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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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Silicon Alley Insider, IP Democracy, Engadget, Business Week, Download Squad, BeyondVC and TechCrunch
Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
Joost Launches: Video Interview With Mike Volpi — Joost, the impeccably pedigreed, funded, and hyped Internet TV platform is releasing its software to the general public on Monday. For those of you beta testers (like us) who've griped about the reliability and usability of the application …
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Epicenter, last100, Bits, CyberNet, Beet.TV, AppScout, Contentinople, MediaBytes with Shelly …, P2P Blog, mathewingram.com/work, Zatz Not Funny!, BoomTown and ParisLemon
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. …
Andy Abramson / VoIP Watch:
Management Shake Up At Skype — A big management change at Skype has occurred with Niklas Zennstrom resigning as CEO and Henry Gomez returning to eBay. — This tells me a few things. First that the eBay leadership is not happy with the direction Skype has been going and is looking …
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica: Bought with an arm and a leg, Skype bleeding cash and looking for new CEO
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:eBay: Skype wasn't all that after all — eBay confessed its Skype sins on Monday.
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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 …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Techmeme Leaderboard To Launch, Attacking Technorati's Last Stronghold — 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 like Google Blog Search, Ask.com and Sphere (among others).
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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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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Microsoft:
Microsoft Charts Its Software Services Strategy and Road Map for Businesses — Company introduces "Online" services and Microsoft Office Live Workspace, solutions that combine client, server and services offerings to deliver connected computing options for people and businesses.
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Computerworld, LiveSide, Take2, Microsoft News Tracker, Read/WriteWeb, New York Times, Technology Live and Download Squad
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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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 …
Ethan Smith / Wall Street Journal:
Radiohead Fans to Name Their Price for New Album — In an unusual test for the music industry's transition to digital sales, the superstar British rock band Radiohead said its much anticipated new album will initially be available only as a digital download on the band's Web site — with fans choosing the price they are willing to pay.
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Josh Tyrangiel / Time:Radiohead Says: Pay What You Want — Roughly 12,000 albums …
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Pitchfork, Billboard, Reuters, paidContent:UK, Wikinomics, FierceMobileContent, Laughing Squid and i-boy
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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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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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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Search Engine Land, TechCrunch, Soaring on Ridgelift, All Facebook, Google Operating System, Mashable! and A VC
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.
www.htc.com:
HTC unveils Q4 2007 device line-up — Demonstrates breadth of capability and innovation with launch of three new smart devices — HTC Corp. (TAIEX: 2498; "HTC"), the world's leading provider of Windows Mobile®-based smart devices and computers, today launched three new devices from its Q4 2007 product portfolio.
