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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
It's Finally Official: eBay's Skype Has Bombed — eBay has finally acknowledged what has been obvious to the rest of the world for at least three quarters: the Skype acquisition gamble has failed. Among the news today: — Skype CEO Niklas Zennstrom officially gone (he's been virtually gone for months)
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Business Wire:
Niklas Zennstrom Steps Down as CEO of Skype — SAN JOSE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—eBay Inc. (Nasdaq:EBAY - News) today announced that Niklas Zennstrom has stepped down as CEO of Skype. Zennstrom, who co-founded Skype in 2003, will become non-executive chairman of the Skype Board of Directors.
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Tech Trader Daily, Techdirt, VoIP Watch, VentureBeat, IP Democracy, Download Squad, Engadget, Valleywag, TechCrunch and SiliconValley.com
Thomas Crampton / Media and Technology:
SCOOP: Zennstrom defends Skype while stepping down — October 1, 2007 - Niklas Zennstrom, CEO and co-founder of Skype, today stepped down from the company ahead of the scheduled work-through period for its acquisition by eBay. — Shortly before the public announcement of his departure …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Static On Skype, Zennstrom Quits — Niklas Zennstrom has resigned as CEO of Skype, but will become non-executive chairman of the company's board. Michael van Swaaij, eBay's (EBAY) chief strategy officer, has been appointed interim CEO until a replacement is found.
Janus Friis:(not) just another monday
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Reuters, mathewingram.com/work, Business Week, WebProNews, CNET News.com and Skype Journal
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:eBay: Skype wasn't all that after all — eBay confessed its Skype sins on Monday.
Techmeme News:
Techmeme Leaderboard is live — The Techmeme Leaderboard, that much-leaked list of Techmeme's top 100 sources, including blogs, non-blogs, and everything in between, is now up. It ranks sites, every 20 minutes, simply by the amount of headline space they've occupied on Techmeme over the past month.
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Publishing 2.0, Insider Chatter, Webware.com, TechCrunch, Bruce Clay, Inc. Blog, ProBlogger Blog Tips, ALLIED and franticindustries
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
TechMeme list heralds death of blogging? — I was just looking at the TechMeme Top 100 List and noticed that it has very few bloggers on it — I can only see about 12 real blogs on that list. Blogging being defined as "single voice of a person." Most of the things on the list are now done …
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
A new top 100? — Like almost everyone else, I keep track of who's pointing to me in Technorati, a service that was created in a Thanksgiving programming binge by David Sifry, based on the output of (my own labor of love) weblogs.com. — Technorati grew to become a blog search engine …
Ed Oswald / BetaNews:
Microsoft to Debut Zune 2 on Tuesday — Microsoft will hold a event on Tuesday in Redmond to herald the second generation of Zune music players, BetaNews has learned. — According to sources close to the situation, both Microsoft chairman Bill Gates and Design and Development chief J Allard will be on hand for the event.
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DailyTech, CrunchGear, Engadget, The Boy Genius Report, Forever Geek, Mashable!, greg hughes, jkOnTheRun and Gadgetell
Dave Clark / Joost™ Blog:
Hello Public — Big day for us at Joost — today Joost is drawing back the curtain and steppin' out. — Haven't been able to score an invite? Now it doesn't matter! Everyone can enjoy a ballooning selection of comedy, music videos, documentaries, movies and the latest hits …
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Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:Joost Launches: Video Interview With Mike Volpi
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John Markoff / New York Times:
Service Helps Friends Share Their Online Discoveries — Four software designers who were instrumental in the creation of Google's popular e-mail and mapping services have founded a new company with the intent of making it easy for people to find out what Web material their friends are enjoying.
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VentureBeat, paidContent.org, Search Engine Land, All Facebook, Soaring on Ridgelift and Google Operating System
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:FriendFeed To Aggregate Social Network Data Into A Single Feed
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Nokia:
Nokia to acquire NAVTEQ — The combined entity would create a leading global player in the fast growing location based services market — NAVTEQ to support existing customers as before — Espoo, Finland - Nokia and NAVTEQ today announced a definitive agreement for Nokia to acquire NAVTEQ.
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John Murrell / Good Morning Silicon Valley:They're asking $8 billion, but remember — location, location, location
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Nokia unlocks anti-Apple campaign — The quartet of posters above was photographed in New York city over the weekend by a MacRumors forum jockey. Of course, this isn't the first time we've seen Nokia pounce on Apple foibles, and it certainly won't be the last.
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Adobe:
Adobe Launches Flash Lite 3 — For immediate release — Flash Player for Mobile Devices Delivers High-Impact Video and Dynamic Web Content — ADOBE MAX 2007, CHICAGO - October 1, 2007 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq: ADBE) today announced the availability of Adobe® Flash® …
Josh Tyrangiel / Time:
Radiohead Says: Pay What You Want — Roughly 12,000 albums are released in an average year, so the announcement late Sunday night that the new Radiohead record, In Rainbows, will be out Oct. 10 is not itself big news. Sure, Radiohead is on a sustained run as the most interesting …
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Epicenter, Wall Street Journal, last100, Pitchfork, Billboard, PSFK, Silicon Alley Insider, paidContent:UK, Reuters, Digital Daily, Wikinomics and FierceMobileContent
Tad / The Virtual Ubiquity Blog:
Adobe to Acquire Virtual Ubiquity — We've got some exciting news to share today. At Adobe's annual MAX conference this morning, it will be announced that Adobe Systems has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Virtual Ubiquity. The acquisition is expected to close by the end of the year.
KathrynV / dslreports.com:
AT&T Censors Customers' Negative Opinions — Don't respond to this post if you want to keep your AT&T connection — Most people don't read the fine print in their consumer contracts but those who do have noticed something about AT&T's new terms of service.
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GigaOM, Epicenter, Ars Technica, The Great American Blog, IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband, IP Democracy, TECH.BLORGE.com, p2pnet and Mashable!
