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Dan Sabbagh / Times of London:
News Corp explores swap of MySpace site for Yahoo! stake — News Corporation has discussed swapping MySpace, its internet social networking unit, with Yahoo! in return for a 25 per cent stake in the enlarged group. — The discussions remain tentative and could collapse after the departure …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Is MySpace Worth $12 billion? — It sure as hell might be. We've gotten independent confirmation of rumors circulating yesterday that discussions between Fox and Yahoo, where Yahoo would effectively buy MySpace for 25% of the stock in the combined entity, have occured.
New York Times:
After Shake-Up, What Now for Yahoo? — Should Yahoo stop trying to beat Google at its own game? Should it step up the pace and grow even larger through mergers and acquisitions? — As Jerry Yang takes over as Yahoo's chief executive, all eyes are on the next steps that Mr. Yang …
Peter Kaplan / Reuters:
Microsoft to change Vista after Google complaint — Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) has agreed to modify its Windows Vista operating system in response to a complaint that its computer search function put Google Inc. (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile, Research) …
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Search Engine Land, Insider Chatter, Google Blogoscoped, Reuters, Channel 9, The Next Net and gSpy
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Todd Bishop / Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog:Microsoft reaches Vista search compromise (Updated)
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Bloomberg, Ed Bott's Microsoft Report, Reuters, All about Microsoft, Bink.nu and Microsoft News Tracker
Apple:
YouTube Live on Apple TV Today; Coming to iPhone on June 29 — Best YouTube Experience on a Mobile Device — Apple® today announced that iPhone™ users will be able to enjoy YouTube's originally-created content on their iPhones when they begin shipping on June 29.
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IP Democracy, Gadget Lab, wirelessinfo.com Blog, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Apple Gazette, iLounge and Technovia
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Paul Miller / Engadget:YouTube hits Apple TV today, headed for the iPhone as well
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Erick Schonfeld / The Next Net:
Veoh TV: Turning the Web Into TV — Dmitry Shapiro is tired of hearing about Joost, the peer-to-peer Internet TV service launched by the founders of Skype. "Joost is your old man's TV," sneers Shapiro, the CEO of competing Web video service Veoh. By that, he means that Joost is merely replicating …
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Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:Veoh Launching New Online TV Service; Takes Streams From Content …
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Nokia:
Nokia organizes for the converging marketplace — Espoo, Finland - Nokia today announced that it will introduce a new company structure from January 1, 2008. The move, driven by Nokia's strategy, is aimed at creating an organization aligned with the opportunities Nokia sees for future growth …
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John Blau / InfoWorld:
Nokia rolls phone groups into single division — San Francisco (IDGNS) - Nokia plans to fold all its mobile phone development efforts into a single new business unit, reflecting the growing importance of its business of multimedia and Internet-enabled devices.
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Karen / Official Google Blog:
More sharing — We're pleased to announce that we've acquired the assets of Zenter, a company that provides software for creating online slide presentations. — You've heard us talk a lot about using the web to improve group collaboration and information sharing.
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Search Engine Land, TechCrunch, evhead, CNET News.com, Mark Evans, Search Engine Roundtable, Search Engine Journal, LucaFiligheddu.com, The Next Net, Insider Chatter, Googlified, VentureBeat, Read/WriteWeb, Google Blogoscoped, Between the Lines, paidContent.org, Microsoft News Tracker and 901am
Wily Ferret / Inquirer:
Quake Wars to sport ads — Apocalyptic war-torn future, buy Coke — SPLASH DAMAGE, developer of upcoming Quake title Enemy Territory, has announced that it will be displaying ads within the game itself. — In-game advertising is going to be big business if you believe analysts, and Splash is looking to get in on some of the cash.
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BBC:
Blackberry ban for French elite — French government officials have been ordered not to use handheld Blackberry devices amid fears that foreigners could spy on them, reports say. — Workers in the French president's and prime minister's office have been told their e-mails risk falling into foreign hands, Le Monde newspaper reports.
GamePolitics.com:
Pachter: Manhunt 2 Troubles Will Cost T2 Millions of $$$ — Tuesday was a day Strauss Zelnick and his new management team at Take Two Interactive would probably rather forget. — Manhunt 2, a title the Zelnick crew inherited from T2's previous administration, came back to bite the publisher early and often throughout the day.
Lessig News:
Required Reading: the next 10 years — During my keynote at the iCommons iSummit 07, I made an announcement that surprised some, but which, from reports on the web at least, was also not fully understood by some. So here again is the announcement, with some reasoning behind it.
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p2pnet, Center for Citizen Media, Boing Boing, The Technology Liberation … and Joi Ito's Web
Alex E / MyStoreSpace.com Company Blog:
MyStoreSpace launches at eBay Live! (But My Google Shirt rains on the parade) — Saturday, June 16th was quite an eventful day for our two-man startup. My co-founder and I attended the eBay Live! conference in Boston to promote the launch of MyStoreSpace.com, our next-generation web store builder …
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Search Engine Land, Google Blogoscoped, Valleywag, AuctionBytes Blog and Master of 500 Hats
Metroxing / TWO A DAY:
ZDNet Really, Really, Really Hates Apple & the iPhone — I understand that journalists want to be cynical and to claim "objectivity." But when 11 bloggers at ZDNET write over 50+ negative blog posts in a little over a week for a product NOT even out yet? What is that? Proof they are smarter than us? ...
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Gizmodo, Webomatica, The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs and MacDailyNews
PR Newswire:
Huge Growth Occurs In Online Video Use And It's Not All User-Generated Videos — LOS ANGELES, June 18 /PRNewswire/ — The results of a national online Magid Media Futures(TM) survey conducted the last week in March of 2007 have just been released, documenting the huge growth in popularity …
