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...Talent Google puts deals in one of two baskets - small talent buys and big strategic buys. In Picnik they got two for the price of one. Among Picnik's 22-person staff are three former Microsoft employees - "three of the best guys ever to step off the Redmond campus on one team," boasts Picnik adviser Burgess - along with other respected Web talents. Marcelo Calbucci, an entrepreneur who founded Seattle 2.0, a service for Seattle start-ups, estimates on his blog that Google paid at least $46 million for Picnik, possibly twice that much. Picnik and Google have both refused...
...range that experts say is its true value. "The return to a euro-dollar balance of under $1.30 by the end of the year now seems possible," French bank BNP Paribas recently reported. Of course, those bargain American vacations Europeans have become used to taking just got a lot more expensive...
...followed by a raft of near identical statements by the other Democrats - almost all of them sclerotic committee chairs with far more seniority than debating skill. They produced a Woodstock of heart-tugging anecdotes, but not much else ... except, perhaps, another demonstration of the smug Democratic incompetence that got us to this point. (See the top 10 players in health care reform...
...White House has proved to be a harder perch from which to dominate the conversation. Last summer, a single phrase - "death panels" - nearly derailed health care reform, as town halls were flooded with angry voters who got their information online. That there was no proposal for anything that resembled a death panel did not matter; the idea went viral anyway. "The process for covering the President hasn't changed as much as the medium of the media has," explains Gibbs, who recently joined Twitter and promptly earned 34,000 followers. "You have a complete segmentation of the media that...
...cyclone is the new reality, and respect must be paid. "You can't really control it," Pfeiffer says. "You've just got to sort of edge it in one direction or another...