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Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
LinkedIn to open up to developers — I talked to LinkedIn founder and Chairman Reid Hoffman on Friday at the Supernova 2007 conference about Facebook's rapid growth and potential incursion into his territory. He told me that over next 9 months LinkedIn would deliver APIs for developers …
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Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
LinkedIn Opening Platform — Last night I received a tip: LinkedIn is considering opening their platform to developers. If true, this would be huge news. While a bit skeptical, there are a few reasons that this could actually be taking place. Since Facebook opened their platform almost a month ago …
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Yahoo Merges Ad Sales Units; Wenda Harris Millard Leaves To Join MSLO — Yahoo's chief sales officer Wenda Harris Millard is leaving the company. paidContent.org has learned that she is joining Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (MSLO) as the [Chief Media Officer] President, Media.
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Yahoo! to Combine Search and Display Advertising Sales Teams to Better Serve its Advertising Partners — Promotes David Karnstedt to Lead Unified Team as Head of US Sales — SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO - News), a leading global Internet company …
Abbey Klaassen / AdAge:
Wenda Harris Millard Exits Yahoo for Presidency at Martha Stewart — Search Vet David Karnstedt Takes Over all U.S. Sales, as Web Giant Restructures — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Starting today Yahoo will have a different look to Madison Avenue without its top North American saleswoman.
David Chartier / Download Squad:
Plaxo 3.0: Bringing web and desktop PIM together like never before — For about a month now, the kind folks at Plaxo have allowed us to play with the beta of Plaxo 3.0, a major update to their unique service that takes the 'management' out of desktop + online PIM.
Laura M. Holson / New York Times:
Hollywood Seeks Ways to Fit Its Content Into the Realm of the iPhone — The iPhone doesn't go on sale until Friday, but Steven P. Jobs, the chief executive of Apple, is already changing the perception of the mobile phone, from a quick way to call a friend to a hip, media-friendly device.
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Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
VC Perspectives on the Facebook Platform: Andrew Chen, MDV EIR — Our Sand Hill interview series continues this week with Andrew Chen, Entrepreneur in Residence at Mohr Davidow Ventures. (Last week I spoke with Jeremy Liew, partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, to get his perspective.)
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Sarah Ellison / Wall Street Journal:
Dow Jones Deal Talks Intensify — Representatives of Dow Jones & Co. and News Corp. were in intense negotiations yesterday following a near breakdown in discussions over a proposal to safeguard the editorial independence of The Wall Street Journal, according to people familiar with the matter.
Maria Aspan / New York Times:
A Spurned Parody of 'Die Hard' Returns to YouTube, Approved — The story seems familiar to online video users: fans create a parody video using pirated studio content and post it on YouTube, and the studio's lawyers quickly have it removed for violating copyright law.
Eric Sylvers / International Herald Tribune:
Lower prices ahead for Wi-Fi access? — MILAN: With the proliferation of Wi-Fi hotspots, it has become possible to open a laptop and connect to the Internet in just about any major airport as well as thousands of hotels, restaurants, cafes and bars. Yet logging on can sometimes be onerous …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Boingo goes flat. And that's good — Looks like common sense is finally prevailing in the for-fee Wi-Fi business. — Boingo Wireless, a Wi-Fi aggregator is launching a flat rate Wi-Fi plan for the entire planet, which seems like a first step in Wi-Fi price war, and that is just great, repeat great news for the consumer at large.
Stephen Wellman / InformationWeek:
Free VoIP For Your Windows Mobile Smartphone — Fring, the free mobile VoIP service that works just like Skype, is now available for Windows Mobile 5 and Windows Mobile 6 smartphones. Get ready for some free mobile phone calls. — Here is a look at Fring for WinMo smartphones:
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Revision3 Raises $8 million From Greylock — Online video site Revision3 has raised an $8 million second round of financing, according to a source close to the deal, bringing the total capital raised to $9 million. Our understanding is that Greylock led the round.
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Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Twitter meets podcasting? — The other day I was thinking about other kinds of Twitters. The thing we like about Twitter is that you can't post a book-length story about what's going on right now, you can only do a 140-character synopsis — "I just got on BART" or "Driving to NoobCamp."
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