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Newspapers Shifting Coverage Local As Online Challenge Grows

A Pew study of US newspapers released today finds that national and international news coverage is declining as ad revenue plummets an emphasis shifts toward local stories. While those survey...

Battle is Over: Icahn Will Join Yahoo Board

Just last week we said that the proxy fight between Carl Icahn and the Yahoo board was going to drag on until at least August. In a surprising twist of event, it now seems the battle is almost over,...

Qik Opens Public Beta - Come Chat!

The live streaming video service Qik just opened up its previously closed beta to the public. Apparently, the public is so interested in the service that the site crashed completely just after the...

Twhirl Adds Identi.ca, Becomes Killer App (Yes, Really)

Yesterday, the big news for the identi.ca crowd was an answer to their wishes: Identi.ca is now supported in the AIR app Twhirl. Why is the support for this open-source Twitter clone so important?...

Union Square Ventures Invests in Open Source Cloud Platform

Union Square Ventures, the VC shop that funded Del.icio.us, FeedBurner, Etsy and Twitter, has placed its latest bet in the clouds. Cloud computing service 10gen has taken $1.5 million from the high...

Like Its Users, The New Facebook Is All Grown Up

Yesterday, we told you that Facebook would be launching its new design today and briefly highlighted the coming changes. Today we've received the official word from the Facebook team that the new...

Relay For Life of Second Life Raises Over $150k in First Hour!

Relay for Life of Second Life is a charity event that celebrates the victories and remembers those that have been lost in the fight against cancer. Th 4th annual RFLofSL relay takes place today in...

More Amazon S3 Downtime: How Much is Too Much?

Today's big news is that Amazon's S3 online storage service has experienced significant downtime. Allen Stern, who hosts his blog's images on S3, reported that the downtime lasted 3.5 hours. Startups...

Facebook Redesign To Go Live Tomorrow

digg_url= 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Facebook_Redesign_To_Go_Live_Tomorrow';digg_bgcolor= '#ffffff';digg_skin= 'normal';Five months later and it looks like Facebook is ready to release its new...

Nokia vs Apple in The Internet Mobile Device Market

We've been as excited as everyone else about the iPhone 3G. But it's easy to forget that the iphone is just a tiny player in the mobile phone market. Even if it hits Steve Jobs' target of 10 million...