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Zagat In NYC Cab

»  Has Zagat moved too slowly to create its online brand, giving sites like Yelp and Chowhound an openingt? [NY Post]

»  Classicaltv.com is betting $10 million that people will want to watch its Hulu-like library of opera, dance and classical concerts online. [LA Times]

»  Online Fantasy Football has created a cottage industry of related sites, from trophy vendors to lawyers settling league disputes. [Time]

»  Gmail’s outages could prove costly to Google (NSDQ: GOOG) if businesses shy away from using its Apps Cloud. [MacWorld]

»  Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) opposing Google’s settlement with the Authors Guild is nothing but breathtaking “hypocrisy,” the Guild says. [NY Times]

»  To prevent future challenges to Linux from Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) (or “patent trolls”), the Open Invention Network — a group consisting of IBM, Cisco (NSDQ: CSCO) and HP — is buying up patents formerly owned by MSFT and used in the OS. [BizJournals]

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