter was due mainly to plunging TV prices, the company said. Earlier this week, market researcher DisplaySearch reported that television pricing in North America declined by 6 percent in 2010. In 2009, the North America television market saw TV pricing drop by 22 percent.DisplaySearch also noted that the LCD TV market will see its &quot;first ever revenue decline&quot; in 2011 due to continuing price erosion.That's especially a concern for Samsung. During the third quarter of 2010, the company shipped more televisions than any other vendor, securing 19.3 percent of all television shipments to the United States, according to a report from market researcher iSuppli. All told, Samsung shipped 1.8 million televisions during the period.But it's not all bad news for Samsung. The company reported earlier this week that it has sold 10 million Galaxy S smartphones since their launch in June.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Panasonic redials smartphone plans beyond Japan]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2010 08:10:14 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Julie01</dc:creator>
<category>Technology</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=panasonic-redials-smartphone-plans-beyond-japan</guid>
<description><![CDATA[(Credit:Panasonic)Panasonic is planning to make a comeback with its smartphones outside of Japan in 2012. This is after the Japanese consumer electronics giant pulled out of the overseas mobile phone markets in 2006.The devices, which will run on Google's Android mobile operating system, will feature networking capabilities with other Panasonic products. The Japanese firm will sell its smartphones in Japan next year before making inroads to overseas markets in 2012.&quot;We misjudged the speed at which smartphones would be taken up in the Japanese market,&quot; Panasonic's head of mobile communications, Osamu Waki, said at a news conference today, according to Reuters.Waki added that the company noted the rising popularity of Android and wants &quot;to catch up quickly&quot;.Panasonic has revised its forecast sales of between 5.4 and 5.5 million units in Japan to 15 million units globally by 2015. (Source: Crave Asia)<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Microsoft files 2nd suit against Motorola in weeks]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 08:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Julie01</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=microsoft-files-2nd-suit-against-motorola-in-weeks</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Microsoft on Tuesday filed a new patent-related lawsuit against Motorola, its second against the company in the past six weeks. The new lawsuit, which was filed earlier today with the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington at Seattle, accuses Motorola of charging too much for royalties on its patent licenses, which Microsoft uses in both the wireless networking and video decoders found in theXbox. News of the lawsuit was first reported by Reuters. A Microsoft spokesperson told CNET: Microsoft filed an action today in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington against Motorola, Inc. for breach of Motorola's contractual commitments to the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) to license identified patents related to wireless and video coding technologies under reasonable and non-discriminatory terms and conditions. Those commitments are designed to benefit all parties that rely upon these standards, and Microsoft has been harmed by Motorola's failure to honor them in recent demand letters seeking royalties from Microsoft.Microsoft sued Motorola in October, alleging that the company was infringing on its own smartphone-related patents. That move was made ahead of the U.S. launch of Microsoft'sWindows Phone 7. Devices hit store shelves yesterday.A full copy of the complaint is embedded below:MSFT Motorola Complaint        Josh Lowensohn     Full Profile E-mail Josh Lowensohn   E-mail Josh Lowensohn If you have a question or comment for Josh Lowensohn, you can submit it here. However, because our editors and writers receive hundreds of requests, we cannot tell you when you may receive a response.   Submit your question or comment here: 0 of 1500 characters       Josh Lowensohn writes about Web start-ups, video games, multimedia tools, and the occasional robot. He joined CNET in 2006, and posts to the Web Crawler and Webware blogs. E-mail Josh, or follow him on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/Josh.  <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google offers cash for finding Web security holes]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2010 07:10:09 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Julie01</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Taking a page from the Chrome playbook, Google has launched a program to encourage outsiders to find security vulnerabilities in its Web properties.Under the Chrome vulnerability-finding bounty program, the company already has been paying varying sums to those who locate holes in the browser. Also part of the package has been mention on the Chromium security hall of fame and a public thank-you to those providing Google with sustained security help.The duplication of the initial program is geared to uncover &quot;any serious bug which directly affects the confidentiality or integrity of user data,&quot; members of Google's security team said in a blog post yesterday. Payments are commensurate with the seriousness of the vulnerability and include $500, $1,000, $1,337, and $3,133.70 (that's &quot;leet&quot; and &quot;eleet&quot; for the leetspeak-impaired).&quot;We are announcing an experimental new vulnerability reward program that applies to Google Web properties,&quot; the security team said. &quot;As well as enabling us to thank regular contributors in a new way, we hope our new program will attract new researchers and the types of reports that help make our users safer.&quot;The new program rewards those who find issues such as cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in Google properties including YouTube, Orkut, Blogger, Google Docs, and Gmail. It doesn't include software that runs on local computing devices such as Android, Picasa, and Sketchup, Google said, though it may expand the program in that direction later.There are exclusions. Some types of problems, such as denial-of-service attacks and social engineering, aren't eligible for rewards. And bug finders in Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria aren't eligible for legal reasons.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Crave Extras: Everything comes up iPod]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 07:10:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Julie01</dc:creator>
<category>Mobile &amp; Electronics</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=crave-extras-everything-comes-up-ipod</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Sure, they were released weeks ago, but the new iPods are still a hot commodity and will probably become even more sought-after as the holidays near. Donald Bell and I take an in-depth look at the currentiPod lineup, including the iPod Touch, iPod Nano, and iPod Shuffle. Rest assured, we make the requisite amount of funnies for a video starring the two of us. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Spotify says no acquisition talks with Apple]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 07:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Julie01</dc:creator>
<category>Marketing and advertising</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=spotify-says-no-acquisition-talks-with-apple</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Contrary to a published report, Apple is not talked with Spotify about acquiring the European digital music service, a Spotify spokesman said today. TechCrunch reported that it received an anonymous tip that indicated Apple had spoken to Spotify about a possible acquisition. The blog suggested it had &quot;dug into&quot; the information and suggested the information checked out.&quot;Apple and Spotify are in on-again, off-again discussions about an acquisition, but at best it's very early in the process,&quot; TechCrunch wrote. &quot;No firm price has been offered, no term sheet tabled. Still, it's interesting that the two are talking.&quot;Spotify's spokesman Jim Butcher said acquisitions discussions with Apple have never taken place. &quot;We wouldn't normally comment on this kind of speculation, but we wanted to make it clear that we have absolutely no intention of selling Spotify,&quot; he said.Spotify already has a strong hold of the streaming music market and is trying to make the move to the United States. The company's attempts to open a digital music service here have met with multiple delays, but the managers have insisted they will launch before the end of the year. Two weeks ago, CNET reported that Apple executives had recently discussed Spotify with their label counterparts, voicing concerns about the potential for a free streaming service to cut into already softening download sales. Music industry sources said then that Apple was considering the possibility of launching its own subscription service, but many at the company remained skeptical subscription services would ever work. <br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Privacy spat heats up: Google taunts Facebook with &''Trap My Data&'' feature]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Julie01</dc:creator>
<category>Latest News</category>
<guid>http://www.haaze.com/story.php?title=privacy-spat-heats-up-google-taunts-facebook-with-8220trap-my-data8221-feature</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The battle of sass between Google and Facebook got a lot hotter today, when Google lobbed another grenade at Facebooka4a4s policies on user data by specifically asking users if they want to potentially compromise their friends&amp;' information by uploading it to Facebook.Google essentially declared war last week on the social network by blocking Facebook from importing contacts from Gmail &amp;8212' a step Facebook takes to check to see which friends you email with might already be signed up for the social network &amp;8212' because, Google says, it believes a4Adata should be free&amp;'' and Facebook does not allow easy exporting of your friends&amp;' contact information.Facebook responded by asking users to simply upload a file of their friends&amp;' contacts, thereby bypassing Google&amp;'s blocking efforts.Now the search giant is striking back by allowing the file download, but first directing users to a sarcastically nameda4ATrap My Dataa4 page that asks them if they are a4Asuper surea4 they want to be a4Alocking up your contact data about your friends.a4In a multi-paragraph explanation, Google lays out its concerns about how Facebook may use the data it collects and even allowing any (potentially) outraged participants to click a box that will a4Aregister a complaint over data protectionism.a4Google, however, has engaged in similar data protectionism with its Orkut social network, a Facebook employee recently pointed out, in a move to fend off Facebook&amp;'s growing popularity in Orkut&amp;'s strongholds of Brazil and India..How much this openness vs. proprietary ideology has to do with Googlea4a4s launch of its own rumored social network, Google Me, widely expected sometime this year, remains to be seen.But we can be sure that Google is declaring early on and vociferously that although Facebook may be by far the worlda4a4s most dominant player, it does not have the right to bully other competitors to play by its rules.The full text of Googlea4a4s new a4Awarninga4 page follows:Trap My DataHold on a second. Are you super sure you want to import your contact information for your friends into a service that wona4a4t let you get it outHerea4a4s the not-so-fine print. You have been directed to this page from a site that doesna4a4t allow you to re-export your data to other services, essentially locking up your contact data about your friends. So once you import your data there, you wona4a4t be able to get it out. We think this is an important thing for you to know before you import your data there. Although we strongly disagree with this data protectionism, the choice is yours. Because, after all, you should have control over your data.Of course, you are always free to download your contacts using the export feature in Google Contacts.This public service announcement is brought to you on behalf of your friends in Google Contacts.Register a complaint over data protectionism. (Google will not record or display your name or email address.)Proceed with exporting this data. I recognize that once ita4a4s been imported to another service, that service may not allow me to export it back out.Select one or more options.Previous Story: Chips for tablets: The silicon land grab is onPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: data portability, gmail, Google Contacts, privacy, Social networksCompanies: Facebook, Google          Tags: data portability, gmail, Google Contacts, privacy, Social networksCompanies: Facebook, GoogleRiley McDermid is a contributing reporter to VentureBeat. She was previously the online editor at institutional investing and trading forum Markets Media, which she joined in 2008 from Dow Jones/MarketWatch in New York. Her work has appeared in the The New York Times, the Associated Press, Portfolio Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and Barrona4a4s. She has won awards from the American Society of Business Publishers and Editors, the Magazine Association of the Southeast, the Mississippi Press Association and the Atlanta Press Club, and was a finalist for the Pacemaker Prize for excellence in news reporting.VentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Gmail Lite: If You Build It Google, We Will&nbsp'Come]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Julie01</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[I&amp;'ve seen the future of messaging a4&quot; it looks a lot like Facebook Messages. More specifically, it looks like the new version of Facebook Messages that the company began rolling out two weeks ago. But I&amp;'m not sure that the future is Facebook Messages. At least not for me. Because that&amp;'s simply not how I have used Facebook and it&amp;'s too hard to switch my patterns now. And that&amp;'s why Gmail has a huge opportunity. We need a Gmail Lite.At first, I was underwhelmed by the new Facebook Messages. But that&amp;'s just because I really hadn&amp;'t been using Facebook Messages before. I would get a message every now and then, but mostly I would ignore the area. But in the past couple of weeks, probably as the feature gets turned on for more users, I&amp;'ve started to get more messages coming to me this way. And as that has happened, I&amp;'m seeing the absolute beauty of the system. Namely, I&amp;'m seeing the beauty in its speed.I&amp;'m not even talking about loading times or anything necessarily related to the technology behind Facebook Messages. What I&amp;'m talking about is the feature that allows you to respond to a message simply by typing in the tiny box below it and hitting return to send. Some people hate this idea because they want the return button to insert a carriage return like the old days a4&quot; and that&amp;'s fine, that&amp;'s still an option right next to the box you&amp;'re typing in a4&quot; but I love this quick-send ability. Love. Love. Love it.The famous cliche is that every second counts. But it&amp;'s a cliche because it&amp;'s true. Every second does count. At first, you might think it&amp;'s ridiculous that I&amp;'m jumping for joy because Facebook Messages is saving me one or two seconds by not having to use the send button. But those seconds really do add up. I wonder how many times over the years I&amp;'ve hit that send button Tens of thousands Hundreds of thousands100,000 seconds is almost 28 hours. In other words, I&amp;'ve probably wasted a day of my life hitting that stupid button.And yes, I know there are keyboard shortcuts. But the percentage of people who use those is likely pretty small. Plus, on Gmail, the keyboard shortcut to send something involves hitting two keys: tab then enter. If you could cut out the tab part, you&amp;'d still be saving about a half second. Again, per message. It adds up.But that&amp;'s just one part of it.&amp;nbsp'Let&amp;'s talk more specifically about Gmail.The product I&amp;'m envisioning would be an opt-in version of the service which would replace the standard Gmail that we all know and love (when it&amp;'s not unbearably slow these days) with a modified version. This new version would work much like Facebook Messages in that when you load a message thread, you&amp;'d have a small box under it: the reply area. To reply, you&amp;'d simply type a message and hit return, and off it would go.There would be no options to change the fonts of the email. No subject line. No CC field, no BCC field. No left-align, right-align, quotes, bullet lists, etc. None of the crap that you don&amp;'t use 99 percent of the time. It would just be a tiny input box that you could type a message into, or paste a URL into. Ideally, you&amp;'d be able to drag a photo or document in this box too, to attach it to the message (like you now can with regular Gmail). And then you send it. Again, just like Facebook Messages.If for some reason you needed to add any of the above mentioned clutter to your message, there would be a button to make that stuff appear. But by default, it would all be off. It would just be a small input box.But the real key to this Gmail Lite that I envision would be a restriction. Message length.Currently, a huge amount of time with email is wasted trying to fit it into some lame formal style.Dear so and so,Thank you so much for the such and such. It was great to so and so. Hopefully we can such and such again.Oh and blah blah blah. Wasn&amp;'t that blahSincerely,The person whose time was just wastedP.S. Writing this sentence just wasted another 20 seconds of my time.If you want to be formal with someone, send them a letter. 99 percent of messages online should be brief.Message: Drinks tonightResponse: YesThat&amp;'s it. If anyone wonders why SMS has been exploding in usage over the past decade (in spite of rip-off costs), this is it. There&amp;'s no reason email shouldn&amp;'t work like that as well.And while email may be getting less formal with time, I would bet that the length of the emails actually isn&amp;'t going down. That&amp;'s why we need a new restriction in place in this Gmail Lite to enforce that. Back in September, my&amp;nbsp'colleague&amp;nbsp'Jon wrote about the awesome movement to send three sentence emails. It&amp;'s a wonderful idea, but it&amp;'s just not catching on in the way that it needs to in order to fix the problem.We need a built-in solution.Gmail Lite should borrow the character restriction from Twitter and enforce it. 140 characters. But maybe bump it up to 160 characters, the actual SMS limit, as usernames wouldn&amp;'t be needed with this system. This way, messages could also be sent via SMS (again, like Facebook Messages). More importantly, messages would have to be brief. Even more brief than three sentences. It would be so beautiful.Part of the problem with email coming in is that when one comes in, you know in the back of your mind that you&amp;'ll have to type a bunch of words and hit send to respond to it. It will take time. So you put it off. If there was just this input box that forced you to be as brief as possible, I bet that a lot of people would respond more immediately. And the response rate in general would be higher.How do I know I see it in my new Facebook Messages inbox and my Twitter Direct Message area.Obviously, this idea will have some people screaming bloddy murder. But remember, Gmail Lite would just be an opt-in option for users. And if you needed to send a long email, you could hop back into regular Gmail Classic with the click of a button.But I would bet that a huge percentage of Gmail users would opt-in to using Gmail Lite as their primary email solution. And it would come with some sort of built-in notifier in the mail itself (either at the bottom or in the metadata) to let people know that you were responding with Gmail Lite, and that&amp;'s why your response was so shot (like what&amp;nbsp'three.sentenc.es does). It might be weird at first, but eventually, everyone would get used to it.So what&amp;'s stopping a startup from doing this Why does it have to be Facebook or Google Because, sadly, this is probably only going to work with a messaging system that has hundreds of millions of people already using it. (And of those, Gmail is in my mind still definitely the best.) Twitter has come the closest to doing this from the outside, but that service is used differently a4&quot; it&amp;'s public messaging versus private messaging. And private Direct Messages are severely limited by the follow factor (someone has to be following you for you to DM them).Gmail&amp;'s Priority Inbox is great. But it really just dances around the true inbox problem. It helps you determine what email to ignore. It doesn&amp;'t solve the fundamental issue that we&amp;'re all seeing more and more as inboxes grow: the lame legacy formalities of the system. And the outdated ideas such as the subject line and even the send button.We need to kill all that stuff off. And we need a current email system to help do it, so it will actually catch on. Facebook Message may well be the future of this type of online communication for the younger generations, but Gmail has a chance to mimic the idea and get the rest of us involved right now.Gmail Lite. If you build it Google, we will come.[image: Universal Pictures]CrunchBase InformationGmailFacebookInformation provided by CrunchBase<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Is Twitter worth $4B Kleiner Perkins evidently thinks so]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Julie01</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Various reports in the past couple of weeks have suggested that Twitter is in the midst of raising a new round of money that is akin to a hot-and-heavy speed dating session. A couple of weeks ago, the rumor du jour put the company&amp;'s valuation in the $3 billion range.But Techcrunch reports tonight that Twitter&amp;'s valuation is more like $4 billion, thanks to a bidding war in which Kleiner Perkins Caufield &amp;amp' Byers is now the likely winner.At the recent Web 2.0 Summit, Kleiner Perkins managing director John Doerr said he regretted that his company didn&amp;'t invest in Twitter when the valuation was much smaller. He said it wasn&amp;'t clear at the time if Twitter&amp;'s popularity would last and if it would figure out how to make money. But Twitter co-founder Ev Williams was quite confident that the company had found its business model in advertising.Techcrunch says Doerr himself is leading the charge and doesn&amp;'t want to lose Twitter again. Doerr and his partner Bing Gordon have recently been saying they think there is a big tech boom coming, not a bubble.Previous Story: Zynga launches FarmVille in Japan: will the Japanese like purple cowsPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'                        Dean is lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. He covers video games, security, chips and a variety of other subjects. Dean previously worked at the San Jose Mercury News, the Wall Street Journal, the Red Herring, the Los Angeles Times, the Orange County Register and the Dallas Times Herald. He is the author of two books, Opening the Xbox and the Xbox 360 Uncloaked. Follow him on Twitter at @deantak, and follow VentureBeat on Twitter at @venturebeat.VentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Turn raises another $20M for its automated ad tools]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov -001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Turn, one of the a4Ademand-side platformsa4 (DSPs) that are becoming increasingly important to online advertising, just raised $20 million in new funding.Advertising agencies use DSPs to centralize all their ad-buying across multiple ad exchanges and networks, usually with some degree of automated bidding and audience targeting. Not only are DSPs managing a big portion of online ad spending, but theya4a4re reportedly a major factor behind the display advertising growth Google has seen.When Turn launched its platform back in 2008, it emphasized the flexibility that it offers advertisers. When I asked the company via email how it stands out from the DSP crowd today, president and chief executive Bill Demas pointed to the high return on investment it offers advertisers, the breadth of its platform, and its transparency. He wrote:As a Silicon Valley-based company, we offer a seamless, end-to-end integrated solution a4&quot; in other words, we put the a4Pa4 in DSP.  As a platform company, this comprises three areas: (1) an enterprise-class technology infrastructure for real-time bidding' (2) an algorithmically optimized data and media platform: ita4a4s about the algorithms and not manual tricks' (3) intuitive self-service software empowering marketers to run their own campaigns.Demas didn&amp;'t offer any specific details about Turn&amp;'s success so far, except to say that the company has consistently doubled its revenue every year.Greenberg Associates led the current round, and all of Turna4a4s previous investors (Norwest Venture Partners, Trident Capital, Shasta Ventures and Focus Ventures) also participated. The Redwood City, Calif.-headquartered company has now raised $57 million.Previous Story: Qteros raises $22 million for ethanol production, inks developmental partnershipPrintEmailTwitterFacebookGoogle BuzzLinkedIn      DiggStumbleUponRedditDeliciousGoogleMore&amp;8230'          Tags: demand side platforms, online ads, online advertisingCompanies: Focus Ventures, Greenberg Associates, Norwest Venture Partners, Shasta Ventures, Trident Capital, TurnPeople: Bill Demas          Tags: demand side platforms, online ads, online advertisingCompanies: Focus Ventures, Greenberg Associates, Norwest Venture Partners, Shasta Ventures, Trident Capital, TurnPeople: Bill DemasAnthony is a senior editor at VentureBeat, as well as its reporter on media, advertising, and social networks. Before joining the site in 2008, Anthony worked at the Hollister Free Lance, where he won awards from the California Newspaper Publishers Association for breaking news coverage and writing. He attended Stanford University and now lives in San Francisco. Reach him at anthony@venturebeat.com. (All story pitches should also be sent to tips@venturebeat.com) You can also follow Anthony on Twitter.VentureBeat has new weekly email newsletters.  Stay on top of the news, and don't miss a beat.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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