In the report, TechCrunch cites a source who says that eBay is hoping to use Deutsche Bank to land the “right buyer,” though the asking price is unknown and uncertainty exists whether the online retailing giant will be able to get what it paid, or will have to run the proverbial blue light special.

eBay’s tie-up [...]

“In 1960, New York City alone had eight daily newspapers. Every significant daily had offices around the world, and print journalists were the rock stars of their day,” Hamm said. “Today we see Arnold Schwarzenegger announcing his California gubernatorial candidacy on Leno, and Barack Obama announcing his vice presidential candidate, Joe Biden, by text message.”
Yang [...]

Another quibble is that the claim seems to require that the whole e-book be encrypted with a single key, which may not always be the case. The patent’s specification does mention cases in which only a portion of the book is encrypted or decrypted; these mentions, though minor, may also prove significant.
I could quibble [...]

New Trend in Biofuels Has New Risks – The New York TimesCrops planted for biofuels are invasive species, which could negatively impact farms and ecosystems, a study finds.

Competing To Fuel The Future – ForbesHere’s a write-up of the ICE New England clean-energy start-up competition, with a photo gallery of small clean-tech companies.

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Duke [...]

Nvidia’s “strategy is to design for the highest performance at all cost. And we believe designing for the sweet spot and then leveraging for the extreme enthusiast market with multiple GPUs is the preferred approach,” Skynner said.

Such statements will help define how the two chip giants do battle at the high end of the graphics [...]

The intent behind the capability is high-minded, Jobs said. Apple would need it in case a malicious program inadvertently were to be distributed to iPhones via the App Store.
“Hopefully, we never have to pull that lever,” Jobs said, “but we would be irresponsible not to have a lever like that to pull.”
On Friday, John Gruber [...]

But even with the one-time charges out of the way, AMD lost $269 million on “continuing operations,” such as its processor and graphics businesses. That’s a little better than last year’s loss of $531 million from those businesses, but AMD still has plenty of work turning itself into a profitable company in the second [...]

On the surface, none of this is encouraging news for the near-term prospects of start-ups, which are the lifeblood of the tech business. So it was that last month Ron Conway of Sequoia Capital counseled start-ups to hunker down and cut their burn rates until this squall lifts.

•  And if there was agreement [...]

RedLasso has suspended access to its video search-and-clipping site two days after NBC Universal and Fox filed a copyright suit against the company.

“We are very disappointed in the actions of select networks,” RedLasso said in a statement. “We believe we have always acted within the law and have been respectful of the networks’ rights. [...]

All I could get out of a Revision3 representative was this statement: “The Revision3 Web site experienced a disruption in service earlier today, but it has been addressed.”

Now who would want to attack Revision3?

But Valleywag reports that Revision3 co-founder David Prager attributed the outage to a possible distributed denial-of-service attack.

The news was [...]