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Tech News Flash: Friday -- March 28, 2014

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Newspapers Cling to Life Despite Online News Trend
US Judge: Free Speech Protects Baidu's Beijing-OK'd Results
New Linux Office Suite Too Soft to Be King
Facebook Makes Unreal Acquisition

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Today's Story Highlights

Newspapers Cling to Life Despite Online News Trend
Print media is limping along and TV news has gained some strength, even
though the trend toward getting news online continues to grow, Pew
Research reported this week. It all boils down to economics, said Mark
Jerkowitz, associate director of the Pew Research Center Journalism
Project. Advertising revenues for newspapers have fallen about 50
percent from 2006.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/80212.html

US Judge: Free Speech Protects Baidu's Beijing-OK'd Results
A Manhattan judge ruled that a Chinese search engine's practice of
restricting free speech is, wouldn't you know it, protected by free
speech. Chinese Internet company Baidu won the dismissal of a U.S.
lawsuit filed by activists who objected to its, shall we say, selective
search results, which adhere to the government's notoriously limited
view of what is and isn't acceptable.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/80218.html

New Linux Office Suite Too Soft to Be King
The Kingsoft Office Suite holds the promise of bringing a near perfect
clone of Microsoft Office to Linux desktop users. However, Kingsoft's
developers still have some work to do on the Linux Alpha release to make
it a beta deal. Other than OpenOffice and LibreOffice, the Linux
platform lacks any full-featured office suite. Both of these more in
common with each other than distinguishing features.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/80209.html

Facebook Makes Unreal Acquisition
Facebook has agreed to acquire Oculus VR, maker of the Oculus Rift
virtual reality gaming hardware. Facebook will pay around $2 billion for
the company. That figure includes $400 million in cash and 23.1 million
shares of Facebook common stock, valued at $1.6 billion based on recent
average trading price. There is a provision for an additional $300
million earnout based on performance.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/80201.html

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