Additionally Just days after Dow Jones confirmed that it had received a takeover bid from News Corp., news service Reuters has announced that it too is the subject of a bid. The company didn’t identify the suitor, but speculation is that it came from Thomson Corp., which offers financial data through its Thomson Financial division. As in the case of Dow Jones, Reuters has an arcane shareholder structure, so the bidder has offered a heavy premium in hopes of getting a deal done. While many news organizations are struggling right now, it’s interesting to see these bids coming in for companies with a heavy financial bent. Financial news remains a valuable commodity, and these companies have shown a strong ability to report and package this information. Still, there’s a lesson here even for the non-financial media firms, which is that companies are more likely to succeed if their content is vital for whatever base they’re trying to serve. Wow..this is a neat idea can You Patent Adding An MP3 Player To A Washing Machine The main point in the Supreme Court’s ruling on patent obviousness in the KSR vs. Teleflex decision was that simply taking two known technologies and mashing them together doesn’t necessarily constitute a patentable invention. Hopefully, the patent office will pay attention to that ruling when a new patent application from electronics maker LG gets reviewed. The Inquirer points us to a patent application from LG for adding an MP3 player to a home appliance. This patent was filed a year ago, well before the Supreme Court ruling — so hopefully companies will start recognizing that they shouldn’t even bother filing such frivolous patents.Did you know that Patent means a grant made by a government that confers upon the creator of an invention the sole right to make, use, and sell that invention for a set period of
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(NewsFactor) NewsFactor - Facebook, a social-networking site that has become an open development platform, announced Thursday that it purchased startup Parakey for an undisclosed amount. The company, started by Mozilla Firefox cofounders Blake Ross and Joe Hewitt, has been creating products to unify and integrate desktop applications and the Web. read on to check out what awaits you