No more photos on Drudge?

I’ve noticed for the past two or three days, Drudge Report has not posted any photos. This could be for a variety of reasons, but I’ve always wondered if he owned the rights to the photos he posted or pulled from another domain. Has something changed? (Of course, now that I’ve posted this, photos will appear any minute now…)

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EBay eats $1.5 billion on Skype

It turns out that it’s hard to make money giving away free phone calls. EBay, which paid $2.6 billion for Skype in 2005, admits it kinda overpaid. EBay is taking a $1.43 billion charge and is canning Skype co-founders Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis - but giving them and former Skype shareholders about $500 million in the process.

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The newspaper stand that won’t sell newspapers anymore

Wonderful story from Financial Times about a New York City newsstand that has stopped selling newspapers. Reporter Dominic Rushe, relates his experience:

The people who distribute newspapers in New York are always late, said our man. “And they rip me off.” He was making 2c on a Post (cover price 25c), 5c on a Daily News (25c) and 9c on a New York Times ($1.25, or about €0.9). A plastic bag costs him 3c… Can it be true that newsagents no longer need to sell news?

(Via Fimoc)

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