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Stop sharing spreadsheets, start collecting information — Posted by: Andrew Bonventre, Spreadsheets engineer and Michelle Lee, Spreadsheets designer — Today we're asking you to do something new: stop sharing spreadsheets. — Well... only sometimes, and only in certain situations.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Rumor: Is Google About to Buy Bebo For $1 Billion To $1.5 Billion? Or Will it Be MySpace? — An unconfirmed rumor has surfaced that either Google or MySpace is about to announce a big $1 billion to $1.5 billion acquisition in the social space. After checking around with multiple industry sources …
Ryan Singel / Threat Level:
Cable Cut Fever Grips the Web — Are underseas telecom cable cuts the new IEDs? — After two underwater cable cuts in the Middle East last week severely impacted countries from Dubai to India, alert netizens voiced suspicions that someone — most likely Al Qaeda — intentionally severed …
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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
No spin: Ars reviews the MacBook Air with solid state drive — The MacBook Air's high-end model comes with 200 extra MHz and a solid state drive. Is it worth the extra $1,300 to upgrade? We compare the two Airs directly to find out whether the price is worth paying.
Nicholas Carlson / Valleywag:
Leaked Yang memo calls for hard work, commitment, and anybody but Microsoft — In his latest companywide memo, copied below, Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang wants to “make sure you all realize how essential you are to yahoo!s success.” And by “you all” he means all but the 1,000 or so he planned to “reallocate” in the next few months.
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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Google Apps Team Edition aims to move companies to the cloud — Just like rogue employees in the 1990s forced instant messaging into corporations, the new Google Apps Team Edition being launched on Thursday offers a way for workers to slip a hosted apps service into the enterprise.
Megan McCarthy / Epicenter:
Show Me the Money! Dealipedia Wants to Unveil Secretive Business Deals — Michael Robertson, who made $115 million when he sold his startup MP3.com to Vivendi in 2001, wants every other entrepreneur to tell the world how much, or little, they pocketed during their business deals.
Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
“BigNews”: Ask's Digg Project Revealed (IACI) — Here's the Ask.com/Digg collaboration we'd heard about earlier this week, but it may be less than we'd advertised: “BigNews” is actually more of an attempt to create a new spin on Techmeme/Google News than a ripoff of Digg's social news site.
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Tim O'Reilly / O'Reilly Radar:
LinkedIn Announces New Research Platform — At the Money:Tech conference, Mike Gamson of LinkedIn announced their new line of business to provide primary research services to financial markets, the LinkedIn Research Network. — While the service isn't going live for several months …
Stefanie Olsen / CNET News.com:
Israeli upstarts follow money to Silicon Valley — MOUNTAIN VIEW—Israel is brimming with technology upstarts that want what Silicon Valley has—venture money, partnerships, and a bridge to the rest of the world. — On Wednesday, 15 Israeli companies showed off their technology to a group …
Bernard Lunn / ReadWriteWeb:
This Is Not Our Bubble — Back in early October I posted about coming economic storms and what entrepreneurs could do to prepare. Given recent news, it is now almost certain that we are in recession. The bad news from financial institutions and credit markets is like a steady drumbeat …
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Josh Catone / ReadWriteWeb:
A Guide to Billionaire Bloggers - And Some We'd Like to See — With the news today that billionaire investor Carl Icahn is getting ready to start blogging, we started to wonder what other billionaires blog. Sadly (or perhaps not so sadly), not many of them blog. Why should we care if a billionaire blogs?
Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
Obama loses Silicon Valley to Clinton: Is anyone surprised? — It must have come as a surprise to the boisterous Barack Obama supporters who were flagging down commuters at light rail stations south of San Francisco after work on Tuesday, but Hillary Clinton won far more votes in Silicon Valley than did her rival from Illinois.
Guy Yalif / Yodel Anecdotal:
Introducing all-you-can-eat web hosting — From plumbers to accountants, corner markets to day spas, Yahoo! has been proudly helping small businesses succeed online for more than eight years. Today we're taking our commitment to a new level and doing something we've never seen done before.
Brad Linder / Download Squad:
Why Windows 7 looks so much like Vista — Last month we posted a video and screenshots of what may or may not be Windows 7, the next version of Microsoft's flagship operating system. The company hasn't confirmed or denied the authenticity of these images, but many readers have been a bit... vocal about their doubts.
GigaOM:
Is BT Fusion Dead in the Water? — Written by Ken Young, whose own blog is called The UK Mobile Report. — BT has stopped marketing its Fusion handsets to consumers and is now testing a service that uses the same technology but would allow BT broadband users to access the web …
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