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5:50 PM ET, December 6, 2006

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Elise Ackerman / Mercury News:
Big shakeup at Yahoo  —  COO TO LEAVE; CFO TO TAKE ON BIGGER ROLE  —  Yahoo announced a major reorganization this evening, addressing critics who for months have questioned the search giant's ability to effectively compete with other Internet companies.  —  In an announcement sent late this evening …
Discussion: VentureBeat and Geeking with Greg
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Kevin Newcomb / ClickZ:   Yahoo Announces Major Reorganization
Valleywag:
THE POWER LIST: The definitive guide to Yahoo's players
Discussion: Paul Kedrosky's … and Mark Evans
Terry Semel / Yodel Anecdotal:
Taking Yahoo! forward
John Paczkowski / Good Morning Silicon Valley:
Hey Terry, ever hear the one about the CEO and the three envelopes?
Discussion: Bloomberg
Leslie Katz / CNET News.com:
James Kim found deceased  —  just in The body of missing CNET editor James Kim has been located, authorities announced Wednesday.  —  Arrangements are being made to transport Kim to an undisclosed location, according to police.  Kim had been missing in the remote southwestern Oregon wilderness for 11 days.
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KGW-TV:
Trackers find clothing in search for missing SF father  —  MERLIN, Ore. — Search teams who tracked a creek at the bottom of a rugged Oregon canyon Tuesday found pants they believe belong to a San Francisco man who set out three days earlier seeking help for his stranded family.
Dan Fost / San Francisco Chronicle:
Valley's 'Mr. Web 2.0' seeks next big thing  —  TechCrunch blog ruffles feathers on the Internet beat  —  Michael Arrington's influential blog TechCrunch — where startups get pimped and big news sometimes breaks first — has vaulted him into the post of "Mr. Web 2.0," …
Business Wire:
Amazon Invests in Wikia Series B Financing: Amazon's Value-Added Capital Key to Wikia's Expanding Product Plans  —  SAN MATEO, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Wikia, Inc., the leading wiki site for information on thousands of topics written by a community of contributors, today announced …
Discussion: GigaOM and PE HUB
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Amazon takes major stake in Wikia  —  Wikia, a San Mateo company that allows groups to share information about their interests with wiki technology, has raised a second round of funding — all of it coming from Amazon.com.  —  It is not clear how much traction Wikia company has gained.
Candace Lombardi / CNET News.com:
Microsoft releasing book search in beta  —  Microsoft is releasing Live Search Books, its competitor to Google Book Search, in beta on Wednesday.  —  The book search engine performs keyword searches for books that have been scanned as part of Microsoft's book scanning project …
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Brad Stone / New York Times:
Spam Doubles, Finding New Ways to Deliver Itself  —  Hearing from a lot of new friends lately?  You know, the ones that write "It's me, Esmeralda," and tip you off to an obscure stock that is "poised to explode" or a great deal on prescription drugs.  —  You're not the only one.
Slash Lane / AppleInsider:
Prudential: iPhone to sport click wheel; video iPod by Q2  —  Apple Computer's much anticipated iPod cell phone will look like an iPod with a small screen and a click-wheel interface, according to one Wall Street analyst.  —  In an extensive research note released to clients earlier this week …
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AppleInsider:
Apple smart phone project rests on Mac OS X tie-ins  —  For several years now, an elite squad of engineers at Apple Computer have been working diligently to perfect an intuitive smart phone concept that would both conform to the company's integrated model and oblige chief executive Steve Jobs.
PC World:
Toshiba Develops 1.8-Inch 100GB Hard Drive  —  Higher-capacity MP3 players and notebooks could be coming next year.  —  Higher capacity music players and laptop computers could be on the way thanks to a new hard drive from Toshiba that manages a 25 percent jump in storage space over current models.
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Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Does new hard drive foreshadow 100GB iPod?
Discussion: Kevin Maney
Ryan / CyberNet Technology News:
CyberNotes: 200 Firefox Extensions Installed At One Time!  —  Web Browser Wednesday  —  Earlier this year a guy installed 100 Firefox extensions without any problems.  Well...I decided to try and top that.  I picked the nice round number of 200 for a few different reasons.
blog.centraldesktop.com:
Google's Silent Monopoly (Or How Much Does Google Pay For It's Own AdWords?)  —  What does the future of start-ups look like when they spend a majority of their advertising budget with one company - and its your competitor? … - Right?  —  The history of business is filled with examples …
Jeffrey M. O'Brien / Fortune:
Is Google too smart for its own good?  —  Google's famous for hiring the best and the brightest, but when they get bored, they're bound to create the son-of-Google, warns Fortune's Jeffrey O'Brien.  —  SAN FRANCISCO (Fortune) — A roomful of 300-odd flaks gathered over rubber chicken on Friday …
Discussion: Slashdot
Wall Street Journal:
In a Turnabout, Record Industry Releases MP3s  —  The music industry has long resisted selling music in the MP3 format, which lacks the copy protections that prevent songs from being duplicated endlessly.  But now, Blue Note Records and its marquee artist, jazz-pop singer Norah Jones …
John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
PACKAGED GOODS MEDIA VS. CONVERSATIONAL MEDIA, PART ONE  —  In the past month or so, three senior executives charged with running the interactive units of major media companies have either been shown the door, or have left on their own accord because they found their jobs no longer fit their character.
Discussion: Digital Micro-Markets and A VC
Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
Virtual News at Seven  —  As progress marches forward, lots of different industries have understandably feared disintermediation.  Journalists, naturally, are one such bunch.  However, they have adapted nicely to the rise of citizen journalism and bloggers.  Witness, for example, Gannett's move to crowdsource.
 
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Michele Gershberg / Reuters:
Oz to bring social networking to mobile phones
Discussion: CrunchGear and Phone Scoop
Tom Foremski / Silicon Valley Watcher:
Intel Breakthrough: Demonstrates Its First Mobile WiMAX Baseband Chip
Discussion: Business Wire
Ryanne / Ryan Is Hungry:
Eric Case on Blogger Beta
Rebecca Lieb / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Moving Forward with Search Engine Watch
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
How and why Microsoft is breathing new life into MSN
Associated Press:
Japanese group asks YouTube for system to prevent upload of copyrighted works
Matt Haughey / PVRblog:
Wild rumor: Apple & TiVo partner for iTV
 Earlier Items: 
Donna Bogatin / Digital Micro-Markets:
Crovitz on WSJ: 80-20 editorial rule in 2007
Discussion: BuzzMachine and Paul Mooney
USA Today:
Google offer takes on PayPal
Tom Foremski / Silicon Valley Watcher:
Dan Farber's Experimental Blogger Army...
Business 2.0:
A toy story, YouTube-style
Discussion: I4U News and digg
Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
MySpace to Apple: Fix that worm
LC Angell / iLounge:
DLO offers HomeDock Pro
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The Meaning of Friendship
 

 
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
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Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
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Matthew Keys / The Desk:
DirecTV terminates its Dish acquisition after a group of Dish creditors rejected a modified bond exchange offer

 
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