Filed under: Business, World wide web, Blogging, Web services, Social Software, web 2.0

Today, OneSpot has formally announced the commerical availability of its OneSpot publishing-as-a-service[TM] platform. This subscription service grants publishers and businesses to deliver relevant content from across the internet to a targeted audience. Think of OneSpot as a white-label Techmeme, Sphere Netvibes and Digg solution.

For instance, if you publish a site about social media, OneSpot will provide related content from relevant sources that you can feature alongside your original content, in sidebars, headline widgets, RSS feeds and more, giving full credit to the original author and source. Thus, instead of having to populate an entire site with news stories and haphazzard links, you can focus on creating quality original content, while still linking to the biggest stories in your particular area.

OneSpot tracks over 200,000 web feeds to find content in a specific area; these feeds are from trusted sources and the user has full control over which stories are featured, approved or blocked. How content is displayed and how frequently it is published is all determined by the user. The net result is something similar to the New York Times BlogRunner service, with the additional capability to have a branded “Meme” tracker and the ability to enable user-voting a la Digg or Reddit.

We think that OneSpot is an interesting approach to content aggregation and syndication. Looking at their site, the way related articles are collected and aggregated appears both efficient and timely — a problem with many related-content engines is that the sources are sometimes old or out of date.

For businesses or publishers looking to add extra value to their sites, OneSpot might be a viable solution.

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Need to keep track of the time you’re spending on a project, but don’t feel like keeping a web browser window open all day just to use an on the internet stopwatch time tracking app? Last year we discovered Toggl, an on the web tool that makes it easy to track the time you’re spending on various projects, which makes it simple to figure out how many hours to bill to which project or boss. And this day when we were looking for a good desktop tool that does the same thing, we noticed that Toggle had released a public beta of a desktop time tracker for Windows.

Toggle Desktop is tightly integrated with Toggl’s on the web service. On the one hand that means you can’t use the desktop application if you haven’t signed up for a free account on the internet. On the other hand, it means you can easily choose from a list of tasks that you’ve already set up. And you can access your reports from any personal with a web browser. You can also use Toggl Desktop on multiple personal, safe in the knowledge that all of your hours will be logged and stored on the web.

The desktop program will begin counting your time as soon as you hit a task. Just click the huge red button to pause a task, or if you need to switch gears and work on something else, you can always hit another task. If you accidentally log a few seconds or hours that you didn’t actually work, you can always edit or delete a task from the Toggl Desktop interface.

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Filed under: Deals, XM Satellite Radio (XMSR), Sirius Satellite Radio (SIRI)

After months of being “almost” approved, it looks like the FCC might give the merger of Sirius (NASDAQ: SIRI) and XM Satellite (NASDAQ: XMSR) its green light. According to The Wall Street Journal, “The staff of the Federal Communications Commission has proposed that the bureau approve the merger.”

The two companies might have to negotiate with the agency on pricing before a final approval is issued. The FCC might put caps on what the newly formed company can charge consumers for the service and satellite receivers may be part of that process.

The real question is whether the approval will come too late to save the companies. Because they operate on different technology platforms, it could take over a year for the merger to gain real cost savings. Worse, each company has over $1 billion in debt. Neither has ever made an operating profit.

Satellite radio is also up against new competition for HD radio and portable media players and multimedia cell handsets. Many of the satellite radios are sold in new automobiles, but auto sales are down sharply.

Getting an “OK” may be better than the months of waiting had been, but the firms may already be in too much trouble for it to matter. .

Douglas A. McIntyre is an editor at 247wallst.com.

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BCE Inc (NYSE: BCE) is trading at $34 in pre-open trading, above its close of $32.71.

BCE will ask Supreme Court of Canada on June 17, 2008 to overturn an appeals court ruling that the takeover of the company by an investment arm of Ontario Instructors Pension, Providence Partners and Madison Dearborn Partners didn’t adequately consider the negative effect on bondholders.

BCE July option implied volatility of 35 is near its 26-week average according to Track Data, suggesting non-directional price movement.

Option Update is provided by Stock Specialist Paul Foster of theflyonthewall.com

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Filed under: Before the bell, Major movement, Analyst upgrades and downgrades, Deals, Apple Inc (AAPL), General Electric (GE), Ford Motor (F), XM Satellite Radio (XMSR), Sirius Satellite Radio (SIRI), JPMorgan Chase (JPM)

Before the bell: Futures higher with Lehman, AIG in focus

Futures reversed course and are now lower as investors still await Lehman’s results.

Deutsche Telekom AG (NYSE: DT)’s T-Mobile will sell Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL)’s 3G iPhone for as tiny as 1 euro ($1.54) for the 8-gigabyte version together with a 69 euro monthly contract, it stated on Monday. Under the new agreements where carriers don’t have to share call revenue with Apple, iPhones sales might increase as carriers would subsidise them. It’s interesting to note that some carriers have stated iPhone users consume 30 times as much data as users of other Internet-enabled phones.

The New York Times reported that Kirk Kerkorian will meet with top executives of Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) next week to show support for management and the automaker’s turnaround plan. This is after, of course, Kerkorian’s Tracinda Corp finished a tender offer on Friday to acquire 20 million shares of Ford for $170 million.

Shares of General Electric (NYSE: GE), already under pressure lately, are down 1.3% in premarket trading after J.P. Morgan Securities downgraded the industrial conglomerate to Neutral from Overweight and cut its 2009 earnings forecast from $2.40 to $2.30 saying GE has more earnings risk and lack of visibility.

With Bear Stearns now part of J.P. Morgan Chase (NYSE: JPM), concerns arose that possible indictment against two former Bear managers could affect JPMorgan. But it seems JPMorgan would not be part of broader charges while criminal charges of fraud could be the managers of two bond portfolios.

Meanwhile Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI) and XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: XMSR) shares are climbing 10% each after new outlets reported the FCC might approve the deal where Sirius would buyout its bigger rival, XM.

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Filed under: Deals, XM Satellite Radio (XMSR), Sirius Satellite Radio (SIRI)

After months of being “almost” approved, it looks like the FCC might give the merger of Sirius (NASDAQ: SIRI) and XM Satellite (NASDAQ: XMSR) its green light. According to The Wall Street Journal, “The staff of the Federal Communications Commission has proposed that the agency approve the merger.”

The two companies may have to negotiate with the bureau on pricing before a final approval is issued. The FCC might put caps on what the newly formed company can charge consumers for the service and satellite receivers may be part of that process.

The real question is whether the approval will come too late to save the companies. Because they operate on different technology platforms, it could take over a year for the merger to gain real cost savings. Worse, each company has over $1 billion in debt. Neither has ever made an operating profit.

Satellite radio is also up against new competition for HD radio and portable media players and multimedia cell handsets. Many of the satellite radios are sold in new automobiles, but auto sales are down sharply.

Getting an “OK” might be better than the months of waiting had been, but the firms may already be in too much trouble for it to matter. .

Douglas A. McIntyre is an editor at 247wallst.com.

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Filed under: Before the bell, Major movement, Analyst upgrades and downgrades, Deals, Apple Inc (AAPL), General Electric (GE), Ford Motor (F), XM Satellite Radio (XMSR), Sirius Satellite Radio (SIRI), JPMorgan Chase (JPM)

Before the bell: Futures higher with Lehman, AIG in focus

Futures reversed course and are now lower as investors still await Lehman’s results.

Deutsche Telekom AG (NYSE: DT)’s T-Mobile will sell Apple Inc (NASDAQ: AAPL)’s 3G iPhone for as tiny as 1 euro ($1.54) for the 8-gigabyte version together with a 69 euro monthly contract, it said on Monday. Under the new agreements where carriers don’t have to share call revenue with Apple, iPhones sales might increase as carriers would subsidise them. It’s interesting to note that some carriers have said iPhone users consume 30 times as much data as users of other Internet-enabled phones.

The New York Times reported that Kirk Kerkorian will meet with top executives of Ford Motor Co. (NYSE: F) next week to show support for management and the automaker’s turnaround plan. This is after, of course, Kerkorian’s Tracinda Corp completed a tender offer on Friday to acquire 20 million shares of Ford for $170 million.

Shares of General Electric (NYSE: GE), already under pressure lately, are down 1.3% in premarket trading after J.P. Morgan Securities downgraded the industrial conglomerate to Neutral from Overweight and cut its 2009 earnings forecast from $2.40 to $2.30 saying GE has more earnings risk and lack of visibility.

With Bear Stearns now part of J.P. Morgan Chase (NYSE: JPM), concerns arose that possible indictment against two former Bear managers could affect JPMorgan. But it seems JPMorgan would not be part of broader charges while criminal charges of fraud could be the managers of two bond portfolios.

Meanwhile Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI) and XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: XMSR) shares are climbing 10% each after new outlets reported the FCC might approve the deal where Sirius would buyout its bigger rival, XM.

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Filed under: Before the bell, Earnings reports, Deals, XM Satellite Radio (XMSR), Sirius Satellite Radio (SIRI), Market matters, Amer Intl Group (AIG), Economic data, Barclays plc ADS (BCS), Oil, Lehman Br Holdings (LEH), Housing, Federal Reserve

U.S. stock futures were a tiny higher early Monday, reacting mostly to news in the financials again with Lehman Brothers set to report large quarterly loss, AIG ousting its CEO and Barclays surging in London.

On Friday, U.S. stocks climbed after May CPI report showed core inflation was inline with expectations. The Dow industrials added 165 points, or 1.37%, the S&P 500 rose 20 points, or 1.50%, and the Nasdaq Composite jumped 50 points, or 2.09%.

Not many economic indicator are due for release today:
At 8:30 a.m. EDT, June NY Empire State Index, a regional manufacturing reading will be reported.
At 9:00 a.m., April net foreign security purchases figures are due out.
Apart from official readings, the National Association of Home Builders will release the latest housing market index in the afternoon. Lately some figures have been showing a possible bottoming and it would be interesting to see what the index brings about.

Lehman Brothers (NYSE: LEH) is due to release its second-quarter earnings results. The bank has already estimated last week it would lose some $2.8 billion due to massive writedowns.

American International Group Inc. (NYSE: AIG) ousted its chief executive over the weekend and on Sunday named former Citigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) executive Robert Willumstad to the top post.

According to Bloomberg: “Barclays Plc (NYSE: BCS) rose the most in 16 years in London trading after the bank eased concerns that a stock sale will hurt current shareholders and reported earnings last month were better than a year ago.”

And good news for some shareholders, and maybe consumers too. According to the Associated Press, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission finally gave its recommendation to approve the $5 billion merger between the Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. (NASDAQ: SIRI) and XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: XMSR) in exchange for concessions that include turning over 24 channels to noncommercial and minority programming.

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