Time Warner invests in teen virtual world Gaia Online
Time Warner has taken a stake in the site, with eyes on its virtual retail sales. Source: VentureBeat
Getty bolsters its web presence
Photo giant seeking to exploit image sharing online. Source: Wall Street Journal
NBC in alliance to combat video piracy
Microsoft and AT&T also join coalition to tackle illegal copying online. Source: FT
CBS Web guru Quincy Smith talks Digg partnership
Digg projects with CBSNews.com are in the pipeline. Source: CNet.com
Belo and Yahoo! reach deal for video news clips
Thirteen TV stations will provide exclusive local news video to Yahoo. Source: Reuters
Google processes over 20 petabytes of data per day
And a petabyte is 1024 terabytes, FYI. Source: Niall Kennedy
Visits to BBC iPlayer soar after relaunch and marketing campaign
The on-demand service has seen a 14-fold increase in visits following its relaunch and first marketing campaign. Source: Guardian
Pluck is up for sale
The social media tools site could fetch $75m. Source: paidContent
Cisco exec calls for open standards
"The future is a connected lifestyle." Source: paidContent
Google, IBM and VeriSign in talks to join OpenID
Official news due later this month. Source: TechCrunch UK
ESPN.com sees more mobile users than PC
Mobile site saw 4.9m visitors in one day, but 4.5m PC users. Source: MocoNews
Sarkozy proposes internet tax to fund public TV station
The ad revenues of private television channels could also be used to fund a French BBC. Source: MocoNews
Ultra-mobile future beckons for PCs
The desktop's dominance may be ending as laptops and ultra-mobile PCs begin to reap the benefit of greater, computing power. Source: BBC
Microsoft won't launch iPhone rival
The priority is software, says exec. Source: Reuters
A glimpse of the year to come
BBC's Eric Huggers pastes notes from his C21 speech. Source: BBC Internet Blog
Music fees row forces Pandora to pull plug on UK webcasts
Internet radio station Pandora is shutting down its UK service, claiming it cannot afford to pay licence fees being demanded by music industry trade bodies. Source: Guardian
Lily Allen asks web fans to name her show
Star asks 44,000 MySpace fans to come up with ideas. Source: Guardian
Daily Telegraph drops pdf version
The Daily Telegraph has quietly dumped Telegraph PM, the daily printable pdf version of the paper. Source: Guardian
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