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		<title>AMEE, Carbon Footprint Calculator, Raises &#8216;Substantial&#8217; Funding (UPDATED)</title>
		<link>http://digital-lifestyles.info/2008/12/11/amee-carbon-footprint-calculator-raises-substantial-funding/</link>
		<comments>http://digital-lifestyles.info/2008/12/11/amee-carbon-footprint-calculator-raises-substantial-funding/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 09:26:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Perry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environmental]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[AMEE, a company that provides Internet-based calculation and storage of the carbon footprints, has received &#8216;substantial&#8217; Series A funding from O&#8217;Reilly Alphatech Ventures (OATV), Union Square Ventures (USV) and The Accelerator Group (TAG). The level of funding hasn&#8217;t been revealed is a &#8220;&#8217;7 figure&#8217; sum (GBP)&#8221;, but sourced from VC fund from the UK and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NDS: Permira To Take It Private</title>
		<link>http://digital-lifestyles.info/2008/08/15/nds-permira-to-take-it-private/</link>
		<comments>http://digital-lifestyles.info/2008/08/15/nds-permira-to-take-it-private/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:40:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Perry</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Copy Protection]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[NDS, a DRM, PVR and interactive TV company, will be taken private, away from its current public listed status. News Corporation currently owns approximately 72% of the equity and a stunning 96% of the voting power of NDS through its ownership of 100% of the outstanding Series B shares. Approximately 67% of the NDS Series [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best Buy / Carphone Warehouse Joint Venture: Best Warehouse</title>
		<link>http://digital-lifestyles.info/2008/05/08/best-buy-carphone-warehouse-joint-venture-best-warehouse/</link>
		<comments>http://digital-lifestyles.info/2008/05/08/best-buy-carphone-warehouse-joint-venture-best-warehouse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 09:08:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Perry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Best Buy, the US consumer electronics retail giant, is intending to buy 50% of Carphone Warehouse&#8217;s retail operation for £1.1 Billion. Best Buy and Carphone Warehouse have known each other for a while, as CW have been selling mobile phones in concessions within Best Buy&#8217;s shops in the US over the last two years. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ZYB Buy Imity, Bluetooth Social Networking Co</title>
		<link>http://digital-lifestyles.info/2008/04/22/zyb-buy-imity-bluetooth-social-networking-co/</link>
		<comments>http://digital-lifestyles.info/2008/04/22/zyb-buy-imity-bluetooth-social-networking-co/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:02:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Perry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cellular]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ZYB, a service that lets you backup your mobile phone contact and access them on the Web, has branched out and made a company purchase. They&#8217;ve bought a Danish mobile social networking company, Imity, for an undisclosed sum. ZYB want it so they can build what they call &#8220;a next-generation solution for mobile-enhanced social networking,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yahoo Takeover News Catchup</title>
		<link>http://digital-lifestyles.info/2008/04/10/yahoo-takeover-news-catchup/</link>
		<comments>http://digital-lifestyles.info/2008/04/10/yahoo-takeover-news-catchup/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:31:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Perry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advertising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The tussle between Yahoo and Microsoft has gone through a couple of extra rounds of late. We thought we&#8217;d bring you up to date with the current state of play. Back in Feb Microsoft offered Yahoo $44Bn. Yahoo said no thanks. Balmer writes to Yahoo again &#8211; Oi! On 5 April, Steve Balmer wrote an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Murdoch Interested In Yahoo?</title>
		<link>http://digital-lifestyles.info/2008/02/14/murdoch-interested-in-yahoo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:21:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Perry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investments]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s being reported that there&#8217;s &#8216;secret&#8217; discussion going on between Rupert Murdoch&#8217;s News Corp and Yahoo, apparently in an attempt to find an alternative route to Microsoft buying it. Some publications are reporting that one of the proposals values MySpace, owned by News Corp, at between $6Bn and $10Bn &#8211; pretty good for the $580 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yahoo To Microsoft: No Thanks, Not Enough Money</title>
		<link>http://digital-lifestyles.info/2008/02/11/yahoo-to-microsoft-no-thanks-not-enough-money/</link>
		<comments>http://digital-lifestyles.info/2008/02/11/yahoo-to-microsoft-no-thanks-not-enough-money/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Perry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Investments]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The next twist in the Microsoft wants Yahoo story has just come to light. Yahoo has filed a Form 8-K with the US SEC saying that after a jolly good think about it, Yahoo has decided that Microsoft&#8217;s unsolicited proposal to purchase them is not in the best interest of Yahoo. Their detailed response was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft:Yahoo Merger: Letter From Microsoft To Yahoo</title>
		<link>http://digital-lifestyles.info/2008/02/01/microsoftyahoo-merger-letter-from-microsoft-to-yahoo/</link>
		<comments>http://digital-lifestyles.info/2008/02/01/microsoftyahoo-merger-letter-from-microsoft-to-yahoo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:33:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Perry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a copy of the letter in full between Steve Balmer and the Chair and CEO of Yahoo, for your delectation. Board of Directors Yahoo! Inc. 701 First Avenue Sunnyvale, CA 94089 Attention: Roy Bostock, Chairman Attention: Jerry Yang, Chief Executive Officer Dear Members of the Board: I am writing on behalf of the Board [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microsoft:Yahoo Merger Officially Floated &#8211; Holy Moly!!!</title>
		<link>http://digital-lifestyles.info/2008/02/01/microsoftyahoo-merger-officially-floated-holy-moly/</link>
		<comments>http://digital-lifestyles.info/2008/02/01/microsoftyahoo-merger-officially-floated-holy-moly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 12:18:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Perry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[H O L D the phone! Microsoft are reporting that they will be making a offer to purchase Yahoo for approx $44.6 billion in cash and stock. This is not a joke, repeat, this is not a joke. It&#8217;s on the Microsoft site! This is one of the most major stories that we have ever [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Macrovision Buying Gemstar-TV Guide</title>
		<link>http://digital-lifestyles.info/2007/12/07/macrovision-buying-gemstar-tv-guide/</link>
		<comments>http://digital-lifestyles.info/2007/12/07/macrovision-buying-gemstar-tv-guide/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 17:52:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Perry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Macrovision, content protection company, has agreed to purchase TV listing company, Gemstar-TV Guide International in a cash and stock transaction with a value of approximately $2.8 billion. The merged companies will have combined &#8220;solution portfolios,&#8221; (you what?!?!) to, in their words, &#8220;enable extensive libraries of commercial and personal protected content to be accessible on numerous [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Activision Blizzard: Vivendi Games And Activision To Merge</title>
		<link>http://digital-lifestyles.info/2007/12/03/activision-blizzard-vivendi-games-and-activision-to-merge/</link>
		<comments>http://digital-lifestyles.info/2007/12/03/activision-blizzard-vivendi-games-and-activision-to-merge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2007 11:46:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Perry</dc:creator>
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		<title>MyFootballClub Announces Team They&#8217;re Buying</title>
		<link>http://digital-lifestyles.info/2007/11/13/myfootballclub-announces-team-theyre-buying/</link>
		<comments>http://digital-lifestyles.info/2007/11/13/myfootballclub-announces-team-theyre-buying/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2007 11:19:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Perry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The UK football club that is being bought by Web site, MyFootballClub has been announced today. MyFootballClub (MyFC) is a revolutionary Web-based idea that will see the decisions of the management of the club &#8211; transfers, player selection and all major decisions &#8211; carried out by the paid-up members of the site &#8211; perhaps one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mydeo/ Best Buy: Investment And Partnership</title>
		<link>http://digital-lifestyles.info/2007/10/30/mydeo-best-buy-investment-and-partnership/</link>
		<comments>http://digital-lifestyles.info/2007/10/30/mydeo-best-buy-investment-and-partnership/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2007 18:26:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Perry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mydeo, a UK company that lets people securely share video clips on the Internet, has today announced a partnership and investment by electronics retailing giant Best Buy. Best Buy sell 40% of all camcorders sold in the US, a major benefit for Mydeo, putting them right in front of the people who will be shooting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dow Jones Board Votes Yes: Murdoch One Step Closer To Ownership</title>
		<link>http://digital-lifestyles.info/2007/07/18/dow-jones-board-votes-yes-murdoch-one-step-closer-to-ownership/</link>
		<comments>http://digital-lifestyles.info/2007/07/18/dow-jones-board-votes-yes-murdoch-one-step-closer-to-ownership/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 09:21:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Perry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's in the balance as to whether Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. will gain control over Dow Jones and the WSJ.]]></description>
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		<title>ChinaCache, Dominant Chinese CDN, Gets $32m Investment</title>
		<link>http://digital-lifestyles.info/2007/06/13/chinacache-dominant-chinese-cdn-gets-32m-investment/</link>
		<comments>http://digital-lifestyles.info/2007/06/13/chinacache-dominant-chinese-cdn-gets-32m-investment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2007 18:07:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Perry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There's gold in them tha caches, bets Western investment funds, as they invest in a Chinese CDN.]]></description>
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		<title>Ericsson Buys Drutt: Gets Into Mobile Content Delivery</title>
		<link>http://digital-lifestyles.info/2007/06/08/ericsson-buys-drutt-gets-into-mobile-content-delivery/</link>
		<comments>http://digital-lifestyles.info/2007/06/08/ericsson-buys-drutt-gets-into-mobile-content-delivery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:16:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon Perry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ericsson has bought 100% of Drutt, a dominant player in providing Mobile Service Delivery Platform&#8217;s (MSDP) that is headquartered in Sweden. This is another purchase by Ericsson who have set themselves up as a provider of complete solutions for mobile operators and content producers who want to have their content distributed over mobile networks. Ericsson [...]]]></description>
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