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Vonage Holdings Corp. Chief Executive Officer Steps Down — HOLMDEL, N.J., April 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Vonage Holdings Corp. (NYSE: VG - News), a leading provider of broadband telephone services, today announced that Michael Snyder stepped down from his position as Chief Executive Officer …
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Jeffry Bartash / MarketWatch:
Founder takes over Vonage in big shift — Under pressure over Verizon suit, company to restructure — WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Jeffrey Citron, the controversial founder of Vonage Holdings Corp., reassumed leadership of the embattled Internet-phone company on Thursday and unveiled steep cost cuts …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Can PhotoBucket Survive Without MySpace? — There was a lot of fingerpointing, denials, and "he said, she said" going on today as everyone digested the news that MySpace had blocked PhotoBucket's 40 million members from embedding videos into their MySpace pages.
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Paula Lehman / Business Week:
MySpace Plays Chicken with Users — The popular social network is showing third-party widget makers—and its users—who really decides what content gets added to pages — Late on Apr. 10, photo-sharing site Photobucket began receiving complaints from users that slide shows and videos …
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Angus Kidman / APC:
Windows XP to be phased out by year's end despite customer demand — Computer makers have been told they'll no longer be able to get Windows XP OEM by the end of this year, despite consumer resistance to Vista and its compatibility problems. — By early 2008, Microsoft's contracts …
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Engadget, TechBlog, CrunchGear, Compiler, SYNTAGMA, All about Microsoft, The Tech Report, TechSpot News, Good Morning Silicon Valley, Slashdot and digg
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Google's acquisition strategy should think small (and mobile) — When it comes to Google's acquisition strategy the search giant may be better off playing small ball. — Sure Google's purchase of dMarc and YouTube are significant deals that get a lot of attention-lately as potential busts in the making.
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Frank Taylor / Google Earth Blog:
New Google Maps Feature - 2.5D Buildings — Google is yet again adding features to Google Maps which bring it closer to Google Earth. In February Google added building outlines to major cities when you zoom in close. Now Google has added 2.5D buildings to some of those cities for Google Maps.
Ogle Earth:
Google Maps repurposes Google Earth's 3D content — Convergence between Google Earth and Maps continues: Highest zoom levels in Google Maps for 38 US cities now sport 2.5D buildings, repurposed from Google Earth's default 3D layer, like so: — It's not Microsoft's Bird's Eye view …
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David Kaplan / paidContent.org:
CBS To Announce Deals With AOL, MSN, Joost; In Talks With NBC U-News Corp: Report — CBS could announce as early as today deals to distribute its TV shows and other video programming via MSN, AOL and Joost, WSJ reports. CBS would be the first major network to have such an arrangement with Joost.
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Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
Joost scores first deal with major broadcaster, CBS — CBS has been something of a leader in embracing new distribution models for content, turning to embrace webcasting back when few major players were interested. Now CBS is at it again, this time hooking up with Joost, the P2P "Internet TV" platform spearheaded by the Skype guys.
Kate Holton / Reuters:
EMI and Beatles settle royalty dispute — The company representing The Beatles has settled a 30 million-pound ($59 million) royalty dispute with EMI Group (EMI.L: Quote, Profile , Research), in a deal that could finally pave the way for the Liverpool band's music to go online.
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Robert Andrews / paidContent.org:Beatles Settle With EMI, iTunes Back Catalogue Soon?
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Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Yahoo Close To Acquiring Rivals.com; Price Could Reach Nine Figures — You're reading it here first: Yahoo is close to making its biggest sports acquisition after, well, the Broadcast.com deal: the college sports network Rivals.com, paidContent.org has learned.
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
DRM, lock-ins, and piracy: all red herrings for a music industry in trouble — A British media research company has peered into the music industry's crystal ball, and the outlook for the next couple of years isn't so hot. Global music sales will drop to $23 billion in 2009 …
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Paul R. La Monica / Media Biz:Apple changes its iTune?
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MacUser, Crave, Infinite Loop, CyberNet Technology News, Gadgetell, Download Squad, gracefulFlavor, Blackfriars' Marketing, Gizmodo and CrunchGear
Victor Keegan / Guardian:
To the average Joe, blogs aren't cutting it — This month's state of the blogosphere survey by Technorati, the monitoring service, was greeted as if it were the online equivalent of the President's State of the Union address. It undoubtedly reveals a fascinating array of statistics …
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Watching the Apple TV... Just was catching up on my reading of TechCrunch, among other feeds, and saw that Apple is giving video producers some suggestions of ways to make things look good on both Apple TV as well as iPods. — I've been watching a TON of Internet videos with my son the past few days.
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TechCrunch, MAKE Magazine, Podcasting News, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim and Lost Remote
Andrew Shebanow / Shebanation:
The Death of UI Consistency — Yesterday, John Gruber posted a gripe about the new CS3 panels and palettes and how horrible it is that Adobe put the close box on the right side. To John, this seemed horribly un-Mac-like, and in trademark style he concludes his gripe with an elitist …
