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Wall Street Journal:
Yahoo Studies Alternatives to Microsoft — Yahoo is holding out hope it can avoid Microsoft's bid by way of a possible rival suitor or a tie-up with Google that might allow it to stay independent. Video
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Decision Time For Yahoo — The dust is settling on Microsoft's $31 per share offer to acquire Yahoo, and the options left open to the company are fairly well understood at this point. There will almost certainly be no White Knight or other buyout offer coming to the table - the sorry state of the debt markets is assuring that.
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The Microhoo! hoo-hah — Microsoft's controversial bid for Yahoo! — THE “last day at work” video circulated by Bill Gates is trying to be funny, but for unintentional laugh-till-you-cry comedy, there is no beating the legendary effort by Mr Gates's chief executive, Steve Ballmer.
Steve Lohr / New York Times:Microsoft Adversary Rises Instinctively at Yahoo Bid
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Elizabeth Woyke / Forbes:
Google Likely Out, And Happy — After dominating the U.S. wireless spectrum auction for months, from influencing the terms of the auction to bidding, it looks like Google is off the hook. — Nine days into the closely watched Federal Communications Commission auction …
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Wall Street Journal:
Google Aims to Crack Chinese Market — Two years after Google Inc. began a big push in China, Baidu.com Inc. continues to dominate the country's Internet search market, thanks in significant part to a controversial and legally risky offering: searches for free, unlicensed music downloads.
Dean Takahashi / Tech Talk with Dean Takahashi:
Helio launches location-based entertainment with Buzzd — Helio, the U.S. arm of SK Telecom, is offering location-based entertainment on its cell phones in a partnership with Buzzd. The Buzzd service delivers editorially-driven reviews of nearby locations. Here's a link to video and the release is below:
Joseph Weisenthal / paidContent.org:
Earnings: IACI Q4 Revs Up 8 Percent; ‘New’ IAC Revs Would Be Up 21 Percent; Big Loss On Lending Tree — IAC (NSDQ: IACI) managed to get its earnings out after all... the internet conglomerate, locked in a court battle with Liberty Media (NSDQ: LINTA), reported Q4 revenue of $1.86 billion, up 8 percent year-over-year from $1.72 billion.
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Joseph Weisenthal / paidContent.org:Earnings: Time Warner Cable Q4 Revs Up 12 Percent; Net Income Up 23 Percent
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Tom Foremski / IMHO:
MySpace: Will its socialist-like approach to its social app developers succeed? — MySpace kicked off its developer program Tuesday by providing API's and development tools to tens of thousands of developers, with some unique diistinctions, and restrictions, that it hopes will result in high quality apps.
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Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:Notes from tonight's MySpace Developer Platform launch
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Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
Pirated by iTunes, Artist Turns to BitTorrent — The Flashbulb, aka Benn Jordan, became so outraged when he discovered that iTunes was effectively pirating his music, that he uploaded copies of his latest album to BitTorrent. TorrentFreak caught up with Benn to learn more about the decision …
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
AOL revenue continues to slide; Who are these 9.3 million AOL access subscribers? — AOL's revenue and operating income continued to slide as the parent Time Warner focuses on advertising. For the fourth quarter, AOL reported operating income of $274 million on revenue of $1.25 billion.
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Cory Bohon / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Facebook featured on new iPhone ad — Tonight, Apple released two new iPhone commercials in the standard iPhone-esqe style — Facebook and Cars. In these two commercials, Apple expounds on features that have already been introduced in older commercials. This is the first time that Apple …
Nick O'Neill / All Facebook:
Facebook Begins Suggesting Friends? — One of my readers just sent me an email about a new feature that he hadn't seen previously. I haven't seen this feature either. Apparently there is now a feature that “Suggests a friend to me.” I'm assuming that if there is a contact …
Stefan Constantinescu / IntoMobile:
Pictures: The Black Nokia N82 is official, finally! — Available only in the USA, $630. You can order it online here. — The 5 megapixel, xenon flash equipped, GPS, WiFi, HSDPA monster is finally looking a bit more respectable. — Update: After adding one into my shopping cart for purchase I was presented with this message:
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Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
How a BitTorrent Tracker Owner Hides from the MPAA/RIAA — Apart from The Pirate Bay guys, most tracker administrators are acutely aware of the risks they expose themselves to, and do everything they can to hide in the shadows. We speak to a tracker owner to find out the kind of measures …
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Nokia:
Nokia astonished by intention of NRW to attempt to recall subsidies from 1999 — Espoo, Finland - Nokia has received information from the North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) Bank that it and the NRW government plan to attempt to recall subsidies given to the company back in 1999. — Nokia is astonished by this.
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Video site Revver shopping itself for a song — Revver, a YouTube competitor that made a name for itself by paying video producers, has fallen on hard times. — The company's staff has dwindled to less than half the size it was 18 months ago, according to former employees.
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