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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
eBay Acquiring StumbleUpon — High-flying startup StumbleUpon has been rumored to be in acquisition discussions since at least last November. Recently we've heard that talks have heated up again, with Google, AOL and eBay as potential suitors. A source with knowledge of the deal …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Why eBay wants Stumbleupon — Updated: TechCrunch just reported that StumbleUpon is in talks to being acquired with AOL, Google and eBay as possible suitors. Though we have not been able to chat with folks from StumbleUpon, the social bookmarking discovery service, we have heard that eBay is the likely winner of the derby.
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CNNMoney.com:
BlackBerry service back — Service problems disrupted e-mail traffic but the company says most service is restored. — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — A system failure knocked out BlackBerry service to millions of customers late Tuesday but the company said Wednesday morning that service for "most customers" was restored.
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Nick / Rough Type:
Intuit's cloudburst frustrates customers — Here's further evidence of why, as more computing moves onto the web, a broad, shared computing grid is both necessary and inevitable. The servers that TurboTax-maker Intuit uses to process electronically filed tax returns were swamped yesterday …
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Jordan Robertson / Associated Press:No Penalty for Tax Filers Hit by Glitch
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Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Yahoo's Earnings Are Down 11 Percent — Yahoo's top executives have been focused this year on an effort nicknamed Panama, after the vast canal project undertaken in the face of adversity. It is a major overhaul of the company's search advertising system, intended to increase revenue and close …
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Alex Pham / Los Angeles Times:Yahoo's quarterly earnings fall 11%
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Karen / Official Google Blog:
Searching without a query — You already know that search is at the core of everything we do: we want to deliver useful and relevant information every time you do a search. But what about when you don't have a query in mind, or if you just don't feel like typing in a query?
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Chris Sherman / Search Engine Land:Google Offers "Queryless Search" & Personalized Recommendations
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DigiTimes:
HTC to ship Google handsets by year-end — High Tech Computer (HTC) is now manufacturing Google handsets with shipments officially commencing at the end of 2007, according to handset component makers. The makers also said the shipment volume will reach as high as one million units.
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:Google Phone launching end of 2007?
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Eric Case / Official Google Docs & Spreadsheets Blog:
How to make a pie — Posted by: Yoah Bar-David, Software Engineer, Google Tel-Aviv — I have a friend who is a great chef and owns a restaurant. A while ago he called and asked me in his mild French accent "how to make a pie." I can cook, and I do it quite often.
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Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
Exclusive: Facebook May Launch Local Classifieds — Facebook is considering the launch of a local classifieds service, a source told Mashable. Under the proposed system, it would be free to list items in your own network, and cost a few dollars to post to each additional network.
David Filo / Yodel Anecdotal:
Don't even leave a footprint — Jerry Yang and I just announced at our quarterly employee all-hands that Yahoo! has committed to going carbon neutral this year. Essentially, that means we're going to invest in greenhouse gas reduction projects around the world to neutralize Yahoo!'s impact on the environment.
Toshiba:
Toshiba commercializes Industry's Highest Capacity Embedded NAND Flash Memory for Mobile Consumer Products — Achieves 16G capacity and also integrates controller function — TOKYO—Toshiba today announced that the company has commercialized a new series of embedded NAND Flash memory devices …
Alan Sipress / Washington Post:
Patently at Odds — Drug and Tech Sectors Battle With Reform High on Agenda — Two of the country's leading industries, computer technology and drug manufacturing, are battling over an effort by Congress to overhaul the way inventors profit from ideas, with executives on both sides saying billions of dollars are at stake.
Jon Udell:
Talking to everyone: the framing of science and technology … Very true. What's more, I believe this tribe is, over time, growing farther away from the rest of the world. That's happening for an interesting and important reason, which is that the tools we are building and using …
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Bungee Labs - Next Generation Web Development Platform — Yesterday in the Web 2.0 Expo booths, I checked out Bungee Labs - an ambitious new on-demand, web-based development environment that enables developers to build and deploy web apps that utilize the large variety of APIs and web services out on the Internet.
Andrew Orlowski / The Register:
The VoIP wars: air supply is an optional feature — Mobile carriers seek to choke new market — Truphone boss James Tagg says his fledgling company will ask Ofcom to intervene if mobile networks continue to cripple VoIP-capable handsets. — Another VoIP provider told us today that Orange …
Business Wire:
eBay Inc. Announces First Quarter 2007 Financial Results — Reports Record Q1 Net Revenues of $1.77 Billion — Delivers Q1 GAAP Diluted EPS of $0.27 and Non-GAAP Diluted EPS of $0.33 — Raises Full Year Guidance — SAN JOSE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—eBay Inc. (Nasdaq:EBAY - News …
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The Doc Searls Weblog:
No stay of execution for Internet radio — Sheila Lennon treats us to one of the most linkful and comprehensive explorations of Internet radio's scheduled May 15 execution by the Vogons at the Copyright Royalty Board, which decided on Tuesday to deny motions by Internet radio suppliers to let their industry live.
