paidContent Quick Hits 02.12.2010

Flickr overlay on Bing Maps Streetside

»  Bing rolled out an app that overlays Flickr photos on Bing Maps Streetside photos. (Don’t worry, it pulls from Flickr’s Creative Commons archive.) [Bing Blog]

»  Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is figuring out a way to give free Kindles to Amazon Prime subscribers without losing that much money. [TechCrunch]

»  European Commission is expected to approve the Microsoft-Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) search deal next week. [Reuters]

»  Blaming falling ad sales, absentee business owners and an ongoing boycott by a group accusing the paper of being overly critical of Israel, The Berkeley Daily Planet is becoming a web-online publication.[NYT]

»  Worried about the effect of computer screens on your vision? It’s really newspapers — and sometimes, e-readers — that may cause eye strain. [Bits]

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