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VMware Snags SpringSource for $420M

Virtualization software maker picks up developer of software tools used to program in Java. For VCs, the SpringSource deal marks a hefty return on the roughly $46 million pumped into the 5-year-old startup.
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Sprint to Lease More Network Capacity

Facing a prolonged decline in its consumer business, mobile carrier is looking to boost its sale of network access to device makers such as Amazon and Garmin.
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Amazon Enters Used Games Market

Amazon has its eyes on GameStop’s cut of its successful trade-in business model.
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Amazon Offers Casual Games

Internet retail giant makes foray into casual games downloads in effort to grab some action from the hot business segment.
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Online Retailers Feel the Pain, Too

Consumer spending on the Internet only grew 1 percent in October, showing the worst growth since 2001, according to comScore.
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Amazon Enters Content Delivery Business

Online retailer continues to sell services based on its internal network of servers and data centers. This time it plans to undercut existing content delivery players.
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Yahoo Enters The Cloud Via Zimbra

Beleaguered search pioneer becomes latest in a growing list of tech giants to jump on the cloud computing trend.
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Oprah Boosts Amazon's Kindle as "Amazing"

Will TV host's endorsement give e-books the push they need?
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Amazon Delivers Bleak Retail Forecast

Amazon, the world leading online retailer, sees its stock plunge after it announces full-year 2008 sales forecast reduced by $1 billion.
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Shazam Hears Android Calling

Shazam, the mobile music discovery company popularized by Apple's iPhone, announces its app for Android-based smartphones.
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BitTorrent Downloads Funding

File-sharing startup snags $17 million as it forges deal to give game developers peer-to-peer distribution of titles in move toward more legitimate forms of downloads.
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Amazon Flicks On Video Service

Internet retail giant makes its video-on-demand service available to the general public.
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Global Tech Briefs: Weather, Fines, Diamonds

A brief summary of technology news around the globe.
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Yahoo Cloud Gazes

Beleaguered search pioneer announces a series of realignment maneuvers and boosts its cloud computing initiatives.
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Napster Ready for iTunes Rumble

Music service says its DRM-free MP3 store will trigger a massive exodus of iTunes users to Napster, but expert says Apple should worry more about Nokia.
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Amazon Margins Squeezed; Shares Skid

Online retail giant posts decline in profit margins as the cost of discounting overshadowed a robust rise in earnings and a bullish 2008 sales view above the Street's expectations. Shares plummet 11 percent.
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Virgin Viewing

Entrepreneur Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic unveils a model of a spaceship, dubbed SpaceShipTwo, he hopes will be the first to take paying passengers into space on a regular basis next year. See also:
Branson Unveils Space Ship
Space 2.0: The Race to Privatize
Riding Virgin on Biofuel
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Amazon Offers Unlocked Sony BMG Tunes

The online retail behemoth has begun offering digital music from Sony BMG Music Entertainment sans copyright protections known as digital rights management.
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Analyst: Labels, Embrace Ad Supported-Music

The music recording industry faced another grim quarter of CD sales, but an analyst suggests embracing ad models to claw back.
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Writer Site Red Room Flicks Switch

A new site for book nerds that counts Pulitzer Prize-winning authors among its members unveils a test version.
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