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• Youth media ad network GoFish reels in $22.5M
  Camille Ricketts
  Dec 05 2008
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  • Business & Finance

  GoFish, a media-based advertising network targeted for ages six to 17 (and moms), announced that it brought in $22.5 million in private placement funding, which it will use to pay off its $14.5 ...

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• Koofers raises $500K to pass along old exams, study guides
  Camille Ricketts
  Dec 05 2008
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  • Business & Finance

  Every high school and college campus has unofficial channels for swapping old exams, opinions about teachers, study guides and grim grade distribution tales. Now online student community Koofers aims ...

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• Rising royalties send Yahoo's Launchcast to CBS
  Michael Liedtke
  Dec 04 2008
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  • Business & Finance

  Yahoo Inc. is plugging its Internet radio service into CBS Corp.'s webcasting network in a move driven by dramatically higher fees for airing music online.Yahoo's retreat from operating a standalone ...

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• First NFL game in 3-D fumbles, then recovers
  Ryan Nakashima
  Dec 04 2008
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  • Business & Finance

  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The first NFL game broadcast to theaters live in 3-D fumbled, then recovered Thursday night. Two satellite glitches blacked out the broadcast to theaters in Boston, New York and ...

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• No Santa this year? Consumer electronics group cuts quarterly sales forecast
  Dean Takahashi
  Dec 04 2008
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  • Business & Finance

  In the no surprise department, the Consumer Electronics Association shaved its forecast for fourth-quarter sales as it reconsidered the impact of the falling economy. Yes, that’s right. Santa ...

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• Visa debuts credit card with keyboard that fights fraud
  Sindya Bhanoo, The Industry Standard
  Dec 04 2008
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  • Software & Web

  In 2009, some credit cardholders in the United Kingdom will get to test out a new Visa card that has an LCD display and a keypad. Visa hopes the new technology well help battle online fraud related ...

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• Feds charge Silicon Valley financier with fraud
  By Paul Elias, Associated Press Writer
  Dec 04 2008
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  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A once-high-flying Silicon Valley financier and former co-owner of the NHL's Nashville Predators was charged Thursday with fraud for allegedly bilking investors out of more ...

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• Icahn facing huge loss unless Yahoo stock rebounds
  Michael Liedtke
  Dec 04 2008
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  • Business & Finance

  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — If activist investor Carl Icahn is going to profit from his $1.8 billion bet on Yahoo Inc., the billionaire needs the struggling Internet company's stock to more than double ...

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• First Look: Facebook Connect Bound For Success
  JR Raphael
  Dec 04 2008
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  • Software & Web

  Facebook launched its Web-wide sign-on system, Facebook Connect, on Thursday -- and let me tell you, this thing has the potential to simplify and enrich social networking in a revolutionary way. The ...

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• Facebook delays employee stock sale, citing recession
  Eric Eldon
  Dec 04 2008
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  • Business & Finance

  Facebook was planning to let its employees sell some of their stock in the company per an unconventional plan we discovered this summer. But that plan is now on hold; although, from what we hear it ...

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