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LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman Aims To Accelerate England's Startup Scene, Bomb Scare Be Damned

The LinkedIn cofounder takes 30 Silicon Valley executives and investors to Britain to give innovations lessons to Europe's future entrepreneurs. One improvised lesson: when a bomb threat disrupts your creative session, head to the pub to network. READ»

MySpace Buying iMeem: A Plan to Beat Spotify?

There are rumors abounding that MySpace is in advanced stages of trying to social-network music system iMeem, and they set us thinking. Looking at Facebook's tie-up with Lala, and even MySpace's with iLike, is this all to outsmart ...READ»

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MSN May Get MySpace Music Service to Rival Google's

Microsoft is talking to MySpace about a music partnership, according to The Wall Street Journal. The deal may mean a leap-frog in popularity for MSN's music portal. MySpace's music site is second only to AOL's with 27 million ...READ»

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My Secret Love for Rhapsody

I exist mostly in an Apple ecosystem: I work on a Mac, call on an iPhone, and work out with a Shuffle. And yet, here I am, spending more and more time on Rhapsody. Rhapsody, Real's subscription-based music service, is my tech life's ...READ»

Ffwd to Bring Order to the World of Online Video

Patrick KoppulaCEO Ffwd> San Francisco, California Patrick Koppula, 34, who cofounded the popular music-recommendation site iLike, started Ffwd (pronounced fast forward) to bring order to the world of online video. "TV has ...READ»

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Tech Watch: Music on Facebook; Bill Gates's Rumored Think Tank; Amazon's Q3 Earnings Bad, But Good

Facebook may launch music service to rival MySpace's; Bill Gates working on a Think Tank; and Amazon posts earnings just short of Q3 targets.READ»