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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Breaking: Yahoo Acquires Zimbra For $350 million in Cash — Yahoo will announce the acquisition of open source online/offline office suite Zimbra this evening, we just heard through a very solid source. The price: $350 million, in cash, confirmed. — Our coverage of Zimbra goes back to 2005.
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Brad Garlinghouse / Yodel Anecdotal:
Zimbra is so damn cool — If you're a student at Georgia Tech or an employee at Digg or Mozilla.org, you know just how excellent your email and group calendaring experience is. That's because it's powered by Zimbra, creator of an innovative Ajax-based mail client that integrates email …
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blognation, The Register, Search Engine Journal, Geek Speaker, Google Operating System, Google Blogoscoped and BetaNews
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Yahoo Buys Zimbra for $350 Million — Yahoo is set to make yet another acquisition-this time of white-label open-source email provider Zimbra. Sources close to the deal said that the Internet portal will pay $350 million, considerably upwards of its most recent valuation, for the email and calendar provider.
Yahoo!:
Yahoo! Announces Agreement to Acquire Zimbra — Acquisition of Innovative E-mail Company Bolsters Leadership in Communications; Extends Expertise to Universities, Small and Medium-Sized Businesses and Service Provider Partners — Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO), a leading global Internet company …
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Associated Press, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Things That, DailyTech and Insider Chatter
Zimbra - Blog:
Yahoo! Acquires Zimbra — We are excited to announce today that Yahoo! is acquiring Zimbra to extend its email leadership to the University, Business and ISP markets. In order to focus on this effort, the Zimbra team will report to the communications group where we will remain fully committed …
Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
Times to End Charges on Web Site — The New York Times will stop charging for access to parts of its Web site, effective at midnight Tuesday night, reflecting a growing view in the industry that subscription fees cannot outweigh the potential ad revenue from increased traffic on a free site.
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Recovering Journalist, Mark Evans, mathewingram.com/work, UMBC eBiquity, CNET News.com, Silicon Alley Insider and Romenesko
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent.org:
New York Times To Close TimesSelect Effective Midnight Tuesday; Will Open Last 20 Years Of Archives — No more orange Ts on the content at NYTimes.com as of midnight Tuesday. We have confirmed that The New York Times (NYSE: NYT) Company is shutting down TimesSelect exactly two years …
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
MaxRoam, a low-cost alternative for mobile international calls — Pat Phelan, the Irish entrepreneur whose startup AllFreeCalls provoked major irritation in AT&T, has set out to put a burr in the pants of telecom giants once again, this time with a new wireless startup.
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:TechCrunch 40 Session 2: Mobile & Communications
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
TechCrunch 40 Session 4: Crowd Sourcing — We're live blogging each session, adding to the summary of each company direct from the floor of TechCrunch 40. Click Refresh to view. — Cake Financial — Cake Financial is a social investment service that lets people track all their investment portfolios in one place.
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
TechCrunch 40 Session 3: Community & Collaboration — Session three as follows, including our live notes. — Story Blender — Story Blender is an online collaborative video production platform where people can work together to "blend" their content into a new multimedia show.
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
TC40 Keynote Conversation: Mark Zuckerberg — Our live blogging coverage of the Keynote Conversation with Mark Zuckerberg, refresh for updates. — The boss (Michael Arrington) comes on stage to introduce Mark Zuckerberg. The conference space is packed: no matter what your views on Facebook …
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
TechCrunch 40 Session 1: Search & Discovery — Session one as follows, including our live notes. — Powerset — Powerset is a natural language search engine that can use everyday phrases and grammer to conduct more accruate web searches by understanding the search query and the pages it indexes.
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Todd Bishop / Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft, EU debate ruling's broader impact — Today's European court ruling against Microsoft also will have an "extraordinary impact" on the industry, by affirming broad powers for the European Commission to regulate companies, says Brad Smith, Microsoft's general counsel.
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Jordan McCollum / Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim:EU: Microsoft Is a Monopoly
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Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:
AOL Launches BlueString — AOL is launching a new collaborative multimedia story telling service called BlueString at TechCrunch 40. The site ,is a Flex application that lets you pull in all your image, video, and audio content from across the web and mix them together into a multimedia slide show presentation.
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
TC40 Keynote Speakers: Humble Beginnings — Our live blog of the Keynote Speakers: Humble Beginnings Sessions from TechCrunch40. — Sequoia's Michael Moritz introduces the three guests: Marc Andreessen, David Filo and Chad Hurley. — An amazing lineup: for those old enough …
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Digital Daily, Tech Talk with Dean Takahashi, Tech Trader Daily, Epicenter and Valleywag
