EA posts 2Q loss, cutting 17 pct. of work force (AP)

November 9, 2009

Rock Band.' Game publisher Electronic Arts is expected to release second-quarter financial results after the closing bell Monday, Nov. 9, 2009. (AP Photo/MTV Games, file)AP - Electronic Arts plans to cut its work force by 17 percent as it tries to align its business with a transforming video game industry.


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AppleTree.com Targets Online Family Trees

November 9, 2009
A new, online family tree site has surfaced in Southern California, AppleTree.com, based in Manhattan Beach, which apparently has the involvement of former GoToMyPC founder Klaus Schauser. According to AppleTree's web site, it is a publicly viewable, openly editable and global family tree, which allows friends and relatives to collaborate to help fill out their family tree. Schauser, an active angel investor, is listed as a board member of the firm in regulatory filings. The firm would be the second, Web-based family tree site in Los Angeles, after Geni.com, the online family tree site headed by former PayPal founder David Sacks.No tag for this post.

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Deadline in Google book deal extended to Friday (AP)

November 9, 2009

FILE - In this March 21, 2008 file photo, a scanner passes over a book at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich., where one of hundreds of librarians from all over the world was helping Google Inc.'s Book Search create digital versions of all the estimated 50 million to 100 million books in the world. The Monday, Nov. 9, 2009 deadline for Google Inc. and the publishers suing the company to come up with a new settlement over the ambitious book-scanning project has been postponed. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, file)AP - A judge has given Google Inc. more time to revise a legal settlement that has drawn government scrutiny because it would give the Internet search leader the digital rights to millions of out-of-print books.


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