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Google Works to Torpedo Microsoft Bid for Yahoo — Standing between a marriage of Microsoft and Yahoo may be the technology behemoth that has continually outsmarted them: Google. — In an unusually aggressive effort to prevent Microsoft from moving forward with its $44.6 billion hostile bid for Yahoo …
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Official Google Blog:
Yahoo! and the future of the Internet — The openness of the Internet is what made Google — and Yahoo! — possible. A good idea that users find useful spreads quickly. Businesses can be created around the idea. Users benefit from constant innovation. It's what makes the Internet such an exciting place.
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Mark Cuban / Blog Maverick:
Why Yahoo should say Yes to MicroSoft — One thing about Jerry Yang that I always have admired is that he cares. He cares about his employees. He cares about his products. He cares about his shareholders. Most of all he cares about building a world class company that can be great at what it does.
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:Microsoft Writes Yahoo: BoomTown Decodes the Letter, So You Don't Have To!
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:Google launches its 'let's annoy Microsoft' plan: Pings Yahoo and works regulators
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
Yahoo axes music service, strikes deal with Rhapsody — It's been a tumultuous few days for Yahoo—you know, with that takeover bid from Microsoft—but the company continues to shake things up internally, too. — On Monday, the company announced that it will discontinue …
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Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Yahoo Sells Premium Music Service To RhapsodyAmerica; Buys FoxyTunes — Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), which has officially closed down its premium online music service Yahoo Unlimited (we reported on it first here), has sold the service to RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) and MTV JV company Rhapsody America …
BBC:
Overhaul of net addresses begins — The first big steps on the road to overhauling the net's core addressing system have been taken. — On Monday the master address books for the net are being updated to include records prepared in a new format known as IP version 6.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
The Industry Standard 2.0: Their Analysis, Your Predictions — The Industry Standard—the once high-flying, and then hardest-falling, magazine of the dotcom era—is relaunching today in a public beta, nearly seven years after the original media outlet went bankrupt.
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:Industry Standard relaunches — as a predictions market
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BBC:
Chips pass two billion milestone — The first chip to pack more than two billion transistors has been launched by silicon giant Intel. — The quad-core chip, known as Tukwila, is designed for high-end servers rather than personal computers. — It operates at speeds of up to 2Ghz, the equivalent of a standard PC chip.
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Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Vista SP1, Windows Server 2008 finalized — Microsoft has wrapped up development of two major products, Windows Server 2008 and the Service Pack 1 update to Windows Vista, CEO Steve Ballmer told financial analysts Monday. — “Both products have released to manufacturing today, which is good news,” Ballmer said.
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:Official: Vista SP1 released to manufacturing — headed your way... in March
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
No Super Bowl For Yahoo: Top Brass Weigh Their Limited Options — So apparently the Yahoo brass didn't take Microsoft's public offer to buy them as well as could be expected (hey, at least their shareholders finally got a break - the stock jumped nearly 1/3 on Friday).
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Lance Davis / Reg Developer:
Google Android - a sneak preview — What's in it for developers? — Google invited developers to its London office for one of three workshops - the others being in Munich and Tel Aviv to spread the word and teach developers how to write for their new OS.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Amid Yahoo Turmoil, AOL Makes An Acquisition — On Monday AOL will announce the acquisition of San Diego-based Goowy, a startup founded in late 2004 and which launched, incidentally, in my living room in late 2006 (we had a TechCrunch party where Goowy, Meebo, Sphere and other startups launched).
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Press Association:
Ships did not cut internet cable — No ships were present when two marine cables carrying much of the Middle East's internet traffic were severed, Egypt's Ministry of Communications has said, contrary to earlier speculation about the causes of the cut. — The ministry had originally stated …
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Jesse Robbins / O'Reilly Radar:Cable cuts, conspiracies, and lolsubs...
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Android SDK to get “significant updates,” $10M Challenge delayed — We already knew that the Android SDK was causing developers some frustration. So we're not really surprised to hear Quang Nguyen, Android Developer Advocate, say that based on feedback, “we've made significant updates …
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Noam Cohen / New York Times:
Is Obama a Mac and Clinton a PC? — STYLES make fights — or so goes the boxing cliché. In 2008, they make presidential campaigns, too. — This is especially true for the two remaining Democrats, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Reporters covering the candidates have already resorted …
