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Just one day away from MySpace’s announcement about its profiles’ export, social network Facebook reported that a similar feature will be available on the web site over the next few weeks and it shall be launched under the name Facebook Connect. The main differance between the two offers is that while MySpace will open the offer to a select group of sites, Facebook will allow the move of personal profiles to any web site willing to host them. The new profile option was presented by Facebook’s senior platform manager Dave Morin in a post on the web site’s developer blog. Facebook users will...
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When Rupert Murdoch said he isn’t investing in newspapers anymore he really meant it. The media tycoon, major shareholder, chairman and managing director of News Corp, announced he decided to withdraw the bid to purchase Tribune Co's Newsday newspaper, a spokesperson said on Saturday according to The Wall Street Journal. The spokesperson said the move of buying had become "uneconomical." Murdoch’s decision leaves the road wide open for Cablevision Systems Corp to acquire Newsday, a daily Pulitzer Prize winning newspaper that mainly serves Long Island and the New York City borough...
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The Rev. Al Sharpton and dozens of others protesting on the streets of New York City against the acquittal of police officers in the Sean Bell case were arrested Wednesday for disorderly conduct.
Civil rights activist the Rev. Al Sharpton and numerous other people participating in a street protest against the acquittal of three NYPD detectives in the 2006 death of Sean Bell, were arrested Wednesday as they blocked traffic on bridges and tunnels in New York City.
Bell’s fiancée and two of his friends who survived the shooting were arrested along with Sharpton, who called on federal...
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Microsoft Corp, the American multinational computer technology corporation, appealed the record fine of 899 million euros ($1.4 billion) imposed by the European Union nearly two moths ago. The world's largest software producer filed the appeal at the European Court of First Instance in Luxembourg (the second-highest court in the European Union) according to Microsoft spokesman Jesse Verstraete. In a "constructive effort”, Microsoft is attempting to seek clarity from the court, added Verstraete in a statement released via e-mail. The European Commission imposed the fine on Feb. 27...
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Vladimir Putin will have a “key role” in Russia for years as prime minister, new President Dmitry Medvedev declared Thursday, the Associated Press reports. Putin was confirmed as prime minister by 392 of the 448 deputies at an extraordinary session of the lower house of parliament, the State Duma, just one day after Medvedev was inaugurated at a Kremlin ceremony. Medvedev took over the presidency after Vladimir Putin had spent eight years as president. At Thursday’s vote confirming Putin as premier, his protégé Medvedev said, “I think no one has any doubt that our tandem, our cooperation,...
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