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Summer is coming to an end (everywhere except San Francisco, where we are about to get some nice weather), and it is time for our end of the season Pier Screening on August 29, 2007.
The theme for this edition is Citizen Journalism and we have put together a panel of speakers who will be [...]

EarthLink (ELNK), the Atlanta-based Internet Service Provider that has been taking it on the chin in the stock market for the past few months, is in for some major bloodletting, perhaps as soon as tomorrow.
It’s been hard to reach some of my easy-to-reach sources; they all seem to have gone to the ground, as [...]

Google Phone has been a subject of many rumors lately. Mark Hopkins, a technology podcaster, says he got the confirmation of the Gphone after talking to an insider Google (GOOG).
He said that the Google (applications) Suite is going to play a huge role in the usability of the GPhone, and the thought process [...]

EXCLUSIVE: We had previously speculated that New York-based Fotolog would be the next one to get acquired. And we were right. It has been acquired by Hi Media, a Paris-based interactive media company for roughly $90 million — a combination of cash and stock, according to well-placed sources. The announcement is likely to be made [...]

* NewTeeVee: Online Video is still too expensive.
* FoundRead: eBay’s mistakes and what founders can learn from them.
* Earth2Tech: Blowing hard, JP Morgan loves Wind Power.
* WebWorkerDaily: Pibb, an online communications aggregator is a bit like forums, part IRC and a wee bit IM. Does it seem too much to you?
* NewTeeVee: From Grand Theft [...]

Taiwan-based Acer has acquired the once high-flying Gateway Computer for a mere $710 million, in what could be the last significant deal in the PC hardware business, reports the Wall Street Journal. Acer also acquired the parent of Packard Bell, thereby becoming the third-largest PC maker in the world, after Dell and Hewlett Packard.
The [...]