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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, 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 …
biz.yahoo.com:
Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement, Termination of a Material Definitive Agreeme — Item 1.01. Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement — On September 28, 2007, eBay Inc., a Delaware corporation ("eBay"), and its subsidiaries, Skype Luxembourg Holdings S.A.R.L. …
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, Skype Journal, WinBeta and eBay Strategies
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:eBay: Skype wasn't all that after all — eBay confessed its Skype sins on Monday.
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica: Bought with an arm and a leg, Skype bleeding cash and looking for new CEO
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:eBay Evaporates $1.43 Billion In Supposed Skype Synergies
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Associated Press
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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Insider Chatter, Webware.com, TechCrunch, Bruce Clay, Inc. Blog, ALLIED and franticindustries
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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 …
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 …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Techmeme Leaderboard To Launch, Attacking Technorati's Last Stronghold — Update: The leaderboard has launched. See it here. — Blog search engine Technorati's founding CEO is gone, its traffic party has ended and its core search functionality is under long term fire from competitors …
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, Engadget, The Boy Genius Report, Forever Geek, Mashable!, greg hughes, Gadgetell and jkOnTheRun
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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Webware.com, Epicenter, Bits, last100, CyberNet, JoostTeam.com, mathewingram.com/work, Contentinople, AppScout, MediaBytes with Shelly …, P2P Blog and Zatz Not Funny!
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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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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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.
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BetaNews, Epicenter, Compiler, CyberNet, Digital Trends, Microsoft News Tracker and RIApedia
Brian Caulfield / Forbes:
Google's Friends And Family Plan — The drumbeat has started in Silicon Valley: Google phones are coming. — It's no secret that Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) is keen to become a pivotal player in the mobile phone world. And one of the companies often mentioned behind closed doors …
