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Riva Richmond / Wall Street Journal:
Yahoo Shareholders Approve Board With Low Majority — Shareholders in Yahoo Inc. voted in favor of the Internet company's slate of directors. But with only 66% of votes in favor of the slate, it appeared that recent calls to rebuke board members responsible for approving generous pay packages …
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Marc Andreessen / blog.pmarca.com:
Analyzing the Facebook Platform, three weeks in — On May 24, Facebook launched the newest version of the Facebook Platform, a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) and services that allow outside developers to inject new features and content into the Facebook user experience.
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Josh / Redeye VC:
In and Out... Some portfolio company news today. — First, today we announced our investment in OpenAds, the developer of the leading free, open source adserving platform. Already used by more than 20,000 publishers across 140 countries in 20 languages, Openads powers more publishers than all competing solutions combined.
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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
OpenAds: A step in the right direction — I may be reading too much into this, but I take hope in a $5 million investment VCs made today in the company behind Openads, a free, open-source ad server. They already serve more than 20,000 publishers, 100,000 sites in 20-plus languages over 30-plus networks.
Barry Schnitt / Google:
Intel and Google Join with Dell, EDS, EPA, HP, IBM, Lenovo, Microsoft, PG&E, World Wildlife Fund and Others to Launch Climate Savers Computing Initiative — Broad effort organized to drive energy-efficient computing; goal to save $5.5 billion in energy costs and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 54 million tons per year*
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Maija Palmer / Financial Times:
Apple to sell music through UK Bebo network — Apple is tapping into the popularity of social networking sites, as it announces a deal on Wednesday to embed its iTunes internet music download service into the Bebo website. — From Wednesday, Bebo's 8.8m users in the UK and Ireland …
Charles Babcock / InformationWeek:
BioWare Adapts Complex Event Processing To Online Gaming World — BioWare is using StreamBase's Stream Processing Engine, which is able to analyze up to 350,000 messages per second, for tracking players' actions and movements. — Complex event processing, a new technology …
Thomas Claburn / InformationWeek:
Apple Clarifies Status of ZFS File System In Mac OS — Apple has included a read-only version ZFS in Leopard as a future file system option for high-end storage systems. — Apple now says that the ZFS file system will be available in the forthcoming Mac operating system, sort of.
Michael Calore / Compiler:
Wired News Benchmarks Show Safari 3 Is Slower Than IE 7, Firefox — Apple CEO Steve Jobs touted Safari 3's speed as one of its most appealing features. But in tests by Wired News, the first public beta of Safari for Windows is actually slower than both Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2 when accessing Ajax-intensive web applications.
Dennis McLellan / Los Angeles Times:
'Mr. Wizard' dies at 89 — Don Herbert, who explained the wonderful world of science to young baby boomers on television in the 1950s and '60s as "Mr. Wizard" and did the same for a later generation of youngsters on the Nickelodeon cable TV channel in the 1980s, died today. He was 89.
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Alden DeSoto / Google Analytics Blog:
You Asked For it, You Got It. New Features Added to Google Analytics — Since releasing the new Google Analytics, we've received repeated requests for specific features. We felt strongly that these features deserved to be incorporated into the product immediately so, as of today …
Joel Spolsky / Joel on Software:
Font smoothing, anti-aliasing, and sub-pixel rendering — Apple and Microsoft have always disagreed in how to display fonts on computer displays. Today, both companies are using sub-pixel rendering to coax sharper-looking fonts out of typical low resolution screens. Where they differ is in philosophy.
Xiyun Yang / Washington Post:
Reston's ComScore Hopes To Raise $71 Million in IPO — ComScore, a Reston firm that collects data on Internet consumer behavior, expects to raise as much as $71.4 million from an initial public offering of 5 million shares, the company said yesterday in a government filing.
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CNET News.com:
Google party at eBay event will protest Checkout ban — blog A Google-sponsored protest will be held at a Revolutionary War meeting place to promote Google Checkout as a option for eBay sellers. — Swedish court upholds file-sharing conviction — Appeals court backs verdict that fined …
GameSpot:
Square Enix CEO: 360, PS3 too complex — Talking up the DS and Wii, Yoichi Wada believes that the two next-gen consoles are 'over-engineered' and 'mismatched' to gamers' needs. — Square Enix dropped the bombshell in December that the latest in its Dragon Quest role-playing game series …
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Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Santa Rosa comes to the Mac: a review of the 17" MacBook Pro — Santa Rosa in the house — Apple MacBook Pro — Quick specs: 2.40GHz Core 2 Duo CPU, 2GB RAM, 160GB HD, 17" 1920x1200 LCD — Price as configured: $2,899 (shop for this title) — Since Apple made the great migration …
