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Facebook calls on members to flag organ donor status

CHICAGO (Reuters) – Tired of the long wait for a new kidney, Michael Shelling, a 50-year-old video game marketing consultant based in San Diego, decided to take a more active role in the search. About three months ago, he decided to tap into his social network by setting up a Facebook page to get the word out to his friends, and their friends, that he needs a new kidney and, by the way, his blood type is O. The search may have paid off

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YouTube covets TV gold with new channels

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The cramped third-floor studio where a scarf-wearing puppet is being filmed feels more like the hive of an Internet startup than the set of a video production. Squatting behind a table on one end of the room, the show’s director does double-duty as puppeteer, while colleagues outside the camera’s field of view toil on Mac computers.

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Subscriber data from Internet service providers

Subscriber figures and other data from selected Internet service providers:

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ICANN to notify domain applicants of data breaches

LONDON (Reuters) – Organizations taking part in the most ambitious expansion of the Internet so far will find out next week whether their applications for new domain names could have been viewed by competitors as a result of a software bug. The U.S. non-profit Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which operates the Internet’s naming system, has been inviting Organizations to apply to own and run their own domains, for example .apple, .nyc or .gay, instead of entrusting them to the operators of .com, .org and others.

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Instant View: Amazon trounces Street targets, shares soar

(Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc reported quarterly earnings that beat Wall Street’s most bullish expectations after the world’s largest Internet retailer brought costs under control, sending its shares almost 10 percent higher. COMMENTARY: RONALD JOSEY, ANALYST, THINKEQUITY “What jumped out to me was the gross profit, growth as well as their overall operating income margins of 3 percent relative to where expectations were. Net, net is: a much better topline than we were expecting and a much, much better bottomline

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Amazon wins some skeptics over, shares surge

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc’s stellar quarterly results are helping convince skeptics on Wall Street that a bout of intense spending is beginning to pay off for an Internet retailer trying to transform itself into a technology company. Shares of Amazon leapt 16 percent on Friday, after it reported first-quarter earnings and margins late on Thursday that were well above investors’ most bullish expectations. The gains tacked on some $10 billion in market value and marked its biggest single-day gain since October of 2009.

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Groupon gets new "Goods" chief from eBay: memo

(Reuters) – Groupon Inc has hired another former eBay Inc executive to head its discount retailing arm Groupon Goods starting Monday, according to an internal email obtained by Reuters on Friday. The online coupon company named Faisal Masud to head the unit

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China Web giants promise to fight "rumors": Xinhua

BEIJING (Reuters) – Three of China’s largest Internet companies have promised the government they will take steps to banish online rumors, state media said on Tuesday, as the ruling Communist Party fights jitters over a tricky leadership transition. A dispatch by the official Xinhua news agency made no mention of rumors of a foiled coup in Beijing that spread on the Internet in past weeks, after the abrupt ousting of Bo Xilai, a contender for a spot in the new central leadership to be unveiled at a party congress later this year. …

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CEO sketches out new Yahoo, vows business refocus

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Yahoo Inc CEO Scott Thompson unveiled details of how the struggling Internet company will be reorganized, addressing employees just days after unveiling the deepest round of job cuts in years. Thompson, who took over last year from the brash and occasionally foul-mouthed Carol Bartz, said in an internal memo on Tuesday that the company would be organized along three core divisions, effective May 1

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Webby Awards voting opens April 10, winners announced May 1

The 16th annual Webby Awards, “the Internet’s highest honor” according to the New York Times, announced this week that nominees will be revealed April 10 and comedian and actor Patton Oswalt (Young Adult, Ratatouille) will host the ceremony and hand out the spring-like trophy on May 21.

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