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7:35 PM ET, September 14, 2007

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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.
Scott Moore / Yodel Anecdotal:
Yahoo! News tracks the buzz
Discussion: Download Squad and Searchviews
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Makes Tiny Acquisition: BuzzTracker
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 …
Discussion: InfoWorld and eWEEK.com
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PR Newswire:
The SCO Group Files Chapter 11 to Protect Assets as It Addresses Potential Financial and Legal Challenges  —  Reorganization ensures business as usual and that assets remain for continued support of customers and channel partners  —  LINDON, Utah, Sept. 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall …
Discussion: InfoWorld, Computerworld and Linux.com
Stephen Shankland / Underexposed:
SCO Group files for bankruptcy protection
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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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Google Presently Powerpoint Clone Could Be Days Away
Discussion: CrunchGear and Search Engine Land
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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David Vogelpohl / Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim:   Blocking Ad Blocking  —  Friends, family, and co-workers alike …
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 …
Discussion: HipMojo.com and Online Video Watch
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David Kaplan / paidContent.org:
Brightcove Ends Development Of Video Portal To Focus On Publishing Services
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 …
Discussion: MacDailyNews
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.
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Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0:
Microsoft dodging the real stealth update issues
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.
Discussion: Valleywag, Mashable!, Guardian, Techdirt and Digg
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.
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
An iPod touch ships without OS X — hints at disabled Bluetooth  —  You can argue that the iPod touch is an iPhone without the phone.  So what's an iPod touch without OS X?  You're looking at it.  That's Dave's swanky new iPod touch, fresh off the boat and out of the box with nothing more than a diagnostic utility.
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Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider:
iPod Touch unpacking tour and first look (photos)
Richard Siklos / Fortune:
Viacom's plan to be cool again  —  Left behind in the social media scene, the owner of MTV has some new stealth projects it hopes will allow it to catch up.  Fortune's Richard Siklos divulges the media giant's plan.  —  NEW YORK (Fortune) — Will Sumner Redstone ever get over being bested …
Six Apart:
Six Apart appoints Christopher J. Alden Chairman and CEO  —  Six Apart, the world's leading independent blogging services and software company, today announced that Christopher J. Alden has been appointed Chairman and CEO.  Alden succeeds Barak Berkowitz, who has served as Chairman and CEO since January 2004.
Discussion: GigaOM, TechCrunch and Valleywag
 
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Think Secret:
European iPhone to arrive in November
Discussion: Epicenter, Macworld and Tech.co.uk
Bill Day / Search Engine Land:
Local Search Finally Living Up To Its Promise
Discussion: LocalPoint
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Hacked GOP site infects visitors with notorious bot-making malware
James Rivington / Tech.co.uk:
Blu-ray camp responds to 51GB HD DVD claims
Discussion: Engadget and Engadget HD
Chris Lee / Ars Technica:
Quantum computing burns through another two graduate students
Discussion: The Register
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Sprint to pay $30 million in class-action settlement over USF
Discussion: The Register
Andrew Bub / GamerDad:
GamerDad Signal #1: GamerDad's Broken Heart
The Boy Genius Report:
AT&T Tilt drops some knowledge on us
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Odeo (Formerly SonicMountain) Acquires FireAnt
Joshua Karp / The Boy Genius Report:
Verizon quietly releases the Samsung i760
Dave Barth / Google LatLong:
More of the world for you to explore  —  Here's great news …
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Company patents playlists, sues everyone
Discussion: MacUser and Mashable!
Bill Ray / The Register:
O2 takes it to the EDGE
Discussion: The blognation
Laurence Benhamou / Agence France Presse:
Google, at age 10, is the official heart of the Internet
Discussion: Mashable!
Andrew Adam Newman / New York Times:
Marley Family's Vitriol Leads Verizon to Bite Back
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Google calls for international privacy standards