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NEW YORK — Comcast Corp. on Tuesday acknowledged “delaying” some subscriber Internet traffic, but said any roadblocks it puts up are temporary and intended to improve surfing for other users.

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The Accelerator initiative of the high-tech inventions conference aims to turn the annual brain-fest into a year-round network of social activism

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The newly announced User Generated Content Principles, backed by several media companies, exhorts websites to filter content while paying lip service to fair use.

CBS, Disney, Fox, NBC, and Viacom are among those boosting User Generated Content Principles, a set of guidelines for sharing content online without violating anyone’s copyrights. Sharing through a service like YouTube [...]

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Surviving a market bust — real estate or otherwise — takes fortitude. The first rule is don’t panic. Every downturn has an upside. So say Chad Parks, whose startup company outlasted the 2001 dot-com bust, and David Decker, author of “Cash In on the Coming Real Estate Crash.” Their tips:

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The $1.43 billion charge eBay disclosed earlier this month had its predicted effect on their third quarter bottom line. Take that away, and eBay fared well.
With Skype and other charges, eBay suffered a $936 million net loss. But investors bid eBay up to $40.60 before the announcement came after the market closed, likely expecting a [...]

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First the good news. Pay per click, as it has been perfected by Google, is unarguably the Web’s highest business achievement to date. Google has become an international corporate icon worth more than some of the most famous name brands of our generation like Disney, McDonalds and Hertz.
                              Pay Per Click Party Over?
                                                                           Pay Per Click [...]

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I know this is old, but I still find it humorous here it is.

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Internet refrigerators were a joke a few years ago, but RFID startup Blue Vector Systems says that it’s finding real customers for them. The concept is similar to the vision of household appliances that automatically reorder groceries, only aimed at enterprise supply chains instead of home kitchens.

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NOVATO — E-mail, Web sites and automated phone messaging aside, nothing beats the power of a live human voice when it comes to sales and service.

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Heather Chan, 24, was at a barbecue recently when the mother of a friend brought out a slab of green Jell-O filled with chunks of vegetables. It was a moment that begged to be broadcast. “I thought, ‘Gross – I have to share this with everyone else,’ ” said…

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