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New York Times:
176 Newspapers to Form a Partnership With Yahoo — John Marshall Mantel for The New York Times, left; George Frey for The New York Times — Terry S. Semel, left, chief of Yahoo, which is trying to regain its luster. Dean Singleton, the chief of MediaNews, said the deal would help newspapers earn money online.
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Staci D. Kramer / PaidContent:
It's Official: Yahoo HotJobs-Seven Newspaper Publishers Join Forces; Deal Includes Local News — ScrippsNews appears to have jumped the gun by a few hours by running a done-deal story about a "wide-reaching alliance" between Yahoo and seven publishers. Some of the details have shifted since Saturday's WSJ report.
Maria Aspan / New York Times:
Lyrics Celebrating Bank Merger Impress Only Copyright Lawyer — A video of two Bank of America employees singing a version of U2's "One" to commemorate their company's acquisition of MBNA recently made the rounds of the blogs, prompting amusement and some ridicule from online viewers.
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Mike / Techdirt:
Universal Music Strikes Again: Threatens Bank Of America Over Ridiculous Parody Song — from the you-can't-be-serious dept — Yikes. Last week when we pointed to Universal Music's bad decision to sue MySpace we noted how aggressive the company has been recently in demanding that everyone pay …
Randall Stross / New York Times:
Cellphone as Tracker: X Marks Your Doubts — THE diminutive cellphone is turning out to be the most clever of devices. As it connects to more networks, stores more kinds of data, delivers more kinds of entertainment — wherever we happen to be — it effectively becomes the most personal computer we own.
Ben Edelman / BenEdelman.org:
Bad Practices Continue at Zango, Notwithstanding Proposed FTC Settlement and Zango's Claims — Earlier this month, the FTC announced the proposed settlement of its investigation into Zango, makers of advertising software widely installed onto users' computers without their consent or without …
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Suzi Turner / Spyware Confidential:
Zango's continued bad practices in light of FTC's proposed settlement terms — Just over two weeks ago, the FTC announced a proposed settlement with Zango for the complaint filed earlier this year. Under terms of the settlement, Zango is required to give up $3 million in ill-gotten gains …
Antonio / The Tabblo Blog:
Screw all of this Yahoo bashing — Before everyone declares Yahoo dead and irrelevant, we at Tabblo figured we'd throw a little support behind the company that has given us a whole bunch of help in getting this whole thing going. — I'm referring of course to the recent pile-on regarding the …
Robert D. Hershey Jr / New York Times:
Sunny and Gloomy Signs at a Web Crossroads — IN mid-October, Yahoo, the world's biggest Internet portal, reported a sharp profit skid and warned of a further growth slowdown in two major lines of business — a performance that its unusually contrite chief executive said had failed to fully exploit the company's strengths.
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
AGLOCO launches — will pay you to surf the Web — AGLOCO is a controversial new Stanford-based start-up that wants to pay you to surf the Web, in return for access to your online surfing information. It launches tonight. — It was discovered two weeks ago by Gigaom, which blasted it as a pyramid scheme.
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Ryan Block / Engadget:
Wii FAQ: answers to your Wii questions — We've had our Wii kicking around the office for a little while now, but we had to hold off on answering your many questions about it until last night when they rolled out their launch update. Trust us, it definitely changed some answers, so let's get to the FAQ.
Everton Blair / Connected Internet:
Microsoft Windows Comes Of Age - Happy 21st Birthday! — Believe it or not Windows is 21 years old on Monday. When it was launched in 1985 the PC market was barely out of it's infancy, and whatever you may think of Microsoft it is amazing what they Bill Gates & Co have built in such a relatively short time.
Popsci / Popular Science Blog:
Wii Broke It — It is with a heavy heart that we bring you this special weekend report. When PopSci's Wii arrived last week, it didn't spend too much time in the box. Ripped open without any hesitation, our little Wii gave us a long Friday's worth of furious Wii Sports and Excite Truck action at PopSci HQ.
Julie Bosman / New York Times:
The Kid With All the News About the TV News — TOWSON, Md. — When people in the television news business want to find out what's going on in their industry, they turn to a blog called TVNewser. But while the executives obsessively checking TVNewser are mostly high powered and highly paid …
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Wiimote strap breaks, controller destroys TV — So there's this dude who was playing Wii Sports bowling, as his story goes, and his pal rolls a Lebowski and the next thing you know the strap breaks from the force of the swing; his slippery hands let loose, and the Wiimote flies like a missile and cracks his pal's TV.
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