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  Five reasons Sun
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  Amid a tight credit market and skepticism about its product lineup, a dramatic restructuring might be the only way to make investors happy.

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• MySpace Music to name Courtney Holt chief next week

  The lengthy CEO search at MySpace Music is finally coming to an end. Now let's see what the new guy can do against Apple.

  (Posted in Digital Media by Greg Sandoval)

• Q&A: What's ahead for Visual Studio and .Net

  Microsoft's Jason Zander and Matt Carter talk tools and set out the company's manifesto for data democracy.

• The key to innovation: Privately owned fiber?

  A paper released by the New America Foundation proposes encouraging consumers to purchase their own fiber lines.

  (Posted in Politics and Law by Stephanie Condon)

• SEC exempts Facebook from revealing finances for now

  The Securities and Exchange Commission is exempting Facebook from having to make its finances public even though it may soon have more than 500 employees with restricted stock.

  (Posted in Politics and Law by Stephanie Condon)

• GigaOm drops ad deal with Federated Media for IDG

  Om Malik's tech blog network decides to go with new ad network from tech publisher IDG after three years with Federated Media.

  (Posted in Digital Media by Elinor Mills)

• Palm orders layoffs as Apple and RIM take toll

  The job cuts come as Palm works to get its next-generation operating system ready to compete with Apple, RIM, and the rest of the smartphone market in 2009.

  (Posted in Wireless by Tom Krazit)

• Week in review: Yahoo to replace Yang

  Search giant searches for new CEO, while Microsoft takes its security strategy in a new direction. Also: Sing along with DRM.

  (Posted in Business Tech by Steven Musil)

• World's largest zeppelin dedicated at NASA facility

  To be called the Eureka, the 246-feet long zeppelin is the pride and joy of a company called Airship Ventures, which will offer the public rides, as well as help NASA do scientific research.

  (Posted in Gaming and Culture by Daniel Terdiman)

• Report: Huffington Post lands $15 million in VC funding

  The site plans to use the proceeds to help fund its expansion, which will include offering local news and investigative journalism.

  (Posted in Digital Media by Dawn Kawamoto)

• Intel graphics discontent justified?

  There's a long history of hard feelings about the graphics capabilities of Intel silicon. Some of the criticism is valid--but some of it surely misses the point.

  (Posted in Nanotech - The Circuits Blog by Brooke Crothers)

• Europeana goes online and is then overwhelmed

  A new digital library of Europe's cultural heritage crashed just hours after it went online and will be out of operation for several weeks.
  (From The New York Times)

• Google crunches numbers on clean-energy policy

  Search giant pressures policy makers with an analysis arguing that government and business can clean the U.S. energy supply while stimulating the economy.

  (Posted in Green Tech by Martin LaMonica)

• Woman who posed as boy testifies in MySpace case

  Young woman tells federal jury she had posed as a boy in e-mail messages to a 13-year-old girl that ended in the girl's expressing suicidal thoughts and hanging herself.
  (From The New York Times)

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