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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 …
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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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.
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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 …
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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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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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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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 …
Brian Caulfield / Forbes:
Worm In The Apple — Apple Chief Steve Jobs' not-so-secret plan to take over the world is going well. On the desktop, Apple's Macs are chewing away at Dell and Gateway's market share. The iPod has squashed Microsoft's Zune beneath its tank treads. Now the iPhone threatens to roll through …
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.
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 …
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 …
David Pogue / New York Times:
A Camera for Generation Z — For the first decade of the digital camera revolution, most manufacturers used only one carrot to dangle in front of prospective buyers: more megapixels. You felt inferior if your camera took three-megapixel photos when the latest models had five.
