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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.
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.
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:eBay: Skype wasn't all that after all — eBay confessed its Skype sins on Monday.
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Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica: Bought with an arm and a leg, Skype bleeding cash and looking for new CEO
Andy Abramson / VoIP Watch:Management Shake Up At Skype
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Wall Street Journal, Deal Journal, Skype Journal, IP Telephony, VoIP, Broadband and Mac Beach
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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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.
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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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, Contentinople, AppScout, MediaBytes with Shelly …, mathewingram.com/work, Zatz Not Funny! and P2P Blog
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, Google Operating System and A VC
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The Barbarians Are At The Gate, But Microsoft Moves To Protect Office Revenues — The barbarians are at the gate, a new horde is on the way, but no one seems to be defending the castle. Instead, the Microsoft Office warriors are rebranding, repackaging and relaunching old products and calling them new.
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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 …
