Fox unit confirms Photobucket, Flektor buys
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Blog: The two online companies have been acquired--not by MySpace, but by the social networking site's parent.
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Verizon has signed an agreement with Revver that would allow the site's content to be made available through the telecommunications company's broadband service by the end of March, and on FiOS TV by the end of this year.
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Blog: Stock photo site continues its push into the digital media market by purchasing the independent music licensing company for $42 million.
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Grokster, one of the best-known P2P services (at least one of the best-known by the RIAA &amp; co), has taken yet another step in its path to make its P2P service to please the record labels by teaming up with a start-up called Mercora to provide an artist
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News Corp.'s  Fox Interactive  Media said on Thursday it has purchased interactive advertising  technology company Strategic Data Corp. to help it improve the  way marketers advertise to its members.
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Facebook Inc., the fast growing  Silicon Valley social networking site, said on Thursday it has  acquired Internet start-up, Parakey, run by two of the  co-creators of the popular Web browser, Mozilla Firefox.
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Apple and News Corp. have signed an agreement to offer Twentieth Century Fox movies for rent through the iTunes Music Store, the Financial Times reported Thursday.Users would be able to download the latest Twentieth Century Fox movies from iTunes and view them for a limited time, the Financial Times reported, citing &quot;a person familiar with the situation.&quot;As part of the agreement, Twentieth Century Fox will use Apple&#39;s FairPlay digital rights management technology in future DVD releases, marking the first time someone other than Apple has used the technology, the report said. Using this technology would allow users to copy movies from a DVD onto an iPod, it said.The deal between Apple and Twentieth Century Fox will &quot;likely&quot; be announced on January 14 at the Macworld conference, the Financial Times said.Besides Twentieth Century Fox, Apple is holding similar talks about online movie rentals and FairPlay with Sony Pictures Entertainment, Paramount and Warner Bros., the Financial Times said.Apple, which saw its share price top $200 for the first time on Wednesday, currently offers some movies from Walt Disney and other studios on iTunes, but these are only available for purchase, not for rent.
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Jupitermedia forges ahead with the purchase of MediaBistro.com.
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Reports of a deal with Fox signal a fresh push from Apple into digital video.
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News Corp.'s  Fox Interactive  Media said on Thursday that it had purchased interactive  advertising technology company Strategic Data Corp. to help it  improve the way marketers advertise to its members.
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Also: USPS service kiosks taking pictures of customers. [News.com Extra]
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Fox Interactive Media agreed to acquire the photo-storage site weeks after MySpace partly blocked content from Photobucket.
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The parent companies of the four largest US broadcast networks plus cable content giant Viacom joined with MySpace, Microsoft, and online video providers Veoh and Dailymotion in signing a standards and practices document they hope will become the "Television Code" of online copyright protection.
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Facebook, a social-networking site that has become an open development platform, announced Thursday that it purchased startup Parakey for an undisclosed amount. The company, started by Mozilla Firefox cofounders Blake Ross and Joe Hewitt, has been creating products to unify and integrate desktop applications and the Web.
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A photo-sharing Fool considers becoming a shareholder.
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U.S.-based Fox Entertainment Group Inc. (FOX) on Monday joined a group of companies promoting Blu-ray Disc, one of two competing formats for next-generation DVDs...
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NEW YORK (AFX)--Eastman Kodak Tuesday said it agreed to buy the imaging business of National Semiconductor for undisclosed terms. The business develops and makes metal oxide semiconductor image sensor devices.