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BBC is also working on growing its own online presence, from the iPlayer to a potential deal with Microsoft for distribution of content for the Xbox
Oct 2 '07 -Business- www.mashable.com -online,planet,lonely
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BBC Worldwide, the international arm of BBC, has acquired Lonely Planet, the Australia-based travel information group
Oct 2 '07 -Business- www.mashable.com -online,planet,lonely
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These recent developments include LonelyPlanetTV, which launched earlier this year, and released a Facebook application not too long ago
Oct 2 '07 -Business- www.mashable.com -online,planet,lonely
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Maps on Mobile is apparently something people want
Oct 2 '07 -Business- www.gigaom.com -nokia,based,services
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A quick scan of the site this morning reveals that most top stories have at least a handful of comments
Oct 2 '07 -Business- www.readwriteweb.com -site,marketwatch,features
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Thus, eBay will only pay $530 million of the potential $1.7 billion earnout (some small consolation)
Oct 2 '07 -Business- www.alleyinsider.com -skype,ebay,billion
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Lonely Planet has been creating travel guides and programming for channels like Discovery for some time now, and with its recent initiatives for providing online content and communities, it’s not surprising that it’s been acquired
Oct 2 '07 -Business- www.mashable.com -online,planet,lonely
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Skype is rapidly surrendering its early dominance of soft-phone VOIP to other more focused competitors, and if it stays within the eBay fold, we think further write-downs will be in the offing
Oct 2 '07 -Business- www.alleyinsider.com -skype,ebay,billion
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The community features will be rolled out to the MarketWatch at large site conservatively via a sidebar widget
Oct 2 '07 -Business- www.readwriteweb.com -site,marketwatch,features
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This includes 288,000 gross (60,000 net) acres in the Piceance and Uinta Basins, a vast natural gas play in North America; and a major interest in Titan Uranium, Inc.with 1.44 million acres in the Athabasca and Thelon Basins, the world's most recognized areas for uranium exploration
Oct 2 '07 -Business- www.express-press-release.com -energy,company,natural
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Skype was a $2-$4 billion eBay hail-Mary pass, and it just officially fell incomplete
Oct 2 '07 -Business- www.alleyinsider.com -skype,ebay,billion
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The social networking features of MarketWatch are basic, but solid
Oct 2 '07 -Business- www.readwriteweb.com -site,marketwatch,features
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Wikinvest, the wiki community for stock junkies, is officially launching today, with $2.5 million in a Series A round of funding, led by DCM venture capital firm
Oct 2 '07 -Business- www.mashable.com -information,stock,wikinvest
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The widget will allow any member of the community site to rate, tag, or comment on articles throughout the site
Oct 2 '07 -Business- www.readwriteweb.com -site,marketwatch,features
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Check out a standard MarketWatch profile here
Oct 2 '07 -Business- www.readwriteweb.com -site,marketwatch,features
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The community site adds commenting, tagging, and rating to every article offered by MarketWatch
Oct 2 '07 -Business- www.readwriteweb.com -site,marketwatch,features
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The MarketWatch financial news web site is getting a fresh coat of web 2.0 paint today with the official beta release of the MarketWatch Community
Oct 2 '07 -Business- www.readwriteweb.com -site,marketwatch,features
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It will be interesting to see if these sites can build a cohesive community around their content and increase readership and advertising dollars, which is of course the ultimate goal.
Oct 2 '07 -Business- www.readwriteweb.com -site,marketwatch,features
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With the national average for regular unleaded gas moving to approximately $3.50 a gallon, many are speculating a $100 per barrel price could be looming around the corner
Oct 2 '07 -Business- www.express-press-release.com -energy,company,natural
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MarketWatch is the latest on a growing list of mainstream news web sites that have added features like commenting, rating, or friending in the past 8 months
Oct 2 '07 -Business- www.readwriteweb.com -site,marketwatch,features
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Among the news today: Skype CEO Niklas Zennstrom officially gone (he's been virtually gone for months) eBay will take $1.4 billion asset-impairment charge
Oct 2 '07 -Business- www.alleyinsider.com -skype,ebay,billion
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I imagine online properties like LonelyPlanetTV will fit nicely with BBC’s efforts.
Oct 2 '07 -Business- www.mashable.com -online,planet,lonely
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The Skype acquisition never made sense strategically, and one reason Skype has struggled, we think, is that it is just a distraction to eBay (which needs desperately to focus on its core commerce business)
Oct 2 '07 -Business- www.alleyinsider.com -skype,ebay,billion
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In early tests, 47% of users made a stock pick, while 21% commented on stories
Oct 2 '07 -Business- www.readwriteweb.com -site,marketwatch,features
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"In beta we've experienced increases in user loyalty, satisfaction and length of visits," said Jim Bernard, general manager of MarketWatch
Oct 2 '07 -Business- www.readwriteweb.com -site,marketwatch,features
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Other new features will only be available via the dedicated community area
Oct 2 '07 -Business- www.readwriteweb.com -site,marketwatch,features
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Befriending someone lets you keep track of their activity stream on the site -- picks, comments, recommendations (article ratings), all of which can also be subscribed to via RSS.It would be nice if CBS allowed users to communicate with each other more directly to do things like discuss investment strategies or debate the latest Wall Street news
Oct 2 '07 -Business- www.readwriteweb.com -site,marketwatch,features
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Establish yourself as an authority by providing useful information to other users
Oct 2 '07 -Business- www.mashable.com -information,stock,wikinvest
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The bookmarking tool is helpful, and Wikinvest has incorporated a recommendation engine for bookmarks that may be of interest to you
Oct 2 '07 -Business- www.mashable.com -information,stock,wikinvest
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One thing is clear: the company wants to diversify its reliance on the handset business and move into software and services, where its brand positioning can really help
Oct 2 '07 -Business- www.gigaom.com -nokia,based,services
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Vice-President, Investments, Sentry Select Capital Corp, www.sentryselect.com About our Energy Portals: www.OilandGasStockNews.com and www.NaturalGasStocks.com, portals within the InvestorIdeas.com® content umbrella, do not make recommendations, but feature industry and stock news, exclusive articles and financial columnists, audio interviews and Pod casts, investor conferences, Blog’s, and a directory of stocks in the energy sector
Oct 2 '07 -Business- www.express-press-release.com -energy,company,natural
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InvestorIdeas.com Conference Presented Tri-Coastal Oil and Gas Ltd
Oct 2 '07 -Business- www.express-press-release.com -energy,company,natural
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Other stock communities include BullPoo and StockPickr.
Oct 2 '07 -Business- www.mashable.com -information,stock,wikinvest
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Users are awarded points based on the success of their picks, and data on the top 10 pickers, the most picked stocks, and the stocks with the most bullish and bearish predictions will be available to site visitors
Oct 2 '07 -Business- www.readwriteweb.com -site,marketwatch,features
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According to some estimates, the number of mobile users accessing maps and related information on their mobile phones is going to grow to about 43 million in 2012 from 4 million in 2007
Oct 2 '07 -Business- www.gigaom.com -nokia,based,services
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Adding social features is the en vogue thing to do at mainstream news properties this year
Oct 2 '07 -Business- www.readwriteweb.com -site,marketwatch,features
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Recent Company Additions Include: Tri-Coastal Oil and Gas Ltd
Oct 2 '07 -Business- www.express-press-release.com -energy,company,natural
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As a Bargain Energy Stock for 2007 Released on: September 30, 2007, 3:10 pm Press Release Author: Haunton Investment Research Inc. Industry: Energy Press Release Summary: Online Oil & Gas Investor Audio Conference, which was held last month, added Stealth Ventures Ltd
Oct 2 '07 -Business- www.express-press-release.com -energy,company,natural
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Nokia (NOK), the Finnish mobile phone giant with nearly a third of the global handset market, has decided to bet big on location-based services (LBS), and is buying Chicago-based digital map company NAVTEQ (NVT) for $8.1 billion
Oct 2 '07 -Business- www.gigaom.com -nokia,based,services
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Nokia had also released Nokia 330, a GPS-based navigation device targeting the European market, and so could find itself competing with Garmin
Oct 2 '07 -Business- www.gigaom.com -nokia,based,services
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Analyst Henry Blodget calls the eBay - Skype merger a failure based on the performance of the deal to date
Oct 2 '07 -Business- www.techcrunch.com -ebay,skype,earnout
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One of the most intriguing new features is the stock picking game, which was actually launched last March as MarketPerception
Oct 2 '07 -Business- www.readwriteweb.com -site,marketwatch,features
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The current focus of the Company's Oregon subsidiary, Methane Energy Corp., is on the exploration of the Coos Bay Basin project, where Methane has a land portfolio that includes more than 118,000 prospective acres
Oct 2 '07 -Business- www.express-press-release.com -energy,company,natural
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In a recent chat, Google (GOOG) vice president Marissa Mayer told us that Google Maps usage soared after the introduction of the iPhone.
Oct 2 '07 -Business- www.gigaom.com -nokia,based,services
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So far, the new community features are paying off in terms of upping user engagement with the site, according to MarketWatch
Oct 2 '07 -Business- www.readwriteweb.com -site,marketwatch,features
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The site also ties in standard social network features, such as bios, avatars, and friends lists
Oct 2 '07 -Business- www.readwriteweb.com -site,marketwatch,features
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Nokia also has a deal with Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Trimble
Oct 2 '07 -Business- www.gigaom.com -nokia,based,services
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The deal may have some negative ramifications for guys like Garmin, a NAVTEQ customer, but it is too early to say what Nokia’s strategy will be
Oct 2 '07 -Business- www.gigaom.com -nokia,based,services
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Stealth Ventures currently operates in two broad geographic areas and is focused on two types of strategic plays: CBM in Nova Scotia and Shale (shallow) Gas in Alberta and Saskatchewan
Oct 2 '07 -Business- www.express-press-release.com -energy,company,natural
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(AMEX: DEJ) is a micro cap Canadian company focused on oil & gas exploration and production with a significant investment in uranium discovery
Oct 2 '07 -Business- www.express-press-release.com -energy,company,natural

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