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		<title>Struggling Six Apart Begged for $2M Loan (Bobbie Johnson/GigaOM)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bobbie Johnson / GigaOM:Struggling Six Apart Begged for $2M Loan&#160; &#8212;&#160; When blogging pioneer Six Apart announced in September that it was being purchased by ad network VideoEgg and being folded into a new company, Say Media, the deal confirmed what many had been saying for some time: the once-hot startup had been left &#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Boxee Box review (Nilay Patel/Engadget)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nilay Patel / Engadget:Boxee Box review&#160; &#8212;&#160; It&#8217;s a little strange that the Boxee Box by D-Link feels like a late entrant in this year&#8217;s crowded smart TV market &#8212; the core Boxee software has been around forever, and the Box itself was announced way back in January at CES.&#160; But a platform switch from NVIDIA&#8217;s Tegra 2 chip &#8230;]]></description>
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</p></div><ul><li><a href="http://www.techmeme.com/120209/p64#a120209p64"target="_new" title="LinkedIn Just Hit 150 Million Registered Users (Matt Lynley/Business Insider)" >LinkedIn Just Hit 150 Million Registered Users (Matt Lynley/Business Insider)</a></li></ul><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><a href="?//www.businessinsider.com/linkedin-just-hit-150-million-registered-users-2012-2?op=1"><img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" align="right" src="?//www.techmeme.com/120209/i64.jpg"></a><p><a href="?//www.techmeme.com/120209/p64#a120209p64" title="Techmeme permalink"><img width="11" height="12" src="?//www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border:none;padding:0;margin:0"></a> Matt Lynley / <a href="?//www.businessinsider.com/">Business Insider</a>:<br><span style="font-size:1.3em"><b><a href="?//www.businessinsider.com/linkedin-just-hit-150-million-registered-users-2012-2?op=1">LinkedIn Just Hit 150 Million Registered Users</a></b></span>  &mdash;  LinkedIn now has more than 150 million registered users, the company announced today.  &mdash;  Around 6.1 million LinkedIn members live in New York &mdash; more than any other state &mdash; and more than 5 million of them are based in the city, according to the company.
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		<title>F.B.I. Seeks Wider Wiretap Law for Web (Charlie Savage/New York Times)</title>
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		<dc:creator>Michael Ashworth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Charlie Savage / New York Times:F.B.I. Seeks Wider Wiretap Law for Web&#160; &#8212;&#160; WASHINGTON &#8212; Robert S. Mueller III, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, traveled to Silicon Valley on Tuesday to meet with top executives of several technology firms about a proposal to make it easier to wiretap Internet users.]]></description>
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		<dc:creator>Michael Ashworth</dc:creator>
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		<dc:creator>Michael Ashworth</dc:creator>
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		<dc:creator>Michael Ashworth</dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 07:41:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ashworth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It turns out that the world’s best-selling book, the Bible, has now produced one of the smartphone world’s most popular apps: YouVersion , which added its 10 millionth user Tuesday. Launched in April 2008 by Oklahoma megachurch LifeChurch.tv , the free YouVersion has experienced wildfire growth, becoming the leading free Bible app in iTunes from 2008-2010 and achieving a 5-star app by 50,000+ people. The company said its stats show that someone new is installing the app every 2.8 seconds, while 12 other people are opening the app during that same time period. YouVersion measures the n]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://buzz.yahoo.com/article/1:a8f0890373abe06194e21862d591297e:a8fc1306fd8174f589023cb96dc92b0c"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/cn/yahoo/27/xf/pw/34/4g/gs/im/fd/oo/wt/c4/gj/fq/ix5ukoa/article_image.jpg" align="left" border="1" /></a>It turns out that the world’s best-selling book, the Bible, has now produced one of the smartphone world’s most popular apps: YouVersion , which added its 10 millionth user Tuesday. </p>
<p> Launched in April 2008 by Oklahoma megachurch LifeChurch.tv , the free YouVersion has experienced wildfire growth, becoming the leading free Bible app in iTunes from 2008-2010 and achieving a 5-star app by 50,000+ people. </p>
<p> The company said its stats show that someone new is installing the app every 2.8 seconds, while 12 other people are opening the app during that same time period. </p>
<p> YouVersion measures the n</p>
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