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4:40 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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Elise Ackerman / Mercury News:
Big shakeup at Yahoo
Discussion: VentureBeat and Geeking with Greg
Robert Hof / Business Week:
Yahoo's Shakeup  —  In the wake of criticism that the Internet portal …
Discussion: CNET News.com and Slashdot
Kevin Newcomb / ClickZ:   Yahoo Announces Major Reorganization
Valleywag:
THE POWER LIST: The definitive guide to Yahoo's players
Discussion: Paul Kedrosky's …
John Paczkowski / Good Morning Silicon Valley:
Hey Terry, ever hear the one about the CEO and the three envelopes?
Discussion: Charlene Li's Blog
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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Leslie Katz / CNET News.com:
Searchers think they are nearing missing CNET editor  —  Authorities searching the southwest Oregon wilderness for CNET editor James Kim said they believe they are close to finding the missing man, who has been stranded in a remote area for 10 days.  —  "This is frustrating; I mean we are so close …
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: Mathew Ingram and The Key
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Richard K / Silicon Valley Watcher:
12.6.06: Arrington: Kingmaker or sleazy journalist?
Discussion: Valleywag
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 …
Discussion: GigaOM
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 …
Discussion: CrunchGear, Apple Gazette, I4U News and digg
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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.
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 …
Discussion: Slashdot
 
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Business 2.0:
A toy story, YouTube-style
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MySpace to Apple: Fix that worm
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Brian Steinberg / Variety:
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