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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent.org:
It's Official: Yahoo Acquires Rivals.com; Not Official But True: It Cost About $100 Million — As we were first to report in early April, Yahoo was on the verge of acquiring college sports network Rivals.com. It took a few months to complete, finally closing after months …
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Associated Press:
HOLD FOR RELEASE 12:01 a.m. EDT (0401 GMT) Thursday. DO NOT PUBLISH, BROADCAST OR POST ON THE WEB BEFORE 12:01 a.m. EDT (0401 GMT) THURSDAY. — SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - It is not the blockbuster that some industry analysts envisioned, but Yahoo Inc. has sealed its first deal under new Chief Executive Jerry Yang.
Liz Gannes / GigaOM:
Leaked Story: Yahoo Buys Rivals.com — Yahoo will announce tomorrow it has bought collegiate sports site Rivals.com. The news is available due to what seems to be a publishing timing error on an Associated Press story by an Austrian web publication. — Yahoo is describing the deal …
Miguel Helft / New York Times:Yahoo Buying a High School and College Sports Network
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Apple buyout rumours circulate as iPhone launch nears — Can St. Steve move up a plane? — Scepticism about the launch of the Apple iPhone is growing, and it isn't helping the Apple share price. What a coincidence that exactly as things get tougher in the stock market …
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Apple:YouTube Live on Apple TV Today; Coming to iPhone on June 29
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Stephanie Kang / Wall Street Journal:
MySpace's Brad Greenspan to Seek Dow Jones Stake Via Dutch Auction — The former chief executive of the parent company of social-networking site MySpace says he will seek a non-controlling stake in Dow Jones & Co. through a $60-per-share "Dutch auction." — An investment group led …
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Sarah Ellison / Wall Street Journal:
Dow Jones Board Takes Over Talks on Future of Company — Dow Jones & Co.'s board of directors, frustrated with the pace of the Bancroft family's negotiations with News Corp., said it would take over talks on the future of the company. — The move, approved by the the four board members affiliated …
Jay Meattle / Compete Blog:
Digg overtakes Facebook; Both cross 20 million U.S. Unique Visitors — The first time I wrote about YouTube, it had just crossed 20 million visitors in the U.S. Just 4 days after my post, YouTube was scooped up by Google for $1.65B in Google stock. At today's stock price, the deal is worth over $2B.
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Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:Digg Overtakes Facebook with 1400% Growth, 22.6 Million Uniques
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More on Missing Women — This conversation stays interesting, and for me, has started to get very close to home. — Beautiful Bigotry — As in, check out Shelley Powers' Women Evidently Don't Program, motivated by the discovery that the about-to-be-published Beautiful Code …
Susan Wu / TechCrunch:
Virtual Goods: the next big business model — This guest post is written by Susan Wu, a Principal with Charles River Ventures, where she focuses on digital media, software, and infrastructure. Susan is coproducing the Virtual Goods Summit this Friday at Stanford University - most of the companies mentioned below will be presenting.
Aftenposten:
Opera Software boss hangs on to control — The founder of one of Norway's most successful high-tech firms, Opera Software, reportedly hung on to his power over the firm by firing Opera's board of directors before they could fire him. — Newspaper Dagens Næringsliv reported on Tuesday …
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Anjali Athavaley / Wall Street Journal:
A Job Interview You Don't Have to Show Up For — Microsoft, Verizon, Others Use — Virtual Worlds to Recruit; — Dressing Avatars for Success — It's now possible to meet with recruiters without actually showing up for a job interview. — Some employers are experimenting with Second Life …
David Kaplan / paidContent.org:
NAA Mid-Year Review: CareerBuilder Hopes McClatchy Remains, But Pullout Would Have Little Impact — Taking the podium Wednesday afternoon at the Newspaper Association of America's Mid-Year Review, Matt Ferguson, CareerBuilder's CEO, didn't have much to say about McClatchy's earlier musings regarding …
Jeffrey H. Birnbaum / Washington Post:
Learning From Microsoft's Error, Google Builds a Lobbying Engine — When it comes to lobbying, Google does not intend to repeat the mistake that its rival Microsoft made a decade ago. — Microsoft was so disdainful of the federal government back then that it had almost no presence in Washington.
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Judge deals blow to RIAA, says students can respond to John Doe lawsuit — A federal judge in New Mexico has put the brakes on the RIAA's lawsuit train, at least in the US District Court for New Mexico. The case in question is part of the RIAA's campaign against file-sharing on college campuses and names …
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Darren Rowse / ProBlogger Blog Tips:
10 Techniques I Used To Go From 0 To 12,000 RSS Subscribers In Seven Months - With No Ads Or Leverage — The following guest post has been submitted by Trent Hamm from The Simple Dollar — Hopefully, that title got your attention a little bit, but it's true. I launched The Simple Dollar at the very end of October 2006.
