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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Microhoo - The much ballyhooed talks are off — So much for the Goldman Sachs' arranged marriage of Yahoo and Microsoft. It didn't even merit an episode on Blind Date! The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the talks are well not happening. They had talked, briefly …
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Brier Dudley / Brier Dudley's blog:
Microsoft merging with Yahoo!?! #@!!! — The New York Post owes everyone a good follow-up story. — You can't just drop a bombshell that jerks around 80,000 Microsoft and Yahoo! employees, rocks Wall Street and then fizzles before the day is over. — The Post should investigate …
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
WSJ: Yahoo, Microsoft talks no longer active — The Yahoo-Microsoft talks are apparently no longer active, according to the Wall Street Journal, which just updated its story. — The Journal reports: … Earlier today, I asked whether this Yahoo-Microsoft chatter was for real this time.
Niall Kennedy / Niall Kennedy's Weblog:
Google Gadgets are now an AdSense unit — Webmasters will soon be able to auction off widget space on their sites and blogs managed and marketed by advertising powerhouse Google. Advertisers will produce a Google Gadget in standard IAB unit sizes for distribution across the Google network at CPC or CPM billing rates.
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Tameka Kee / MediaPost Publications:
Google Tests 'Gadget Ads' — GOOGLE HAS BEGUN BETA-TESTING "GADGET Ads"—interactive applications that advertisers can embed into Web pages, which will add a rich media solution to the search giant's suite of products. — Although Google executives revealed the beta during a marketing summit …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google In Talks To Acquire SimplyHired — Rumors surfaced today that Google is in discussions to acquire job search engine Simply Hired. Trip Chowdry, a research analyst at Global Equity Research first spoke about it, and the story was then picked up by Alarm:Clock.
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Google Negotiating Buy-out of Simply Hired — Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdry says that Google is stepping up its efforts to buy VC-backed SimplyHired. The job search engine most recently made news with the launch of its job-o-matic which creates widgets for bloggers to create …
Tyler Crowley / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
CalacanisCast 26 beta — Special guest: Digg's Jay Adelson and Electronic Frontier Foundation's Fred von Lohmann — Hello everyone, Tyler here - back with a podcast for your listening pleasure (read: no video) — In this episode, Jason speaks candidly with Jay and Fred regarding the recent DRM snafu.
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Jitendra Gupta / Read/WriteWeb:
What Happened at Digg? — The firestorm that erupted at Digg earlier this week over a censored post has led to a lot of discussion about the nature of censorship in a world where everyone is a publisher. Called "The Great Digg Revolt," by some, the incident illustrated how much power users …
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Darren Waters / BBC:
DRM group vows to fight bloggers — Bloggers "crossed the line" when they posted a software key that could break the encryption on some HD-DVDs, the AACS copy protection body has said. — Thousands of websites published the key, which had been uncovered in a bid to circumvent digital rights management …
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Podcasting News, Ars Technica, Neowin.net, Smalltalk Tidbits …, TechnoLlama, digg and Slashdot
Ryan Block / Engadget:
How-to: Use your TiVo Series3 eSATA port to add an external drive — Ever wish you could use that friggin eSATA port TiVo taunts you with on the back of your Series3? If so your moment has finally arrived — and not a moment too soon for many a DVR-loving TV fans whose drives are filled to the brim with HD programming.
BBC:
YouTube facing football lawsuit — The English Premier League is to sue video-sharing site YouTube for alleged copyright infringement. — The football organisation said YouTube had "knowingly misappropriated" its intellectual property by encouraging footage to be viewed on its site.
eWEEK.com:
Microsoft Poised to Rule Entertainment, Devices World — There are three ways to make money on an Xbox. Generally it's not on the hardware itself; we'll probably be gross margin neutral on that over the life cycle of the product and try to break even on that.
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I, Cringely . The Pulpit | PBS:
Lean and Mean — Last year I wrote a series of columns on management problems at IBM Global Services, explaining how the executive ranks from CEO Sam Palmisano on down were losing touch with reality, bidding contracts too low to make a profit then mismanaging them in an attempt to make a profit anyway …
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Sadagopan's weblog …, Between the Lines, The Raw Feed, Engadget, Liquidmatrix Security Digest, IBM Eye, Epicenter, Texas Startup Blog, digg and Slashdot
The Space Craft:
Windows Live Spaces Road Trip — We've got a really exciting opportunity to share. Windows Live Spaces, in partnership with MSN Live Earth is organizing a road trip across America. We would love for you to be involved. Below is the ad that will be running online and in college newspapers papers across the country this Friday.
