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Alan / Participate Media:
Joining Yahoo! — I am excited to announce that I am joining Yahoo! to run Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com) as Vice President and General Manager. Yahoo! is also acquiring BuzzTracker.com and related technologies as well as bringing on all Participate Media staff.
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Day 59: Yahoo Buys BuzzTracker — Now, we're cooking with some gas over at Yahoo, closing in on the two-thirds point of Jerry Yang's declared 100-day March to Happiness. — Today, the Internet giant will announce the purchase of a clever Web site called BuzzTracker, which uses a combination …
Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Were Techmeme and Sphere too greedy? — Kara Swisher at All Things D reports that Yahoo has acquired a blog aggregator — or "meme-tracker" — called Buzztracker for the bargain price of $5-million or so. Not a bad payout for a site that appears to have been founded and run by a couple of guys.
TDavid / Things That:Since Yahoo can't buy Google News, settles for second rate BuzzTracker instead
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Robin Wauters / blognation Belgium:
First Look at Microsoft's Free Web Analytics Tool 'Gatineau' (With Slides) — SHARE THIS — I wasn't expecting any notable announcements at Web Analytics Day, an annual industry conference organized by Brussels-based web analytics agency OX2, but when Ian Thomas (Director …
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
SCO files for bankruptcy — SCO Group, best known for suing IBM, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. — In a statement, SCO said it was filing to reorganize under Chapter 11. — The Board of Directors of The SCO Group (history lesson) have unanimously determined that Chapter 11 reorganization …
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Brian Morrissey / Adweek:
Brightcove Narrows Focus — NEW YORK While it once had ambitions to compete with YouTube for viewers and ad networks for media dollars, Brightcove is now focusing squarely on its video technology. — As part of that push, the company will cease to develop its less than one-year-old video portal …
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CNET News.com:
Web ad blocking may not be (entirely) legal — Advertising-supported companies have long turned to the courts to squelch products that let consumers block or skip ads: it happened in the famous lawsuit against the VCR in 1979 and again with ReplayTV in 2001.
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I, Cringely . The Pulpit | PBS:
The Power of Six — I wrote a few weeks ago about Google's attempt to influence the rules for redeployment of the 700-MHz radio band in the U.S. for voice and data applications. Google said it would agree to pony up the $4.6 billion auction reserve price if only the FCC would first guarantee …
Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Invites Us Into Mash, Its New Social Network — A little more than two months after we first reported rumors about Yahoo!'s new social network Mosh, the company has given us a preview of a social network with a slightly different name: Mash. — The service includes features common to Facebook, MySpace, and My Yahoo.
Scott Woolley / Forbes:
The iFlop — Steve Jobs tried to design —and dictate—the future of television. Here's how he failed. — Steve Jobs, the Silicon Valley Svengali who gave the world geek chic in the form of the iPod, iTunes and the iPhone, looked ready to do it yet again last summer when he offered …
TorrentFreak:
The Biggest Ever BitTorrent Leak: MediaDefender Internal Emails Go Public — When we reported in July that an Anti-Piracy Gang Launches their own Video Download Site to Trap People and that the company was called Media Defender and, as anyone who aims to be a credible news resource would, we checked and double checked our sources.
Inquirer:
Google readies PowerPoint killer — Slideshow program will be with you, Presently — SURE AS EGGS ARE EGGS, it's been known for a long while that Google will at some point take on PowerPoint with a web-based presentations package. The breaking news is that the coming-out party for the software is any day now.
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Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
First Prince, now Village People target YouTube — Somebody combined the Village People's hit song, "YMCA," with footage of a dancing Adolf Hitler and posted the clip to YouTube. Now the company that owns the rights to the band's music is preparing to sue YouTube.
Brandon Hill / DailyTech:
Apple Activates $100 Offer For Early iPhone Customers — Apple's $100 store credit offer for iPhone buyers goes live — When Apple announced that it cut the price of the iPhone by $200 to $399, there were many irate customers yelling at their computer screens.
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / eWEEK.com:
What the Hell Is Microsoft Doing with My Computer? — Opinion: Microsoft is sneaking "updates" into my PCs. What the heck! — Listen carefully. They're my computers. They're not your computers. I choose to put Windows on some of them. I choose what applications go on them.
