Dan Farber, over at ZDNet, is reporting that LinkedIn’s founder, Reid Hoffman, has made their plans clear to open up API’s and create a developer platform. I am not exactly sure whether this means that developers will now be able to create applications, using LinkedIn’s data to be displayed on their own site or if [...]

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News.com is reporting that the domain name (and the business behind the name) Business.com is being auctioned off by the men who bought it in 1999 for a whopping $7.5 million. The Wall Street Journal cites unnamed sources “familiar with the matter” who speculate that Business.com could fetch as much as $300 million to $400 [...]

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The U.K.’s The Times is reporting that News Corp., the Rupert Murdoch-helmed company that purchased MySpace in 2005 for $580 million, may be willing to trade it. According to Times writer Dan Sabbagh’s article, News Corp. is mulling a swap of MySpace to Yahoo in exchange for a 25 percent stake in the dot-com.

The Times [...]

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Research tidbit: In today’s “Monday Morning Memo” from Roy Williams (aka Wizard of the Ads), he mentions 10 ways retail is changing. This is so interesting I thought I’d share.

1. Hidden Profit Centers are the new Markup
Low-cost providers such as Sam’s Club and Best Buy are selling “in-store exchange” policies at the cash register to [...]

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Online auctioneer eBay has pulled its advertising from search company Google’s AdWords network in the United States, an eBay spokesman said on Wednesday.

“This is part of an ongoing experiment to look at how we market across all media channels,” said eBay spokesman Hani Durzy.

AdWords is Google’s advertising system that shows ads based on words in [...]

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Until now, the Yahoo photo-sharing Web site had operated in English only. But on Tuesday, Yahoo is extending its interface to speakers of Spanish, French, German, Korean, Italian, Portuguese and traditional Chinese.

The company expects membership growth from the move, said Stewart Butterfield, Flickr co-founder and general manager, though he wasn’t specific about the company’s goals.

Today, [...]

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A company founded by MySpace.com’s ex-chairman is announcing on Tuesday its purchase of video site ExpertVillage.com to bolster its “how-to” archives.

Demand Media did not release the financial terms of the purchase.

ExpertVillage, founded last year, operates a site with about 17,000 videos that run one to three minutes each on everything from reducing jet lag to [...]

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TechCrunch reported late on Friday about a hot new rumor in the social media space. The Germany-based business networking site Xing, according to TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington, may be in talks to acquire online address book management company Plaxo. The deal is rumored to be in the $250 million range—a significant buy indeed.

Plaxo, for some background, [...]

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Mozy.com is taking online, automated backups, to a new level.

I have been using their service for sometime now and have every confidence that they are secure with my files.

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IT’S BEEN a wild week for Ali Partovi.

In the past seven days, the chief executive of Seattle-based iLike has watched—sometimes helplessly—as his online music business has swelled with hundreds of thousands of new members. The adoption of the music recommendation service was so rapid that Partovi sent out an urgent e-mail plea last weekend trying [...]

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