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Popular domain registrar and hosting company GoDaddy has put itself up for sale according to The Wall Street Journal. Sources familiar with the matter believe the company, known for its provocative advertising campaigns, could attract upwards of $1 billion during the auction process.Go Daddy Group Inc. has hired Qatalyst Partners — an investment banking firm started by industry veteran Frank Quattrone in 2008 — to manage the auction, according to the WSJ’s report.
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The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit today ruled (PDF) on a long-standing case involving used software on eBay, and it came to an important decision: if a company says you don't have the right to resell a program, you don't have that right. Could this mean the end of the resale market for all digital content? Yup. But the court says it had no choice.
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Developers at Treyarch, the creators of Call of Duty: Black Ops, have said that the balancing process on their latest video game has been harder than for any of the other products that they have launched in the past for the franchise.
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In June 2010, several well known websites that linked to movies and TV shows lost their domain names as the U.S. Government’s ‘Operation in Our Sites’ bared its teeth. But the war against linking sites has been going on for some time, much of it off the mainstream radar, with site owners being hit by negative decisions and damages awards running to millions of dollars.
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Security researchers from Sophos warn of a new clickjacking attack, which employs advanced social engineering to trick Facebook users into advertising rogue pages.

The spam messages posted from the affected accounts read "Cheerleaders gone wild – have to see this" and contain a link and a picture of an attractive girl with pom-poms.
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New details are emerging from the bust we reported yesterday. It turns out, a major Swedish university was involved in the crackdown. All this is emerging as scene notices are surfacing where it appears that finger-pointing has begun.
While sites like Wikileaks and ThePirateBay may or may not have been affected by the raids, we can shed some new light on our earlier report. It turns out that Umeå University, a major Swedish university was also caught up in the raids conducted by police. Police insisted that the raid had nothing to do with Wikileaks and had more to do with conducting an ant-piracy sweep.
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