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Memo to private equity investors: Get your checkbooks ready, for VeriSign (VRSN) might have some businesses to put on the block.
VeriSign, the Mountain View, Calif.-based domain name registry manager, is in the middle of a major restructuring under the aegis of its new chief executive, William Roper Jr., who replaced Stratton Sclavos back in [...]

The new episode of The GigaOM Show is up. In addition to our hitlines, we talk with executives from web analytics companies, Quantcast and Hitwise, and try to understand the complexities of web analytics and why it is hard to get a handle on who is the top site. We discuss, how the new distributed [...]

Earth2Tech: Ways to reduce your green guilt as you travel this Labor Day Weekend.
NewTeeVee: The best of the video picks form Burning Man — for those that couldn’t make to the playa this year.
Found/Read: Seven hiring tips for startups.

Web Worker Daily: How to do away with the time wasters and be left with only lean, [...]

There is a game of corporate chicken going on. Hours after NBC decided that it was going to pull its shows from the iTunes store at the end of this year, Apple (AAPL) trumped them and will not sell shows from the upcoming TV season on iTunes, the largest online music and video store.
Apple [...]

While Google’s (GOOG) YouTube continues to gain market share and increase its lead in the Web video market, funding to its competitors continues to flow
unabated. Yesterday, Dailymotion raised $34 million, following on the heels of Veoh ($26 million) and MetaCafe ($30 million.)
These three companies alone have raised a total of $125 million — a [...]

Joost just released version 0.12.0 of its P2P TV client this week. The new releases offers end users a bunch of bug fixes, but developers get a special treat: Joost has opened up its API and now makes it possible to develop third-party widgets that can be installed within the client. Continue Reading.