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“This is about two market-leading companies coming together with limited to no overlap in strategic operations, product lines, or research and development.”

Symantec CEO John Thompson, on buying Veritas for $13.5 billion, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 December 2004

“Journalism is more than a business, it’s a calling.”

New York University professor Adam Penenberg, on the ethical lapses of online news sites, Wired News, 16 December 2004

“It is highly likely that Real’s Harmony technology will cease to work with current and future iPods.”

Apple spokeswoman Natalie Kerris, on her employer’s hacking back at online-music rival RealNetworks, Seattle Post- Intelligencer, 15 December 2004

“The magazine didn’t have the elegant seriousness we intend.”

Technology Review editor Jason Pontin, whose previous employer, Red Herring, once featured Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on its cover in a wedding dress, The New York Times, 13 December 2004

“It’s not so much differentiating that’s important, as getting the word out to people who are outside San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles that social networking exists.”

Friendster founder Jonathan Abrams, on the success his site has had at replicating its users’ narrow social circles, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 December 2004