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DMW Daily, April 2, 2009

Top Stories
o Sweden Sees Web Traffic Drop in Wake of Anti-Piracy Law
o Study: Workers Allowed Personal Web Surfing More Productive
o WSJ: IBM Lowers Takeover Bid for Sun Microsystems
o Rosetta Stone to Raise $106.3M in Rare IPO
o Group to Protest Removal of Text-to-Speech From Amazon Kindle
o Direct-to-Consumer Music Platform Mubito Enters Administration
Opinion & Analysis
o Buzz Watch: Jonas Luster Talks About How To Make Better MMORPGs
Briefly Noted
o Netflix Ships Two Billionth Movie Rental
o Amazon Launches MP3 Store in Germany
o CNET: Wired.com Lays Off Several Employees
o QuickPlay to Offer Full Episode TV Downloads to BlackBerrys
 Top Stories
o Sweden Sees Web Traffic Drop in Wake of Anti-Piracy Law 
Los Angeles - A day after the country enacted a new anti-piracy law, Internet traffic fell as much as 30% in Sweden, home to the file-sharing hub The Pirate Bay, according to published reports. [more..]
o Study: Workers Allowed Personal Web Surfing More Productive 
Melbourne, Australia - Workers who are allowed to surf the Internet for personal reasons on the job are about 9% more productive than those who aren't, according to a new study conducted by the University of Melbourne. [more..]
o WSJ: IBM Lowers Takeover Bid for Sun Microsystems 
Santa Clara, Calif. - IBM has lowered the amount that it is willing to pay for server maker Sun Microsystems, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. [more..]
o Rosetta Stone to Raise $106.3M in Rare IPO 
Arlington, Va. - Rosetta Stone, a developer of language learning software and online services, said that it plans to raised as much as $106.3 million later this month in an IPO. [more..]
o Group to Protest Removal of Text-to-Speech From Amazon Kindle 
New York - An advocacy group called the Reading Rights Coalition, which represents millions of disabled people who cannot read print, said on Thursday that they are planning a protest outside the Authors Guild headquarters in New York over the threatened removal of the text-to-speech feature in Amazon.com's Kindle 2 e-book reader device. [more..]
o Direct-to-Consumer Music Platform Mubito Enters Administration 
Malmo, Sweden - The parent company of Mubito, a Sweden-based company that builds direct-to-consumer Web platforms for artists and record labels, has gone into administration, MusicWeek reported. [more..]
 Opinion & Analysis
o Buzz Watch: Jonas Luster Talks About How To Make Better MMORPGs 
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 Briefly Noted
o Netflix Ships Two Billionth Movie Rental 
Los Gatos, Calif. - Online DVD rental service Netflix said on Thursday that this week it delivered its two billionth movie since launching back in 1999. [more..]
o Amazon Launches MP3 Store in Germany 
London - Amazon.com has launched an MP3 store in Germany with a library of 5 million songs, Billboard reported. [more..]
o CNET: Wired.com Lays Off Several Employees 
San Francisco - Conde Nast's Wired.com, the website affiliated with WIRED magazine, has laid off three full-time staffers and five contract workers, CNET News.com reported, citing Wired.com editor-in-chief Evan Hansen's Twitter feed. [more..]
o QuickPlay to Offer Full Episode TV Downloads to BlackBerrys 
Las Vegas - QuickPlay Media, a provider of mobile video distribution, has announced plans to launch a service that will deliver full episodes of TV shows to RIM's BlackBerry smartphones. [more..]