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Episodic Makes Flash Videos iPhone-Friendly

One of the most frustrating things about the iPhone is that it can’t handle Flash, which has become the standard for streaming video on the web. YouTube managed to work around this by...

GigaOm Buys A Mobile Blog - One Less Independent Blog In The World

Blogging network GigaOm will announce the acquisition of the small but excellent mobile-focused blog jkOnTheRun this evening. Founders James Kendrick and Kevin Tofel will remain in Houston and...

GigaOm Buys A Mobile Blog - The Beginning Of The Blog Rollup?

Blogging network GigaOm will announce the acquisition of the small but excellent mobile-focused blog jkOnTheRun this evening. Founders James Kendrick and Kevin Tofel will remain in Houston and...

Sugar Inc Breaks Up With NBC, Brings Ad Sales In House

Fast growing women-focused blog network Sugar Inc announced that they’ve terminated their year-old ad sales relationship with NBC. All ad sales will now be via an in-house sales team, says the...

Apple Launching App Store Beta Program

Apple’s App Store has seen an unprecedented amount of success and exposure since its launch, with millions of total downloads and 909 applications already available. Unfortunately, Apple has...

Google In Final Negotiations To Acquire Digg For “Around $200 Million”

Google’s on and off negotiations with Digg have been back on in a big way for the last six weeks, we’ve heard from multiple sources inside of Google, and the two companies are close to a...

Kluster Launches Private Survey Manager

Kluster, the crowd sourcing startup that launched earlier this year, has introduced support for new private Klusters designed to help groups manage decision making. Each Kluster offers users a chance...

MySpace Confirms OpenID Support, Launches Data Availability On Flixster and Eventful

MySpace is rolling out a couple of announcements this morning a day ahead of Facebook’s F8 developer conference. The first is confirmation of our story that they are supporting OpenID,...

Engadget Chief Ryan Block Confirms Resignation, To Start New Company With Peter Rojas

Ryan Block confirms our previous story that he’s stepping down from the top spot at gadget blog Engadget. He will be launching an as-yet-to-be-named startup with Peter Rojas, Engadget’s former...

Are Facebook Ads Going to Zero? Lookery Lowers Its Guarantee to 7.5-Cent CPMs.

Nobody can make money on social network ads. Even Google (which controls a lot of the inventory on MySpace) is having a hard time. How worthless are these ads? Lookery, an ad network for social...