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Who Owns What chart tracks the acquisitions of Google, Microsoft, and more

If you like to keep track of your friendly neighborhood media conglomerates, and what smaller companies they have recently swallowed into their great, yawning maw, then you need to download Who Owns What v2.1.

Who Owns What is a printable chart (PDF) that tracks the recent acquisitions of a number of large companies: Yahoo!, Google, Microsoft, AOL, News Corporation, and IAC. Looking at the chart, you'll see that every company seems to have fingers in a lot of pies: everything from travel to search engines to dating sites is represented.

The longest list award goes to, you guessed it, Google.

One caveat: the chart is not completely exhaustive. The creator, Amy Webb of MyDigiMedia, figured that if the chart was complete, there would be no way to print it out. And yes, she does want us to print it out, in order to constantly remind ourselves that "this digital stuff isn't going away."

[Via Digital Inspiration]

Filed under: Business, Internet, Google, Yahoo!, AOL

Google and Yahoo sued for automating email

Google and Yahoo sued for automating emailSeems like the big guys could be getting in a little trouble for violating patents. Among them, AOL, Amazon, Borders, Google, IAC (ASK), and Yahoo have all been accused.

The charges from this IP-related company that stem from a patent infringement make notes about the violating parties implementing systems that 'comprise interpreting electronic messages with rule base and case base knowledge engines'. Whatever that means. The claim does outlay the method as well as steps involved for receiving an electronic message and interpreting the electronic message. We all know this is most likely an effort by said plaintiff to get a little green in their pockets the filthy lawyer way. Especially when the company involved, as well as a slew of other IP-related companies, are associated with the same attorney. And it also just so happens that the same company suing the above companies, has also filed patent lawsuits with Oracle and Sirius Satellite Radio. Some people have guesstimated the settlement amount to be in upwards up six and seven figures.

Filed under: Business, Design, Developer, Internet, Blogging, Web services

Bloglines finally gets a redesign

bloglines redesign

Bloglines has just packed a bunch of new features into its online news feed searching, subscribing to and reading service, and it all begins with a start page.

Bloglines headlines its new feature developments with a personalized start page. This is the page that brings everything together in a quick and easy view with an AJAX interface. There is nothing like starting feed reading off with a view like this to help you distinguish and gravitate towards your top interests first, before they get lost in a sea of unread material. Users can also now drag and drop feeds to add them into a three panel interface. To make things even easier, Bloglines has integrated mouse over previews to get a quick snippet of the content for a more in depth look at the article. Two other views are also available to complement the three panel view, a full view, and quick view mode. The quick view lists out titles for an easy news scan, with the full view listing out full article content.

This new redevelopment comes more than two years after the Bloglines acquisition by IAC interactive, the company that owns the popular ASK search engine. It can be accessed at http://beta.bloglines.com.

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