• Samsung mulls buying SanDisk

• Samsung Electronics Co., the world's largest producer of flash-memory chips, said Friday it is considering buying U.S. chipmaker SanDisk Corp., but added that a decision has not yet been made.

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• Nokia sees loss in share

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• Before the Bell: Jobs data, Merrill Lynch, Dell, Altria, SanDisk in focus

• U.S. stock market futures extended losses Friday after a bigger-than-expected decline in August nonfarm payrolls and a sharp jump in the unemployment rate, with a downgrade of Merrill Lynch adding to the pessimistic mood.

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• Home foreclosures reach record high

• NEW YORK (Reuters) - Home foreclosures and the rate of homes entering the foreclosure process rose to record highs in the second quarter, the Mortgage Bankers Association said on Friday.

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• Report: Treasury near plan for Fannie and Freddie

• The Treasury Department is close to finalizing plans for beleaguered mortgage buyers Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, according to a report published Friday afternoon.

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• Microsoft tries to reclaim Windows' image

• After years of letting Apple's attack ads go unanswered, the software maker is embarked on a difficult and costly journey of trying to wrest back control of what Windows stands for.

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• Goldman cuts Merrill to sell, sees fresh writedowns

• (Reuters) - Merrill Lynch & Co , battered by more than $40 billion of write-downs tied largely to mortgages, will likely incur fresh write-downs, in addition to those assumed after its recent sale of repackaged debt to Lone Star Funds, said an analyst at Goldman Sachs, who...

• • Reuters - 13h ago
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• Continental introduces $15 fee for 1st checked bag

• NEW YORK (Reuters) - Continental Airlines Inc said on Friday it will charge a $15 service fee for a first checked bag for certain customers who buy economy-class tickets.

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• Text of John McCain's speech

• Here is the prepared text of Sen. John McCain's speech accepting the Republican nomination for president, as released by the party.

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• Google Reigns as World's Most Powerful 10-Year-Old

• When Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google Inc. on Sept. 7, 1998, they had little more than their ingenuity, four computers and an investor's $100,000 bet on their belief that an Internet search engine could change the world. It sounded preposterous 10 years ago, but look...

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• Screenshots Of The New Joost

• So much for Joost's carefully prepared plans to release a browser version of their TV over IP service later this month. News leaked this morning that Joost would be abandoning their year old XUL based desktop client in favor of a browser based service that's more like Hulu and...

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• Joost Killing Off The Desktop Client No One Downloaded

• Not news: Joost will soon release a long-awaited Web-based version of its peer-to-peer TV service that works in a standard browser. Kind of news: Om Malik reports that Joost is going to dump the original desktop client altogether. If true, this is a bit of a surprise because...

• • Silicon Alley Insider - 6h ago
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• Bond Report: Treasurys gain after more jobs lost than forecast

• Treasurys advanced early Friday, sending yields to the lowest since mid-April, after a Labor Department report said the economy shed more jobs than expected in August.

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• Robert Powell: Ten international stocks that will set you up for the long haul

• BOSTON (MarketWatch) -- If it's good enough for Warren Buffett, it should be good enough for you. Or at least it should be if you are looking for an international stock that you can buy and hold for the long term, say from the time you get out of college till you retire.

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• Real Estate Weekly: Number of 'overvalued' housing markets tumbles to just six

• It's harder to get a mortgage. Housing inventory is still high. And the percentage of mortgages now in the foreclosure process hit another record in the second quarter.

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• Y&R Snags Office Depot's Marketing Account

• NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- WPP Group's Y&R, New York, has picked up Office Depot's marketing account following a quiet pitch for the business. The Delray Beach, Fla., retailer began talking to agencies months ago, narrowing the field from about 10 shops down to...

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• National Semi's shares dip on lower profit, sales update

• Shares of National Semiconductor Corp. fall nearly 6% before staging a partial recovery, as investors react to results showing the chipmaker with a lower first-quarter profit and to a weaker-than-expected sales outlook.

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• Nokia Feels The Heat

• The company is losing market share, and investors are losing faith.

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• New York Plans to Sue Student Loan Company

• The attorney general of New York is preparing a lawsuit against a student loan company, Goal Financial, charging that the lender broke state and federal laws by luring borrowers with iPods, cash and other gifts and that it misled consumers about loan terms and benefits, The New...

• • DealBook - New York Times - 11h ago
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• Pimco appoints El-Erian as CEO

• (Reuters) - Pacific Investment Management Co, the manager of the world's biggest bond fund, named Mohamed El-Erian as its chief executive to replace Bill Thompson, who will retire at the end of the year.

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• Dell plans to sell computer factories: report

• (Reuters) - Dell Inc is trying to sell computer factories around the world in efforts to cut cost and improve profitability, the Wall Street Journal said.

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• Look Out Below!-But Yahoo's Battered Stock Isn't the Only Weak One in Tech [BoomTown]

• It is absolutely worrisome that Yahoo's share price continued its downward swirl today, closing at a five-year low today at $17.75. The downward drift far from the it-can't-drop-below-$20 barrier makes it clear that Wall Street is valuing the company at close to what it could...

• • AllThingsD - 22h ago
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• Intel: Screw Everything, We're Doing Eight Cores [Digital Daily]

• If two cores make a good chip and four cores make a better one, then, obviously, six cores make the best damn chip on the market. Which is what analysts believe Intel's new six-core Xeon processor X7460 will be when it debuts Sept. 15. With six cores and a leviathan 16MB L3...

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• Forget "The Conquistador": When Is Microsoft Going to Drop the Other Shoe on Its Conquering Web Strategy? [BoomTown]

• There will be a lot of different reactions to the first of Microsoft's newest series of commercials, featuring Founder Bill Gates playing straight man to comic Jerry Seinfeld. Set up as a discount shoe-buying skit, Seinfeld helps Gates purchase a pair called "The Conquistador,"...

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• QOTD [Digital Daily]

• QOTD I am a Facebook ‘friend’ of Ballmer’s.” – Netscape founder Marc Andreessen on his new-found friendship with Microsoft’s CEO

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• Course, You Could Just Shut the Company Down and Give the Money Back to the Shareholders [Digital Daily]

• When Dell missed Wall Street's profit expectations last week, the company's leadership spoke little about its plans to improve profitability, saying only that there is "much more work to do." Well, turns out that “much more work to do” is actually a euphemism for “we still have...

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• Christian the Lion Online Videos to Leap to the Multiplex? [BoomTown]

• Since Sony Pictures is apparently wants to make a movie from the story of the two men who bought a lion from London's Harrods department store, it's a good time to replay one of the many online videos of their reunion with him in a year after they had released him into the wild...

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• Google's Picasa Moves Onto Flickr's Turf: Adds Ways To Explore Interesting Public Photos

• On the heels of a major upgrade earlier this week that added facial recognition features to its Picasa photo management service, Google added a new Explore page today that shows off the most popular public photos uploaded by members. In addition to the featured photos, shown in...

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• EIC Squared: Chrome, iPods and Dell + salesforce.com

• On this week's EIC Squared podcast CNET's Dan Farber and ZDNet's Larry Dignan discuss Google's latest rocket launch, the Chrome browser, as well as Apple's iPod event next week and a Dell-Salesforce.com union.

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• Crowdsourcing Book Excerpt: The Canary in the Coal Mine

• First identified by journalist Jeff Howe in a June 2006 Wired magazine article, "crowdsourcing" describes the process by which the power of the many can be leveraged to accomplish feats that were once the province of the specialized few. Howe reveals that the crowd is more...

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• Dell Trades Factories For Money

• The computer manufacturer is selling factories to cut costs and pad its bottom line.

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• Student Loans Under Fire

• The hits keep coming for the college loan industry.

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• Zimmer Shows Some Spine

• The maker of hip replacement materials is acquiring Abbott Laboratories' spinal division for a large sum.

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• Samsung Takes Off The Gloves

• The memory chipmaker may purchase SanDisk to take market share away from Toshiba.

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• College Loan Licks Its Wounds

• The company will reportedly stop disbursing student loans after losing its funding.

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• Samsung Swoons For SanDisk

• The South Korean maker of memory chips admitted it might buy the U.S. flash memory specialist.

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• Barrick Finds Cadence Irresistible

• The gold miner scooped up nearly all of the oil and gas company's shares.

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• Titan Tires Dodges Speed Bumps

• The company hikes the price of its tires to combat soaring product costs.

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• Capitol Report: Job report ends lingering doubts of recession for some

• The August employment report has removed any lingering doubt on the part of many economists that the economy will eventually slide into recession.

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• If ESPN Can Replay Games With Madden '09, Let Us Do It Too

• In an effort to become more relevant to a new generation of football fans, this Sunday on "NFL Countdown," ESPN anchors will interact with simulated football players created using EA's video game technology. Using Madden '09, ESPN's football analysts can model different...

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• So Much Hate For Microsoft's Seinfeld/Gates Buddy Ad

• I wasn't going to comment on Microsoft's new ad campaign featuring Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates buddying around, but the response among the press and bloggers is almost universally negative -- often in extreme ways, and I don't get why there's such a virulent negative reaction. ...

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• Why I passed on Microsoft's 10th anniversary

• And I'm not going to make a big deal about Google's 10th, either. But Google at 20? Now that will be something to behold.

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• MyAWOL Becomes LP33.TV, Launches IMDB For Musicians

• Last July I wrote about MyAWOL, a web-centric music label looking to compete with traditional labels, which are becoming increasingly less relevant as artists turn to digital distribution methods to gain exposure. While the site has the potential to break some new ground in the...

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• Tatango Opens Their Group SMS Service To The Public

• Tatango, the ad-supported group SMS service previously known as networkText, spent the last few months in a private beta following a functional and visual overhaul and a round of funding by Bellingham Angel Organization. Now everyone is free to get in on the group texting good...

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• Prisons Upset That Prisoners Don't Get Discounts On Digital TV Converters

• As you probably have heard, the US will be shutting down analog TV broadcasts early next year, as the conversion to digital is complete. For most TV watchers, this won't matter one bit. For anyone who watches TV via cable or satellite TV, the change means nothing. It only...

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• From The Inbox: John S. Wants Us To Start Acting Like Journalists

• From: "John S." Date: September 5, 2008 11:43:36 AM PDT To: tips@techcrunch.com Subject: Celebrity Dating Network How is it that Techcrunch will do countless stories on every idiotic widget created by countless 19 year olds who manage to get their uncles at some VC to fund it...

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• Track Hurricanes On Stormpulse

• Wonder where Hurricane Ike will hit or when Tropical Storm Hanna will pass? Hurricane season has lots of people glued to the Weather Channel to catch the latest updates on developing storms. But why wait for the weatherman to tell you what is going on when you can check for...

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• Gas prices fall: Five days and counting

• Gasoline prices eased for the fifth straight day, even as Tropical Storm Hanna bears down on the Carolinas, according to a nationwide survey of gas station credit card swipes.

• • CNNMoney - 12h ago
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• A flier strikes back: Sues over cancellation

• On Feb. 21, 2008, Mitchell Berns heard every flier's two least favorite words: weather related. Citing snow, Delta Airlines was canceling his flight from Las Vegas to New York City and rescheduling him for a redeye connecting in Boston. With 47% of all delays so far in 2008...

• • CNNMoney - 12h ago
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• Startup launches spectrum marketplace

• A new company called Spectrum Bridge has launched a Web site for buying and selling wireless spectrum licenses.

• • CNET News - 1h ago
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