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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.
Kevin Newcomb / ClickZ:
Yahoo Announces Major Reorganization — Yahoo announced a sweeping reorganization Tuesday night, creating three operating groups and shuffling top execs. — As of January 1, the company will realign its operations into two customer-facing groups, one for audiences, and one for advertisers and publishers.
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Getting Granular
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Robert Hof / Business Week:Yahoo's Shakeup — In the wake of criticism that the Internet portal …
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New York Times, Charlene Li's Blog, Seeking Alpha, Silicon Valley Watcher, PaidContent and Slashdot
Valleywag:DRAFT OBIT: Terry Semel
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Tom Foremski: IMHO, Los Angeles Times, Mercury News, InsideGoogle, Bruce Clay, Inc. Blog, CNNMoney.com and PaidContent
John Paczkowski / Good Morning Silicon Valley:Hey Terry, ever hear the one about the CEO and the three envelopes?
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Yodel Anecdotal
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 …
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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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Good Morning Silicon Valley, TechCrunch, PaidContent, Somewhat Frank, John Cook's Venture Blog and Scobleizer
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.
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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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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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 …
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Slashdot
Michele Gershberg / Reuters:
Oz to bring social networking to mobile phones — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Privately-held Oz Communications, a maker of wireless messaging technologies, will announce on Wednesday a new product allowing people to access social network sites over their cellphones.
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.
