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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Breaking: Yahoo To Shut Down Yahoo Photos In Favor Of Flickr — I am at the annual Outcast CEO Dinner event - Brad Garlinghouse (Yahoo SVP Communications & Communities) and Stewart Butterfield (Cofounder Flickr) are sitting at my table and told me that they will announce the closure of Yahoo Photos tomorrow.
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Verne Kopytoff / The Technology Chronicles:
Yahoo jettisons Photos in favor of Flickr — Yahoo Inc. plans to disclose Friday that it will shutter its popular Photos service and transfer users to Flickr, a competitor that the company acquired in 2005. — The move is intended to eliminate a redundant product and save on costs for the Web portal …
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Om Malik / NewTeeVee:
YouTube Starts Paying Star Users — YouTube is going to start helping some of its indie video content creators make money, starting tomorrow. The company will launch a program that puts the creators of some of the more popular YouTube channels — including Lonelygirl15, LisaNova, HappySlip …
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
YouTube Launches Revenue Sharing Partners Program, but no Pre-Rolls — The news, first broken by Om Malik and now live on the YouTube Blog, that YouTube has launched a revenue sharing Partners Program for its top content creators is a positive step forward for a service that only made $15 million …
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New York Post:
BILL'S HARD DRIVE — MICROSOFT EYES SEARCH GIANT IN PROPOSED TAKEOVER — Stung by the loss of Internet advertising firm DoubleClick to Google last month, Microsoft has intensified its pursuit of a deal with Yahoo!, asking the company to re-enter formal negotiations, The Post has learned.
Philipp Lohmann / GullFOSS:
Sun Microsystems joins porting effort for OpenOffice.org for Mac — I'm excited to let you all know that as of now Sun engineering will add its support to the ongoing Mac/Aqua porting effort. — The MacOSX porting history is basically as old as OpenOffice.org itself.
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Forbrugerstyrelsen:
Press release: Danish Complaint Case may have Global Consequences for Apple — A ground-breaking decision by the Consumer Complaints Board may have crucial consequences for Apple and for thousands of Apple laptop users all over the world — In a specific complaint case …
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Jan Chipchase:
Extreme Personalisation — An unexpected surprise of last week's Istanbul visit was coming across these working Nokia phones hacked/customised by Mehmet Erkök, industrial design lecturer at stanbul Teknik Üniversitesi's Department of Industrial Product Design.
Peter Kaplan / Reuters:
UPDATE 1-Court denies Vonage bid for patent case retrial — WASHINGTON, May 3 (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court has denied a request by Internet phone company Vonage Holdings Corp. (VG.N: Quote, Profile , Research) that it order a retrial in the patent infringement case brought …
Ed Felten / Freedom to Tinker:
Why the 09ers Are So Upset — The user revolt at Digg and elsewhere, over attempts to take down the now-famous "09 F9 ..." number, is now all over the press. (Background: 1, 2) Many non-techies, including some reporters, wonder why users care so much about this.
Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
Joost Is Error-Prone — Apologies to all of you who've requested invites to Joost. We'd love to let you into the service, but over the past few days we have had trouble launching the application ourselves. I'd had no problems running earlier versions, but these days can't even get the thing to start.
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Ccoc / Colin's Corner:
EIC Change at PC World — As has been widely reported in the media, Harry McCracken, the EIC of PC World has resigned. I have huge respect for Harry, thank him for all his contributions over the years and wish him well. I am hopeful that Harry will continue to write for PC World on a freelance basis.
Yahoo! Local & Maps Blog:
MacArthur Maze Detour Update — In response to the I-80 and I-580 freeway connector collapse in the San Francisco Bay Area that occurred on Sunday, April 29, we responded quickly by removing these ramps from our mapping system on Monday. As a result, Yahoo! Maps is now offering alternative routes …
Jackson West / NewTeeVee:
Spidey 3 Online Ahead of U.S. Release — It's official: Spider-Man 3 has appeared online as an unauthorized download on public torrent trackers ahead of the release in theaters across the U.S. Just today, VCDQuality indexed two slightly different versions from the same source in China …
Joe Weisenthal / Techdirt:
The End Of The Security Industry Not So Unrealistic — Last week, security expert Bruce Schneier caused a bit of a stir when he said that there shouldn't be a security industry. While his comment engendered a lot of debate, it really wasn't a particularly radical statement.
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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
T-Mobile's cell-to-WiFi service to launch this summer — T-Mobile could be ready to launch its long-anticipated cell-to-WiFi service this summer, according to sources cited by the Wall Street Journal. The service, initially called "T-Mobile at Home," has been implemented in test markets since last year …
