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		<title>The Retreat Of King Twitter</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Tate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With great power comes great responsibility, and with great responsibility comes great headaches. So after years as the hottest, most talked about startup in Silicon Valley, Twitter is ready to relinquish some control of the national conversation.
Step one: Slowly destroy the Suggested User List, a list of Twitter&#8217;s favourite websites which is used to populate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bloomberg Buys BusinessWeek</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 20:37:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gabriel Snyder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BusinessWeek fire sale: Bloomberg pays less than $US5 million cash, plus debt and gulp severance.
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		<title>Selling Your Tweets To The Enemy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Tate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tech bloggers are in a tizzy over the prospect of tech giants Google or Microsoft getting real-time access to the thoughts of Twitterers, but Valleywag has learned that cash-hungry Twitter is already selling access to its &#8220;firehose&#8221; of data.
Various startups, we&#8217;re told, have already been able to buy access (for thousands of dollars, not the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ebony Searches For A Saviour</title>
		<link>http://www.defamer.com.au/2009/09/ebony-searches-for-a-saviour/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:50:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Cook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Newsweek&#8217;s Johnnie L. Roberts reports that Ebony, which was founded with a $US500 loan in 1942, is in &#8220;big, big trouble&#8221; and shopping itself to Time Warner and Viacom.
The magazine is currently run by Linda Johnson Rice, the daughter of founder John H. Johnson and a friend of the Obama family. Revenue is down 32% [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jealous Geeks In $US2 Billion Wrestling Match Over Skype</title>
		<link>http://www.defamer.com.au/2009/09/jealous-geeks-in-2-billion-wrestling-match-over-skype/</link>
		<comments>http://www.defamer.com.au/2009/09/jealous-geeks-in-2-billion-wrestling-match-over-skype/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:22:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Tate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How did a group of private investors snag Skype for $US2 billion+ when big public corporations like Google were too scared to bid, thanks to lawsuits? With stolen computer nerd sorcery, allegedly.
Skype founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennstrom (pictured) appeared to have it made before the computer wizardly was allegedly stolen. They had eBay, to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twitter&#8217;s Journey To $1 Billion</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:40:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Tate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twitter is poised to close a $US50 million funding round that values the microblogging startup at a staggering $US1 billion, according to TechCrunch and AllThingsD. Since closing its last venture round in February, the startup&#8217;s value has grown fourfold.
Grown, that is, in the eyes of Silicon Valley&#8217;s venture capitalists, slaves to the technology fashions for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How A &#8216;Made&#8217; Startup Was Clipped</title>
		<link>http://www.defamer.com.au/2009/08/how-a-made-startup-was-clipped/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:33:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Tate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two years ago, music service iLike appeared to be set: Its CEO said it was &#8220;made&#8221;, its investor mused it could be a &#8220;billion-dollar winner&#8221; and the press was enthralled. Now the poster child is a cautionary tale.
iLike became something of an icon for a certain class of startup: Built on social networks, fast-growing, unprofitable, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Onion Sale Announcement Monday?</title>
		<link>http://www.defamer.com.au/2009/07/onion-sale-announcement-monday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:43:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Tate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, we heard the Onion was in talks to sell to a large media company; now we&#8217;re told there&#8217;s some sort of announcement or internal meeting scheduled Monday in relation to the rumoured buyout.
A tipster in contact with the company says employees have been told the company will provide them with more information [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Wants To Work For Nikki Finke?</title>
		<link>http://www.defamer.com.au/2009/06/who-wants-to-work-for-nikki-finke/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:27:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Cook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nikke Finke has sold her web site, Deadline Hollywood Daily, to Jay Penske&#8217;s Mail.com, and will be hiring a reporter in New York to expand the site&#8217;s coverage. So get those résumés ready, kids.
The sale amount hasn&#8217;t been disclosed. Penske, the son of car-racer-businessman Roger Penske, fancies himself an emerging new-media mogul&#8212;his company MMC recently [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oh Don&#8217;t Worry, Dave Letterman Will Be Here For A While Too</title>
		<link>http://www.defamer.com.au/2009/06/oh-dont-worry-dave-letterman-will-be-here-for-a-while-too/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:28:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Lawson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While everyone is busy fretting and fussing over Conan O&#8217;Brien&#8217;s freshman Tonight Show run, his steady-as-she-goes CBS competitor, David Letterman, has been quietly inking a deal to stay on the air through 2012. With, sigh, a bit of a pay-cut.
Letterman&#8217;s contract was originally through 2010, but the new deal will both extend his contract by [...]]]></description>
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