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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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Yahoo! Announces Agreement to Acquire Rivals.com, a Leading College Online Sports Site — Acquisition Expands the Editorial and Community Offerings of Yahoo! Sports — SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 21, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ — Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) …
Miguel Helft / New York Times:Yahoo Buying a High School and College Sports Network
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VentureBeat
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 …
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Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:Two Top Google Engineers Leave Google
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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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Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim
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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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CyberOrg:
Compiz-Fusion arrives — A new merged community around Compiz project would be known as Compiz-Fusion, details of the announcement here on Compiz Mailing List. — It is not just a new name, quitely behind the scenes developers have been working hard and have come up with some stunning enhancements.
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Hiroko Tabuchi / Associated Press:
CEO: Sony is shifting to recovery mode — TOKYO - Sony Corp. Chairman Howard Stringer promised Thursday to shift the struggling electronics giant from recovery to growth and to make the PlayStation 3 a profit driver despite its bungled rollout. — But investors at the company's annual shareholder meeting …
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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
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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Between the Lines
Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
Google says Vista search changes not enough — As we reported yesterday, Microsoft's "capitulation" to Google's antitrust complaint isn't as much a capitulation as the mainstream media was reporting. We inspected Microsoft's joint filing and found that Microsoft is not going to allow …
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
SiteFinder redux? Verizon tests DNS redirect service — Verizon has begun to use URL redirection services in some markets to "help" users when they mistype URLs. The service, called "Advanced Web Search," will provide a listing of links that may be relevant to what the user was trying …
Andy Beal / Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim:
Web Spend, Broadband Access, China Users - Research Shows All Going Up! — If I had a nickel for every internet study released, I'd be [a rich man] able to afford an extra shot of espresso in my coffee. Reuters has details of a new study from PricewaterhouseCoopers' Global Entertainment and Media Outlook …
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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.
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Kotaku
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Simple Spark: A Catalog Of Web Applications — New York based Simple Spark aims to make finding web applications easy through an extensive catalog of online application sites. — Over 3000 web applications are tracked and categorized with screenshots, icons, feeds, reviews and concise summaries.
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Fred Aun / ClickZ:
Social Nets Sit on Goldmine of Behavioral Data, Says Jupiter — Social networking sites are fertile ground for behavioral targeting, but publisher concern about privacy invasion is limiting growth, a JupiterResearch analyst said today. — Discussing JupiterResearch's U.S. Online Advertising Forecast …
Marc Andreessen / blog.pmarca.com:
The Pmarca Guide to Big Companies, part 1: Turnaround! — So you've been hired/promoted/brought out of retirement to become CEO of and turn around your NASDAQ/NYSE/LSE-listed 5,000+ employee software/semiconductor/media company that's recently been getting trounced by competitors …
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