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Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
More on Yahoo Reorg: Sue Decker's Memo — We got the full internal memo Sue Decker sent this afternoon to the team, on Yahoo's (Nsdq: YHOO) reorg..the full memo is here. See our earlier post on the reorg. Salient points from the memo: — Jerry and I and the rest of the management team …
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Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Yahoo's New President Oversees a Shake-Up — Susan L. Decker, Yahoo's new president, is putting her stamp on the company in a reorganization of its management ranks that creates a new division responsible for generating the bulk of the company's revenue. — The latest in a string …
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InsideGoogle, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Valleywag, Susan Mernit's Blog and Business Week
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Hey Kids! Let's Put On a Yahoo Reorg! — News is trickling in, but here's a short skinny on the upcoming Yahoo reorg I reported on earlier today. By the way, it will be announced later today I am told. — Indeed, as reported by Valleywag, Greg Coleman is out as its head of global sales …
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Valleywag, Silicon Alley Insider, Digital Common Sense, paidContent.org and Tech Trader Daily
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Hulu Translates To "Cease" and "Desist" in Swahili. Oops. — Congratulations are in order to YouTube-competitor Hulu, which took just five months to come up with a name after announcing itself in March. CEO Jason Kilar says the name "captures the spirit of the service we're building" in an open letter published today.
Kelly Fiveash / The Register:
Microsoft to buy chinwag platform Parlano — Reaching out to bag a chunk of the enterprise social [cough] networking market share, software mammoth Microsoft has acquired corporate group chat provider Parlano. — Chicago-based Parlano, a firm spun off from Swiss bank UBS …
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Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
Speculation: Facebook adding Friend Lists; implications for Top Friends, LinkedIn? — We knew it would happen, we just didn't know it might happen this soon. — I just received a tip from top application developer Trey Philips that Facebook has added two new undocumented functions …
Sony:
SONY UNVEILS FIRST U.S. WALKMAN VIDEO PLAYERS — Sony today took the wraps off two new Walkman® players that not only support audio - but for the first time in the United States - video. — The new NWZ-A810 and NWZ-S610 series of Walkman digital music players will support an open platform …
Daniel Langendorf / last100:
The Gphone is coming; how Google could rewrite the rules — Note: Gphone concept sketches by Lorin Wood. — If done right, the Gphone and not the iPhone will be the one to change the face of the wireless industry. — Apple's iPhone, at least in its initial release …
Scott Ferguson / eWEEK.com:
IBM Offering New Cell-Based Blade — IBM is expanding its Cell processor technology within the enterprise. — The Armonk, N.Y., company is announcing the availability of its new BladeCenter QS21 blade server Aug. 29, which is IBM's second blade platform to use its nine-core Cell processor technology.
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Economist:
The web: some antics — The long-promised "semantic" web is starting to take shape — FOR all the tricks that the world wide web can perform, it still resembles a collection of one-trick ponies rather than a concerted cavalry charge. You can book an airline ticket, hire a car at your destination …
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Amanda McPherson:
Linux Foundation Statement on OOXML — On September 2, the comment and voting period will close on ISO/IEC DIS 29500, the draft specification based upon Microsoft's Office Open XML formats (OOXML). The Linux Foundation (LF) has received questions from outside its membership regarding …
Lisa Leff / Associated Press:
Earthlink bows out of San Francisco Wi-Fi deal — The financially struggling Earthlink Inc. on Wednesday bowed out of a deal to join Google Inc. in providing free wireless Internet access throughout San Francisco, according to the mayor's office. — Earthlink Chief Executive Rolla Huff …
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WebProNews, Wi-Fi Networking News, GottaBeMobile.com, dailywireless.org and Houston Chronicle
Pat Phelan / Roam4free:
Our first press release — CORK, IRELAND, AUGUST 29, 2007 - Cubic Telecom, the innovative international telecommunications operator, today announced plans to become the world's first truly global mobile service provider. Cubic Telecom's service aims to eliminate the high cost …
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May Wong / Associated Press:
Calif. Startup Targets Music Fans — Startup Offers New Way for Music Fans to Reach Out to Artists, and Musicians to Respond — SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Being a groupie can be as easy as picking up the phone. — "I love you, Tyrese!" a female caller shouts in a message to the R&B singer.
