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Yahoo! Q2 2007 Earnings Call Transcript — Executives — Analysts — Presentation — Operator — Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the Yahoo! Q2 2007 earnings conference call. (Operator Instructions) I will now turn the call over to Ms. Marta Nichols.
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Brij Singh's One More Idea
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Yahoo to lay out strategic plan in next 100 days — Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang made his earnings conference call debut on Tuesday and said the next "100 days or so" will be spent mapping out the strategic plan for the company. — Yahoo, which reported its second quarter results and cut projections …
Staci D. Kramer / paidContent.org:Earnings: YHOO Revenue Up 8 Percent; EPS Even With Last Year's Q2
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Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim
Angel Jennings / New York Times:
Web Site for Job Seekers Is Sold — Laurel Touby turned her popular cocktail parties into a high-traffic Web site for job-seeking media and creative professionals. Yesterday, she sold Mediabistro.com, the company that sprang from those mixers, for $23 million.
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Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Media Jobs Site Mediabistro Sold To Jupitermedia For $23 Million — After a long auction process and going through multiple suitors, almost giving up on the process, and coming close to selling to at least one of them, the media jobs, events and info site Mediabistro has been sold to Jupitermedia …
The Precursor Blog by Scott Cleland:
Why the FTC Will Likely Block the Google-DoubleClick Merger — My detailed analysis over the last several weeks leads me to believe that the FTC is likely to block the Google-DoubleClick merger because it will enable Google to dominate online advertising and dramatically increase the opportunity …
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Will The FTC Block Google's Acquisition Of DoubleClick? — Scott Cleland, an analyst at the Washington, D.C. based telecom research group Prescursor has published a 35 page paper "Googleopoly: the Google-DoubleClick Anti-Competitive Case". The paper argues that the US Federal Trade Commission …
Susan Arendt / Game | Life:
Confirmed: Peter Moore Leaves Microsoft for EA — Major Nelson has confirmed that Peter Moore is leaving Microsoft to become President of EA Sports. Ironically, he'll be replaced by Don Mattrick, a former EA President. — The decision was apparently prompted by Moore's desire to move …
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Inquirer, The personal website …, Xbox Live's Major Nelson, Xbox 360 Fanboy, Blue's News and WinBeta
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Wall Street Journal:
Dow Jones Board Approves Sale — Backing of News Corp. Offer — Puts Pressure on Family; — A Bancroft Exits Meeting — The board of Dow Jones & Co. voted to approve News Corp.'s $5 billion bid for the company last night, with two directors abstaining from the vote and one leaving the meeting early …
Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
SocialMedia is a new kind of widget ad network — Seth Goldstein and David Henderson have teamed up with one of the leading Facebook application developers and launched SocialMedia: part widget developer, part widget hosting provider/ad network. Along with Lookery, the company …
Charlie White / Gizmodo:
Eye On You: Google Streetview Camera Car Fleet Set to Invade America — A camera-toting tipster saw what appeared to be a giant armada of Chevy Cobalt cars in the Google parking lot, getting ready to take pictures of the entire world (or thereabouts) with special 360° cameras.
Keith Stuart / Guardian:
"I'd close World of Warcraft!" MUD creator Richard Bartle on the state of virtual worlds — A couple of weeks ago I promised an interview with Richard Bartle, co-creator of the original Multi-User Dungeon (or Domain if you prefer) set up back in 1978 at the University of Essex.
fudder:
The very first iPhone — In late June, the [iPod] iPhone hit the US market. Apple aficionados queued for days to be first in line to get their greedy little paws on the long awaited gadget. fudder-employee Marc Esslinger is an Apple-fan as well - also because he has a very special relationship to Apple.
Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
Last Harry Potter leaks online — The new Harry Potter novel — Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — has hit the Internet days before its publication. The publisher spent a reported $20 million on keeping the book secret. Was the money well-spent? As Bruce Schneier points out …
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Schneier on Security
BBC:
EU backs standard for mobile TV — European officials have backed a single standard for the rollout of mobile TV services across Europe. — Telecoms commissioner Viviane Reding has called on member states to roll out services using the DVB-H standard "as quickly as possible".
Matt Richtel / New York Times:
SunRocket Users May Lose Service and Payments — Telephone service could be lost for more than 200,000 customers of SunRocket, an Internet telephone company that said on Tuesday that it had gone out of business, according to a person involved in its liquidation.
