Corp. To (Internet advertising) Acquire Intermix Media (TechWeb)TechWeb - News Corp. says

Corp. To (Internet advertising) Acquire Intermix Media (TechWeb)TechWeb - News Corp. says

News Corp. To Acquire Intermix Media (TechWeb)
TechWeb - News Corp. says it has agreed to acquire Intermix Media Inc., which owns more than 30 e-commerce and media websites, for$580 million in cash, tripling News Corp.'s reach among U.S. Internet users and making it a player in the online social-networking market.

China's Baidu to remove pirated music links -FT (Reuters)
Reuters - Baidu.com Inc., China's biggestInternet search engine and which is pursuing a U.S. publiclisting, has agreed to remove links to thousands of Internetsites offering pirated music, the Financial Times reported onTuesday.

Microsoft Will Swallow RSS (Ziff Davis)
Ziff Davis - History shows that Longhorn and IE's embrace of RSS will leave little room for competitors.

Snap.com Plans to Combat'Click Fraud'(AP)
AP - People scoffed nearly a decade ago when serial entrepreneur Bill Gross proposed an online search engine that ranked results based on how much advertisers were willing to pay to have their links tied to specific requests.

Blinkx Offers TV, Radio Program Searches (AP)
AP - Search company Blinkx launched a free service on Tuesday that scans radio and television programs available on the Internet and automatically delivers the shows to a user's computer.

Blinkx Gives Users Their RSS TV (PC World)
PC World - Startup indexes search terms, then notifies users when matching content is available.

Affinity Internet Announces E-Commerce Service for Small Businesses (TechWeb)
TechWeb - Affinity Internet today announced the launch of ReadyWeb Commerce, a new service for small businesses that want to establish an e-commerce-enabled Web presence.