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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Board To Determine Fate Of Company Today — Sources have indicated to us that Yahoo has scheduled a special board of directors meeting on Friday to determine, effectively, the fate of the company. After a week of hectic negotiating, it's clear that no one is going to step …
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New York Post:
YAHOO! PRICE TALKS — HOLDERS SQUEEZE M'SOFT — Yahoo!'s largest investor met yesterday with Microsoft boss Steve Ballmer and other executives in an effort to gauge whether the software giant is willing to increase its already sweet $44.6 billion takeover offer, The Post has learned.
Arik Hesseldahl / Business Week:
An Open Letter to Steve Ballmer — I know you want to make your mark on Microsoft, but you should stop trying to be all things to all people. Take a tip on focus from that other Steve — Dear Steve, — Let's talk over this Yahoo! (YHOO) thing before you move ahead. It's a profoundly bad idea.
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New York Times:
Is It Too Late for Yahoo? — SAN FRANCISCO — One of the first questions that Jerry Yang and his top lieutenants pondered after he became chief executive of Yahoo last summer was whether the company could remain independent. They quickly answered yes. — But Mr. Yang, who founded Yahoo along …
I, Cringely . The Pulpit | PBS:
The Men Behind the Curtain — It's a challenge for a journalist coming late to a story like Microsoft's proposed acquisition of Yahoo. I had literally just pressed the SEND key on last week's column when news hit the wire. What to do? The way things are structured at PBS I couldn't just pump …
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:Microsoft-Yahoo: The end game nears; Was there an Amazon-Yahoo deal in the works?
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Brandon Hill / DailyTech:
Update: Dell to Stop Selling AMD-based Inspirons Online — Dell says goodbye to AMD-based Inspirons on Dell.com — It appears that the AMD-Dell relationship may soon be coming to an end - at least online. Dell was rumored for years to consider switching to AMD processors for its computers …
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Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
House Approves Bill To Require Universities To Offer Students Music Services — Late last year, we wrote about a bill that would put pressure on universities to put in place an official approved music subscription service or risk losing federal financial aid support for students.
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Staska / Unwired View:
Blackberry patents: Angled Slider and RIM Multi-Touch technology — The information that Blackberry 9000/9100/9900 devices are coming is old news, as well as the speculation that RIM is working on the next generation of consumer friendly Blackberries. — The rumors that RIM Blackberry …
spicu.com:
The look & design of the new Apple Macbook Pro 2008 series — The new Macbook Pro is coming the next days! — Apples special event is upcoming this month and what everybody expects is the new Macbook Pro that we are all are waiting for! — Till now nobody knows how the new Macbook Pro will look like …
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Out of the box 1.1.3 iPhones now software unlockable — Mr. GEOrge HOTz did it again. He just loosed a world of hurt on AT&T with a software unlock for 1.1.3 iPhones. That's right, the software is said to work on any fresh from the Apple store, shrink-wrapped iPhone sporting the latest 1.1.3 firmware and 4.6 bootloader.
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
Is mobile really a sure thing for Google? — news analysis Google sees mobile as its future, but the company's success in the mobile realm may not be a slam dunk. — With half the world's population soon owning a cell phone, the opportunity to reach more people on the Web via a mobile device is huge.
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Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Chinese Professor Suing Google And Yahoo For Making Him Disappear From Chinese Search — We've seen plenty of lawsuits over the years from people who were upset over how Google ranked them in search results, but here's an interesting twist on that idea. Guo Quan, a professor in China …
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
RIAA president “simply musing” about filters on your PC — Yesterday we covered RIAA President Cary Sherman's idea to move content filtering out of the network and onto the home computer. His goal is to avoid the encryption that will likely make network filtering useless …
Bryan Gardiner / Wired News:
Like Apple, Intel Wants to Put the ‘Internet in Your Pocket’ — Borrowing a phrase that Apple CEO Steve Jobs used when introducing the iPhone last year, Intel wants to put the “internet in your pocket.” — For Apple, that meant a top-down, years-long project to create the ultimate consumer fetish object …
ChangeWave:
Seismic Shift To Smartphones — ChangeWave survey shows consumers abandoning basic models for advanced RIM and Apple phones — Record numbers of consumers are abandoning their basic cell phones for more-advanced models, according to the latest ChangeWave consumer cell phone survey.
