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My new job — The title of Chief Yahoo takes on new meaning today. I have the great honor of stepping into the role of Yahoo!'s Chief Executive Officer. Yahoo! has an incredibly bright future and I make this move with deep conviction and enthusiasm. I've partnered closely …
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Yahoo! Co-Founder Jerry Yang Named Chief Executive Officer — Terry Semel Named Non-Executive Chairman — Sue Decker Named President — Yang and Decker to Focus on Realizing Yahoo!'s Strategic Vision by Accelerating Execution, Further Strengthening Leadership and Fostering a Culture of Winning
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Yahoo Shakeup: Why Now? Yahoo Execs Talk; Decker: No More Division Heads — Note: Full audio of the call can be downloaded from the link below. — The analysts/investors' call is underway and Terry Semel is framing that answer as a personal decision as much as a personnel decision …


Yahoo's Chief Resigns, and a Founder Takes Over — When Yahoo hired Terry S. Semel as its chief executive in the midst of the dot-com implosion in 2001, it became a bit of an oddity in Silicon Valley: a technology company run by a Hollywood executive. — Now, as Yahoo is being eclipsed …
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Google Press Day 2007 — Today (from 10:00 - 16.20 CET) Google is holding their press day event in Paris. Marissa Mayer, Eric Schmidt, Urs Hölzle as well as the YouTube founders will be there, and there may be some product announcements. I'm in Paris and will be live-blogging the event for you here.
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Feds Need A Warrant To Search Email — Remember just last week we were looking at a court case that was trying to work out whether social networking messages were more private than email? Well, now a federal appeals court has strengthened the privacy of good old email as well.
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Appeals Court Says Feds Need Warrants to Search E-Mail
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YouTube makes international move — YouTube has announced international versions of its web video service. — The video site, owned by Google, has launched nine versions across Brazil, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain and the UK.
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YouTube Starts Local Sites in Brazil, Japan, Europe (Update2) — Google Inc.'s YouTube, the most- popular video-sharing Web site, started nine local versions of the site in countries including Brazil, Japan and the U.K. to build its audience worldwide. — Local sites have also been introduced …
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2007: The year of "The Real Internet" — I know that 2006 and every year that came before it was supposed to be "the year of the mobile web". Maybe it's time to change that a little. 2007 will be the year of "The Real Internet." — As with most things mobile, "The Real Internet" …
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Opera Mini 4 beta now available — Opera Software today released Opera Mini 4 beta, codenamed Dimension, the much-awaited sneak preview of the newest version of Opera's pioneering Web browser for all mobile phones. Opera Mini 4 beta is a complete redesign of the world's most popular mobile Web browser.

Site Downtime / New Features — Hey everyone - quick post to let you know that in the midst of going live with some back-end upgrades as well as our new comments system, the site has had a longer than expected outage tonight. We're deep into the fixes and should have them done soon.
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The Pmarca Guide to Startups, part 1: Why not to do a startup — In this series of posts I will walk through some of my accumulated knowledge and experience in building high-tech startups. — My specific experience is from three companies I have co-founded: Netscape …

Study: Inkjet printers are filthy, lying thieves — A new study says that on average, more than half of the ink from inkjet cartridges is wasted when users toss them in the garbage. Why is that interesting? According to the study, users are tossing the cartridges when their printers …

Australia announces vast national broadband plan — Australian Prime Minister John Howard on Monday announced a 2.0 billion dollar (1.68 billion US) plan to provide fast and affordable Internet access across the vast country. — Howard said Optus, the Australian offshoot of Singapore telco Singtel …

Customer Service Hell!! T-Mobile...Hot Spot? NOT!!! — "Stick Together" — The Irony is coming - read on!! — I can't believe it!!! Over the past few months I've launched a blog all about the power and value of the customer voice in the web 2.0 world.


33 Ways to Watch Free TV Online — It's time to toss the old tube to the dumpster. Well, not if you have one of those 47" plasma ones, but...you know what we mean. The future of media is the Internet, and television is no exception. Instead of browsing through the channels with your remote …
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Microsoft Enhances Virtual Earth Product in Great Britain With High-Resolution 3-D Height Data From Intermap Technologies — Update Delivers a More Seamless and Accurate 3-D Experience — REDMOND, Wash. & DENVER—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Microsoft Corp. and Intermap Technologies Corp. today announced …
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