Google has ended negotiations to buy social-news site Digg.com, according to TechCrunch.

The two companies had reportedly been in the final stage of talks to bring Digg into the Google News group for $200 million. Some sources said the trouble was due to technological incompatibilities, while another said it was more about a clash of personalities. [...]

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Amazon.com could become the e-commerce engine behind the MySpace Music service expected to launch in September, according to a report on TechCrunch.

In April, MySpace, which is already used by young acts trying to promote their music, announced it was working on a music service that would handle songs from at least three of the four [...]

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SAN FRANCISCO—Google opened its website Knol to the public on Wednesday, allowing people to write about their areas of expertise under their bylines in a twist on encyclopedia Wikipedia, which allows anonymity.

“We are deeply convinced that authorship—knowing who wrote what—helps readers trust the content,” said Cedric DuPont, product manager for Knol.

The name of the [...]

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This week, Facebook took a number of strategic steps toward its goal of giving people the “power to share and make the world more open and connected.” That’s how founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg described the mission statement for Facebook.

With that mission statement, similar to Google’s mission to “organize the world’s information and make it [...]

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Facebook made several important announcements to kickoff its F8 developer conference this afternoon: the launch of Facebook Connect, the Great Apps program for preferred applications, and the ability for developers to translate their applications into different languages. However, a few things that developers and onlookers thought Facebook might announce didn’t come to pass. Here’s a [...]

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Not even a few months ago, Digg was on the verge of being bought out by Google or Microsoft. While those rumors have largely disappeared, the possibility (and even likelihood) of one of the two giants snatching up Digg is still prominent.

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MySpace is still the top dog among social networks in the United States, according to researcher Hitwise, but its No. 2 rival Facebook is gaining fast.

MySpace attracted as much as 73 percent of U.S. visitor market share for social networks in June, down by 6 percent from the same period last year, according to a [...]

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Digg commenter Hiji writes, “This is the beginning of the end. In a few years all the major blogs and social-media sites will be owned by large corporations, putting us right back where we started.”

The topic of discussion is, of course, TechCrunch’s rumor that Digg will soon be acquired by Google for somewhere in the [...]

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Social news site Digg.com, a perpetual target of acquisition rumors, is in “final negotiations” to sell itself to Google for $200 million, according to a TechCrunch report Tuesday that cited multiple sources.

The two companies have been in talks to bring Digg into the Google News group, but it could be a few weeks before the [...]

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PUYALLUP, WA – This past May, six Puyallup business owners traveled to Colorado to hear business growth guru Jon Schallert share ideas to grow, market, and promote their businesses. Shaun Nestor, of Coffee Bar in downtown Puyallup, was one of the attendees and wants every area business owner to hear what Schallert has to say.

“Jon [...]

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