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Internet ad network Specific Media Inc. has raised $100 million to help finance its expansion plans amid a flurry of dealmaking in the advertising industry.

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Internet startup Meebo is urging developers to create applications around its Web-based IM (instant-messaging) site, an attempt to create Facebook-like momentum.

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Microsoft is paying a premium to keep Facebook from the clutches of rival Google in a deal that puts an inflated 15 billion dollar price tag on the red-hot startup, analysts said Thursday.

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Touting a successful pairing of wireless and hi-fi audio, fabless chip vendor Avnera Corp. (Beaverton, Ore.) today will announce chip sets for wireless audio connections in the 2.4-GHz band that outperform data-oriented wireless connections in range, freedom from interference, automatic network configuration and full CD-quality sound.

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It seems every few years, someone predicts doom for the Internet. It’s Larry Roberts’s turn. According to Roberts — well known as a team member behind Arpanet, the project that eventually grew into today’s Internet — it’s not technology that has the Internet in trouble, but economics.

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NEW YORK — Comcast Corp. on Tuesday acknowledged “delaying” some subscriber Internet traffic, but said any roadblocks it puts up are temporary and intended to improve surfing for other users.

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Surviving a market bust — real estate or otherwise — takes fortitude. The first rule is don’t panic. Every downturn has an upside. So say Chad Parks, whose startup company outlasted the 2001 dot-com bust, and David Decker, author of “Cash In on the Coming Real Estate Crash.” Their tips:

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Internet refrigerators were a joke a few years ago, but RFID startup Blue Vector Systems says that it’s finding real customers for them. The concept is similar to the vision of household appliances that automatically reorder groceries, only aimed at enterprise supply chains instead of home kitchens.

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NOVATO — E-mail, Web sites and automated phone messaging aside, nothing beats the power of a live human voice when it comes to sales and service.

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Heather Chan, 24, was at a barbecue recently when the mother of a friend brought out a slab of green Jell-O filled with chunks of vegetables. It was a moment that begged to be broadcast. “I thought, ‘Gross - I have to share this with everyone else,’ ” said…

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