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Blogging and bringing home the bacon - July 18, 2008

As many as 3,000 women are at this year's BlogHer Conference to talk about their lives, businesses, and blogs; and in some cases, they're all one and the same.
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Why did investors freak out about Google - July 18, 2008

Three culprits conspired to hurt Google's stock: interest income, caution about the economy, and Google's overshooting the mark on screening out low-quality ads.
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Mom continues to chase Prince over 'fair use' - July 18, 2008

Prince accused Stephanie Lenz of violating his copyright in a YouTube video of her child. His label has backed down, and now it's Lenz suing the artist for violating her rights.
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Google acquires ad unit of Russia's Rambler - July 18, 2008

Company is buying its way into the accounts of more than 40,000 Russian advertisers and signed a search and advertising pact with Rambler.
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Yahoo gives prime Net real estate to Icahn-bashing site - July 18, 2008

Internet pioneer has devoted a lot of precious pixels on yahoo.com site to its fight with Carl Icahn over control of the company.
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Listen to the 2600 hacker conference - July 18, 2008

Featured links from the CNET Blog Network Listen to the 2600 hacker conference--If you can't attend The Last HOPE conference, you can tune in over the Internet. AMD, Intel Centrino 2 make strange bedfellows--Advanced Micro Devices is making gains at Hewlett-Packard, even in Centrino 2 notebooks. Comcast customers: Are your e-mails going missing--Peter Glaskowsky reports on a surprising problem: the Internet addresses of Comcast customers are associated with spam and listed on.
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Wikimedia Foundation edits its board of trustees - July 18, 2008

Effective immediately, longtime Wikipedia community member Michael Snow will take over as chairman of the board from previous head Florence Devouard.
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Once-hyped PodTech sold at a bargain - July 18, 2008

Its woes were hardly private, so it's not like anyone didn't see this coming: The podcast start-up has been acquired, with reports placing the price at around $500,000.
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Video: The swirling, surreal world of Obscura Digital - July 18, 2008

CNET News' multimedia team visits the San Francisco studio of Obscura Digital, a company that aims to push the boundaries of digital marketing and advertising.
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Interview: Katy Perry is no tech ingenue - July 18, 2008

At 23, the pop singer cut her teeth on MySpace, and her song "I Kissed a Girl" is a hit on iTunes. Just don't look for her to leave her label, a la Radiohead or Trent Reznor.
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