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2:20 PM ET, December 6, 2006

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Terry Semel / Yodel Anecdotal:
Taking Yahoo! forward  —  When I joined Yahoo! five years ago, I found a company with incredible assets (huge audience, strong brand, healthy balance sheet), great potential, and a team filled with determination and a fighting spirit.  But the company faced challenging economic conditions …
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Yahoo! Re-Aligns Organization to More Effectively Focus on Key Customer Segments and Capture Future Growth Opportunities  —  New Structure to Focus on Serving More Sophisticated Demands of Audiences, Advertisers and Publishers Worldwide  —  SUNNYVALE, Calif., Dec 05, 2006 (BUSINESS WIRE) …
Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Yahoo, Aiming for Agility, Shuffles Executives  —  Yahoo said Tuesday that it was restructuring its operations and shuffling its management ranks amid growing criticism in and outside the company that it had become too bureaucratic to compete effectively against nimbler rivals.
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
Robert Hof / Business Week:
Yahoo's Shakeup  —  In the wake of criticism that the Internet portal …
Discussion: Slashdot
Kevin Newcomb / ClickZ:   Yahoo Announces Major Reorganization
Valleywag:
DRAFT OBIT: Terry Semel
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Los Angeles Times:
Yahoo's CEO makes big changes at the top
Discussion: PaidContent, Valleywag and CNNMoney.com
Andy Abramson / VoIP Watch:
Yahoo Doing In Voice?
Discussion: Alec Saunders .LOG
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Two top Yahoo execs to leave in reorg
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Om Malik / GigaOM:   Spam is sucking life out of Email
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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Live Search's WebLog:
Live Search Books Beta Release  —  Several new enhancements of note from the Search team: Tomorrow we're releasing the beta version of Live Search Books (http://books.live.com).  Check out the user experience: very clean!  With this initial release we've focused on making the reading experience as natural as possible.
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Satellite to be rerouted in James Kim search  —  A commercial satellite-imagery company said Tuesday it is rerouting one of its satellites to fly over the Oregon wilderness where rescue crews search for CNET editor James Kim.  —  GeoEye's Ikonos satellite will fly over the Western seaboard …
Discussion: Joe Duck, Gizmodo and Tech_Space
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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 …
Discussion: CrunchGear, Apple Gazette, I4U News and digg
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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.
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Business Wire:
Amazon Invests in Wikia Series B Financing: Amazon's Value-Added …
Discussion: GigaOM
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
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," …
Discussion: Valleywag
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 …
USA Today:
Google offer takes on PayPal  —  MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google is offering merchants free use of its online payment service as it squares off against eBay's market-leading PayPal.  —  The Internet search giant introduced Google Checkout in June, with sweeteners such as free ad credits for merchants.
Donna Bogatin / Digital Micro-Markets:
Crovitz on WSJ: 80-20 editorial rule in 2007  —  ALSO: PAIDCONTENT NYC BASH: NO BUBBBLE, GOOD NEW MEDIA BUSINESS!  —  Gordon Crovitz, Publisher, The Wall Street Journal, and President, Consumer Media Group, Dow Jones, took to the stage this evening with Rafat Ali for a Q & A at paidContent's "Mixer" in NYC.
firstmonday.org:
The Meaning of Friendship  —  What constitutes a friend?  In everyday vernacular, a friend is a relationship that involves some degree of mutual love or admiration.  Some people exclude sexual partners and family members from this category while others talk about how such an individual …
 
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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
John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:
PACKAGED GOODS MEDIA VS. CONVERSATIONAL MEDIA, PART ONE
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Ryan / CyberNet Technology News:
CyberNotes: 200 Firefox Extensions Installed At One Time!
Business 2.0:
A toy story, YouTube-style
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Microsoft Issues Word Zero-Day Attack Alert
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MySpace to Apple: Fix that worm
Groklaw:
SCO's Memo in Support of Motion for SJ: We Did Not Breach the GPL
Phil Hochmuth / Network World:
IEEE sets sights on 100G Ethernet
PR Newswire:
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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
A New York judge finds Sirius XM liable for a difficult subscription cancellation process; Sirius says it will appeal but abide by a new “click-to-cancel” rule

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
A growing number of podcasters, including Tim Ferriss, are moving away from interviews to monologues or co-hosts, as some well-known guests can be overexposed

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Sources: NBCUniversal Vice Chairman Bonnie Hammer plans to leave the company at the end of the year; she has been with the company since 2004

 
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