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Verizon, for the first time gave a clear outline of its FiOS (fiber to the home) plans, telling investors that the company’s big fiber network upgrade is going to cost a total of $18 billion, At present the cost to pass a home is about $933 but the company wants to bring it down [...]

As Dick Parsons, the CEO of Time-Warner recently reflected, Murdoch’s acquisition of MySpace “appears to have been a masterstroke”. Well… good to know that he is taking a similar positive view of the deal as me. My positive outlook reflected my high enthusiasm about social networking and social media in general, which, as [...]

Yahoo has bought Jumpcut, a Flash-based online video editing site, for an undisclosed sum, the companies announced this morning. With the purchase, Yahoo gains another key buzzword for its web 2.0 acquisition porfolio: mashups.
This was a small purchase, and it’s interesting that didn’t come from Yahoo’s internal development efforts. Yahoo had, however, worked on its [...]

As blogged a couple weeks ago, the Nintendo Wii will support Web browsing via Opera, with Nintendo’s Perrin Kaplan suggesting that users would “download an Opera browser using Wii points and surf the web”; since then, the story’s gotten even sweeter. The Norway firm behind Opera just announced that their browser will [...]

Updated: Ning, a Palo Alto, California based start up that has made irregular appearances on this blog, is one of the most enigmatic start-ups in the valley. Ning is close to announcing new features, including video and photo sharing services, and a new business model, that would outline company’s plans.

Google Talk has new friends on Wall Street. JP Morgan, the bulge bracket bank’s electronic client solutions (ECS) has introduced a new IM based service called AlgoAlerts, that provides charts and real time trading information. All you need is AIM, Bloomberg, and yes, Google Talk. via Ana Yang @ Planet Jabber.