• Breaking: Odeo Acquired By SonicMountain
  “New York based SonicMountain, a new startup, has acquired Evan Williams’ Odeo. The announcement will come sometime tomorrow. The price is not being disclosed but is in excess of $1 million, and the deal was all cash.”
  (tags: Podcasting services Acquisitions Business)
• Where have all the viewers gone? - CNN.com
  “In TV’s worst spring in recent memory, a startling number of Americans drifted away from television the past two months”
  (tags: tv video trends media statistics Entertainment Advertising)
• Sun Adopts OpenID, supports URL-based digital identity
  “Sun has announced that it is adopting OpenID, which provides user-centric, decentralized, URL-based digital identity.”
  (tags: OpenID identity Sun webservices architecture)
• Microsoft buys stake in CareerBuilder | CNET News.com
  Microsoft has bought a minority equity stake in job search site CareerBuilder.com
  (tags: Microsoft Acquisitions Business Employment)
• eBay May Buy StumbleUpon For $75 Million
  EBay Seeks to Add StumbleUpon to Portfolio from the Wall Street Journal brings back the rumors that eBay will be purchasing StumbleUpon.
  (tags: ebay Acquisitions Business socialsoftware)
• Yahoo To Close Yahoo Auctions
  “Yahoo has announced that they will be closing Yahoo Auctions in the United States and Canada as of June 16, 2007.”
  (tags: Yahoo auctions online)
• paidContent.org: The Economics of Content - Online Video Service Joost Gets Whopping $45 Million Funding; Investors Include CBS & Viacom
  “Joost has raised a big round of funding: $45 million. The round included Sequioa Capital, Index Ventures, Li Ka-shing, the Hong Kong tycoon, and CBS…all have taken “small minority” stakes in the start-up’
  (tags: video VC tv media P2P)

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