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Skype Phone Introduced Internationally

Voice over Internet Protocol provider Skype is developing its own software platform to launch a cell phone built with 3 Mobile, a wireless provider in Europe, Asia and Australia.

Wal-Mart Gets Into The Broadband Business

Wal-Mart plans to begin reselling satellite based broadband from Hughes Communications.

The Graphic Attack On Google

Bellbottoms, the Beetle, even lava lamps - the visual appeal of some things seems to operate in a sort of cyclical nature.  And as search engines start to jazz up their appearances, some see a return to past (read: pre-Google) trends.

Apple Looks Into The Spectrum

The upcoming 700 MHz spectrum auction is heating up as Apple is the latest rumored to be interested in joining Google, DirecTV, and eBay in bidding on a piece of the band currently used by broadcast television.

Google Putting The Squeeze On VCs

Google's not making as many friends as it used to. The latest group to sour a bit on the company are venture capitalists. Of course, business isn't really about making friends, but that hasn't stopped VCs from complaining that Google swallowing up prime acquisitions.

Facebook Success Doesn't Equal LinkedIn Death

I don't know if it's a human nature thing or a Western civilization thing, but it seems a lot of the time we focus on winners, damn the rest, and assume that when one supplants the other the other drones on eternally in obscurity rather than the two coexisting. We do this even though Coke and Pepsi, McDonald's and Burger King, Wal-Mart and Target all coexist in free market bliss.

"Hyperlocal" News Sites Take A Hit

A lot of big companies - from Google to CNN - are interested in “going local,” and, to be honest, it seems that those companies have the money to do whatever they want.  But “going local” isn’t easy; Backfence.com, which focused on a number of smaller communities, is going out of business.

DC To Webcasters: Drop Dead

Whatever happens with web radio from this point forward will depend on whatever concessions webcasters can wrest from SoundExchange and the record labels that back it.

Yahoo's Semel Takes His Lumps From Shareholders

It's easy to imagine Yahoo chief Terry Semel went home limping after yesterday's meeting with shareholders, and promptly crawled inside a bottle of fermented comfort. Shareholders weren't happy with his performance, and they told him so.

Salesforce Launches Startup Incubator

Salesforce launched an incubator for startups.  It is a similar proposition to the Socialtext Coworking space, but has a cost for the startup and is structured as a partnership program.  A BusinessWeek article interv