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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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Miguel Helft / New York Times:Yahoo, Aiming for Agility, Shuffles Executives
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John Paczkowski / Good Morning Silicon Valley:Hey Terry, ever hear the one about the CEO and the three envelopes?
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Charlene Li's Blog
Henry Blodget / Internet Outsider:Yahoo Shake-Up Good News; Decker Can Handle It
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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.
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 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 …
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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," …
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.
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.
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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?
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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.
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 …
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 …
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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.
LC Angell / iLounge:
DLO offers HomeDock Pro — Digital Lifestyle Outfitters (DLO) has introduced the HomeDock Pro, a new version of its iPod home docking solution. Targeted at custom home entertainment installers, the HomeDock Pro allows users to view and navigate an iPod's music and videos directly on a TV screen.
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.
