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Yahoo, Please Put Up A Fight — Yahoo has lost about $20 billion in market cap over the last two years. The fight that it was supposed to put up against Google has been full of Brownian Motion, generating no real momentum. — Yahoo has a staggering 500 million users.
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Apple store down: pink iPod nano and Canadian iPhone rumors swirl — Yup, it's down again... on a Tuesday... just hours before they announce their quarterly financials. We've been hearing about new pink iPod nanos all morning which have apparently been shipped to big box retail locations.
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Christine Monaghan / Apple:
Apple Adds Pink to the iPod nano Lineup — Apple® today announced that it is adding a gorgeous new pink iPod® nano to the lineup of the world's most popular music player. The much-requested pink iPod nano is available immediately in an 8GB model for $199. iPod nano features …
Chris / LiveSide:
Windows 7 details emerge - look Software + Services — Right now everyone is getting excited over the apparent distribution of early Windows 7 builds to external Microsoft partners. One poster over at Neowin is claiming to have installed the build and while unsurprisingly its difficult to verify this …
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Long Zheng / istartedsomething:
Neowin.net forum member posts first review of Windows 7 Milestone 1 Build 6.1.6519.1 — Looks like it didn't take long for the first external build of Windows 7 to be leaked on to the interwebs. Black fumes were reported escaping Steven Sinofsky's office earlier this morning after news Microsoft …
Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:
Netvibes gets unnecessary social features — My favorite start page, Netvibes, is getting an interesting upgrade. The new “Ginger” version gets social features for sharing your start-page widgets and layouts, as well as a status feed reminiscent of Facebook and Twitter.
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Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Netvibes Grows Up — Netvibes, with today's release of the latest version of its personalized start page service, Ginger, thinks it finally sees a way to revenue. The three-year-old company, which has offices in Paris, London and San Francisco, aims to begin monetizing its technology through …
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BurstMedia:
Current Research You Can Use Consumers Shout “I Want My Online Video” — Video content — once reserved to restricted distribution and corporate scheduling — is now readily available on demand at your favorite Internet web site. The torrent of available video content online has been met …
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Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Shooting yourself in the foot: Time Warner's usage caps — Last week, we learned from a leaked memo that Time Warner Cable is preparing to roll out usage-based broadband service tiers to new customers in Beaumont, TX. The company has since confirmed its plans, with monthly bandwidth caps set at 5GB, 10GB, 20GB, and 40GB.
rim.com:
RIM Showcases BlackBerry Platform Enhancements at Lotusphere 2008 — Orlando, FL, Lotusphere 2008, Booth 516 - Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today announced a series of updates for its market-leading BlackBerry® platform that include enhanced messaging and collaboration …
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Stefanie Olsen / CNET News.com:
Life after Google, with millions — What would you do if you were flush with $10 million or $100 million? Would you retire, go to work every day at the company that made you rich, or chase other dreams? — That's the multimillion-dollar question for hundreds of early Googlers.
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Mylene Mangalindan / Wall Street Journal:
EBay Chief Whitman Plans to Retire — EBay Inc. Chief Executive Meg Whitman is preparing to retire. — In the past few months, Ms. Whitman, who has led the San Jose, Calif., Internet auctioneer since March 1998, has been delegating more daily responsibilities to her lieutenants and is completing …
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Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
MacBook Air Unboxed, Compared to Sony VAIO — Here you have the first MacBook Air unboxing: iPhone-styled tiny packaging, minimalist and all in smooth black. Not only that, but they were allowed to compare it to another thin laptop, a Sony VAIO (fight!) Akiko Wada, a Japanese blogger …
Justin Berka / Journals.ars:
Piper Jaffray lowers iPod estimates ahead of earnings call — Being a stock analyst is apparently a bit like being a weather forecaster, since no one really cares if you're a bit off. Such is the case with Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster, who has released a number of iPod sales estimates for the December quarter.
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