In This Update:
• Google Begins Effort to Find Internet Blockers
• Live Cargo Buys CMWare
• Mobile Advertising Start-Up AdMob Raises Another $12.5 Million
• YouTube Said to Be Near Hollywood Deal
• Kodak Posts Loss, to Cut up to 4,500 Jobs
• Obama Meets with Technology CEOs
• VirtuOz Raises $11.4 Million for Virtual Agents that Learn
• WPP Invests $25 Million In Online Audience Researcher Omniture
• GamesCampus and Cybersports Move into Online Sports
• Google Exec Katie Jacobs Stanton Joins Obama Administration
• Eight Mobile Technologies to Watch in 2009, 2010
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In This Update:
• Senate OKs DTV Delay and Offers $9B for Broadband
• Commerce Secretary May Hail from Silicon Valley
• Apple Awarded Multi-Touch Patent
• Mozilla to Fund Open-Source Web Video Tech Development
• Verizon Earnings Up 15 Percent, Boosted By Wireless And Broadband Units
• AdMob Circles Around Android Applications
• Netflix Has Stellar 4th Quarter Results
• Microsoft: The Zune is Here to Stay
• Connect3 Systems Acquired By DemandTec
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In This Update:
• Banker Emerges as Cubs’ Top Bidder
• IAC Sells ReserveAmerica to Active Network in Stock Swap
• Jinni: Wants to be Pandora for Movies
• mEgo Raises $2.5 Million for Avatar-Based Widgets
• Extreme Reach Raises $1.5 Million for Video Advertising
• Google’s $726 Million Writedown on AOL Is More Painful To Time Warner
• Digg Laying off 10% of Workforce, Hiring Stronger Sales Team
• 4 Hidden Wins for Tech in the Green Stimulus Bill
• Apple Macintosh Turns 25
• Tripwolf Raises Another $2.5 Million For Its Online Travel Guide
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January 21, 2009

In This Update:
• Google to Halt Print Ads Program for Newspapers
• Microsoft Sells off Shares In Comcast
• Change.gov Shifts to Whitehouse.gov
• Linden Lab acquires Xtreet and OnRez, Brokers of Virtual Goods for Second Life
• New York Times’ Policy on Facebook and Other Social Networking Sites
• Facebook + CNN = Future of TV
• WPP Phasing Out MediaCom Digital Unit Beyond Interaction
• Inaugural Traffic Jams Web, Cell Phones
• All Major Canadian ISPs Slow Down P2P Traffic
• Navitell Raises $3 Million for Mobile Storyteller Software
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In This Update:
• Cisco CTO Being Considered for U.S. CTO Gig
• Can Apple Fill the Void?
• Twitter and the iPhone on the Scene of the US Airways Hudson River Crash
• Los Angeles Radio Station Goes Web-Only
• Sharpcast Raises $10 Million for Sync Service SugarSync
• Departing Yahoo President Has History of Missteps
• House Wants $6 Billion for Broadband Initiative
• Online Marketing-Intelligence Firm InsideView Raises $6.5 Million
• How Search Marketers are Reaching Local Customers on Facebook
• Sundance Opens Film Festival by Breaking the Mold
• TweetDeck Secures Angel Funding
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