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AP sues online news aggregator for scraping content

The Associated Press is suing Moreover, an online news aggregator and its parent company VeriSign. The AP says the company is illegally accessing and distributing Associated Press content without permission. Moreover is sort of like a subscription version of Google News. If you visit the company's main page you get a lot of information about the service, but no free content. Users can sign up for ...

Leaked Hot Scoop: Yahoo buys Rivals.com

In a recently leaked story on a PR news site, Yahoo has announced its first deal since the CEO swapping fiasco. GigaOm's Liz Gannes caught sight of this timing error on an Associated Press story that could have Yahoo in the front of the line for the online obsessive sporting fan. Under Jerry Yang's command its business as usual, and Yahoo is moving along by acquiring the hard core sporting site ...

Googleholic for August 8th 2006

In this issue of Googleholic we'ss cover: Google Talk WiFi phone Google and AP Military Secrets GoogDesk Google Digital Music Dive into Googleholic... ...

Newsvine social news site launches

After two months of closed beta testing, social news site Newsvine made its public debut yesterday. A sort of cross between Google News, Digg, and Wikinews, Newsvine combines wire news from the Associated Press and ESPN with user-submitted links and content. Like Digg, users can vote and comment on all stories, but that's about where the similarities end. Newsvine has no tech bent and its topics ...