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Kevin Kelleher / GigaOM:
Who should buy Yahoo? Handicapping 5 likely suitors — At least Yahoo can't complain this week about Google grabbing all the headlines. — While Google has been dishing out the usual morsels of news - tweaks to Google Video, YouTube and Google Office - everyone else can't stop talking about Yahoo.
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USA Today:
AT&T girds for iPhone launch on June 29 — For consumers eager to get their hands on an Apple iPhone, here's the good news: It will be available in all 1,800 AT&T phone stores at 6 p.m. sharp on June 29. — The bad news? "We fully expect one or more of our stores to run out of stock …
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Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
Internet radio to go silent on June 26? — If you depend on the sounds of Internet radio to get you through your workday, don't be surprised if your headphones pipe out little more than dead air next Tuesday. — In protest of the elevated royalty fees Webcasters are poised to begin owing …
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Brendan Sinclair / GameSpot:
Sony, Nintendo forbid AO-rated Manhunt 2 — Console-makers confirm policies preventing licensed third parties from releasing Adults Only games on their systems, effectively banning the Rockstar title. — When Take-Two Interactive yesterday confirmed that the Entertainment Software Rating Board handed …
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BBC:
Banned video game is 'fine art' — The US publishers of a video game banned in the UK and Ireland have described it as a "fine piece of art". — Take Two chairman Strauss Zelnick said the game had his full support and that consumers should decide for themselves.
Agence France Presse:
'Blog', 'cookie', 'wiki' top list of hated Internet words: poll — LONDON (AFP) - "Blog", "netiquette", "cookie" and "wiki" have been voted among the most irritating words spawned by the Internet, according to the results of a poll published Thursday. — EU body to expand Web search probe, write to Google
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Two top Google engineers leave — to Benchmark Capital — Two more high-level Google engineers have left the Googleplex — this time to join well-known venture capital firm Benchmark Capital. — Bret Taylor (left) and Jim Norris (right), two of the masterminds behind Google Maps and several …
USA Today:
Tech blogs go from hobbies to businesses — ATHERTON, Calif. — "Om (Malik) and I love scotch," Michael Arrington says. "But we never drink anymore." — The two friends no longer have the time or energy, in part because they're too busy competing with each other.
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Danal, another mobile payments company, launches — Danal, a company that wants to let young people use cellphones to make payments without owning a credit card, is about to launch in the U.S. with a separate subsidiary, according to the WSJ. — It lets you buy downloadable music or other digital goods …
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Forbes:
EU says Apple has responded to iTunes deadline; EU 'studying it carefully' — BRUSSELS (Thomson Financial) - The European Commission said Apple Inc responded to a midnight deadline yesterday in relation to antitrust concerns over the pricing of songs on its iTunes online music store.
Reuters:
Sony to boost PS3 software to reverse slump: Nikkei — TOKYO (Reuters) - Sony Corp. (6758.T: Quote, Profile, Research) expects a sharp increase in the number of games released for the PlayStation 3 this business year, in a move that should help the game console's slumping sales …
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Michael Tiemann / Open Source Initiative:
Will The Real Open Source CRM Please Stand Up? — Dana Blankenhorn's story How far can open source CRM get? has finally pushed me to respond to the many people who have asked "When is the OSI going to stand up to companies who are flagrantly abusing the term 'open source'?" The answer is: starting today.
Google:
A New Way to Pay - Google Expands Pay-Per-Action for Google AdWords™ — Google announced today the worldwide expansion of its pay-per-action advertising beta. Pay-per-action is a new pricing model that allows advertisers to pay only when a pre-defined action is completed on their site …
Graham Holliday / Press Gazette:
BBC reporter tours Turkey in social media experiment — The BBC has dispatched reporter Ben Hammersley to spend two weeks using new social media web tools to cover the run-up to the July general election. — He will visit four cities and report for BBC World, World Service radio, News 24 and BBC News online.
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Yahoo! Search Marketing Blog:
Short Descriptions Now Live — Ad descriptions longer than 70 characters on Yahoo! in the U.S. will now be cut off — Starting today, ads that appear in U.S. Yahoo! Search results with descriptions longer than 70 characters will be cut off ("truncated") at the nearest complete word, followed by an ellipsis.
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Miguel de Icaza:
Implementing Silverlight in 21 Days — The past 21 days have been some of the most intense hacking days that I have ever had and the same goes for my team that worked 12 to 16 hours per day every single day —including weekends— to implement Silverlight for Linux in record time. We call this effort Moonlight.
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Mark Hachman / PC Magazine:
Proposed Amendment Would Ban All DVD Copying — The proposed amendment was made public in a letter sent by Michael Malcolm, the chief executive of Kaleidescape, a DVD jukebox company which successfully defeated a suit by the DVD Copy Control Association (DVD CCA) this past March.
