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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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New York Times, blognation, InfoWorld, Squash, Jeremy's Blog, CyberNet Technology News, Between the Lines, Read/WriteWeb, Ross Mayfield's Weblog, Ars Technica, BloggingStocks, Download Squad, Insider Chatter, WebProNews, Beet.TV, HipMojo.com, TechBizMedia, Texas Startup Blog, Business Week and Silicon Valley Watcher
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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 …
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 upward 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, Things That, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, DailyTech, Insider Chatter and Compiler
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, Techdirt, Mark Evans, Silicon Valley Blog, Joe Duck, Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard, CNET News.com, ResourceShelf, alarm:clock, UMBC eBiquity, mathewingram.com/work, everwas, ParisLemon, Silicon Alley Insider, Anil Dash, kottke.org, if:book, O'Reilly Radar and Romenesko
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Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
Facebook, Accel and Founders Fund Launch fbFund; To Give Grants To Facebook App Startups — During his keynote conversation with Michael Arrington this afternoon at the TechCrunch40 conference, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company will be launching a new entity called fbFund with Accel and Founders Fund.
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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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Digital Daily, Business Week, Between the Lines, HipMojo.com, Tech Trader Daily and GigaOM
Attila Bodis / Official Google Blog:
Our feature presentation — In April we announced that we were working to bring presentations to Google Docs. (Astute readers may recall learning about this even earlier, which caused a bit of excitement around here.) And today we're unveiling the new Google Docs presentations feature …
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Mashable!
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Google Completes Office Triple Play With Presently — Google has officially launched the missing piece in Google's online office suite: Presently, a presentation product that competes directly with Microsoft PowerPoint. — We've know it's been coming for a long time …
Nathan Weinberg / InsideGoogle:Google Presentations Finally Arrives!
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Search Engine Land
Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
MC Hammer has a new company - DanceJam — MC Hammer, one of the original rap artists, has a new company called DanceJam. I first met Hammer 7 years ago when I was at Napster. MC Hammer is a music artist, but he is also a businessman. He understood the potential of Napster, and sees another opportunity with dance videos.
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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Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
Techcrunch40: Day 1 Recap and My Top Picks! — Alright, so Day 1 of Techcrunch40 is complete and I wanted to give you my thoughts and feedback on the day overall, the organization, and the startups. — Hera are some other sites with excellent coverage from the event: — ReadWriteWeb
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Read/WriteWeb
Brad Stone / New York Times:
MySpace to Discuss Latest Effort to Customize Ads for Members — LOS ANGELES — Members of the booming social network Web sites treat their individual profile pages as a creative canvas for personal expression. — The social networking companies see those pages as a lush target for advertisers …
Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
What's in a name? In Web 2.0, confusion — The TechCrunch40 conference, which is being put on by my pals Mike Arrington and Jason Calacanis, sounds like a great show, and is clearly packed with launches and demos from interesting Web 2.0 companies. With that caveat out of the way …
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.
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Webware.com, Associated Press, Widgets Lab, Download Squad, Digital Daily and Somewhat Frank
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
TechCrunch 40 Session 4: Crowd Sourcing — Session four as follows, including our live notes. — Cake Financial — Cake Financial is a social investment service that lets people track all their investment portfolios in one place. The service allows individual investors to track …
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Cake Financial, HipMojo.com, Digital Daily, Tech Trader Daily, Somewhat Frank and Epicenter
