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Times of London:
Yahoo! set to revive merger talks with AOL after rejecting hostile takeover — Yahoo! is seeking to restart merger talks with AOL as a means of defending itself against the $45 billion (£23 billion) hostile bid approach from Microsoft, The Times has learnt.
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Charlie Anzman / SEO and Tech Daily:
Yahoo is talking to AOL - This could work. — Take two ‘ailing’ but long-time, and heavily-visited portals and what do you get. A potentially viable poison pill defense for the Microsoft-Yahoo takeover. — The Times Online (UK) is reporting that Yahoo is in talks with AOL.
Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Yahoo and AOL: Desperation squared — The Times is reporting that Yahoo wants to restart merger talks with AOL as a way of avoiding the clutches of Microsoft, a move that — if true — is roughly equivalent to screaming “we're totally desperate” from the rooftops of Yahoo headquarters.
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Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / HipMojo.com:
Why a Yahoo! and AOL Merger Will Never Happen — Yahoo! and AOL are back at the table discussing a merger, supposedly, as both companies are caught between a rock and a hard place. — Yahoo! is being targeted by MSFT in an unsolicited $45B takeover bid. — AOL is persona non grata at Time Warner.
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Sony Ericsson's XPERIA X1 QWERTY with Windows Mobile and HSUPA — It's here, the XPERIA X1 QWERTY from Sony Ericsson. Yes, full QWERTY to make the most of that Windows Mobile 6 operating system. SE's new XPERIA brand will focus on multimedia and mobile web communication.
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Microsoft:
Microsoft Expands Consumer Reach of Windows Mobile Phones With Sony Ericsson — First Windows Mobile phone from Sony Ericsson offers a premium consumer and business experience. — Today at Mobile World Congress 2008, Microsoft Corp. announced that Sony Ericsson will deliver a new Windows Mobile phone …
Sony Ericsson:Sony Ericsson marks the launch of its new brand XPERIA&trade …
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Engadget, The Mobile Gadgeteer, mocoNews.net, jkOnTheRun and International Herald Tribune
Who da'Punk / Mini-Microsoft:
Microsoft's Yahoo! Acquisition is Bold. And Dumb. — Please, Yahoo!: fight to stay independent. Or at least tear yourself apart and pop a couple of poison pills to go out on your own terms before this goes much further. Yeah, I've got your double-suck cake for you: one layer Yahoo!, one layer Microsoft.
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ongoing:
XML People — XML is ten years old today. It feels like yesterday, or a lifetime. I wrote this that year (1998). It's really long. — The title was originally Good Luck and Internet Plumbing but the filename was “XML-People” and I decided I liked that better. I never got around to publishing it, so why not now?
Maria Aspan / New York Times:
How Sticky Is Membership on Facebook? Just Try Breaking Free — Are you a member of Facebook.com? You may have a lifetime contract. — Some users have discovered that it is nearly impossible to remove themselves entirely from Facebook, setting off a fresh round of concern over the popular social network's use of personal data.
Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
Apple applies for trademark extension relating to gaming — Might Apple have interest in gaming beyond its pokey iPod gaming offerings? Maybe, when you consider that the company has recently applied to expand its trademark into the realm of gaming. The new filing was made on February 5 …
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Clive Akass / Personal Computer World:
Storm worm ‘making millions a day’ — Compromised machines sending out highly profitable span, says IBM security strategist — The people behind the Storm worm are making millions of pounds a day by using it to generate revenue, according to IBM's principal web security strategist.
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
EA Working On Social Games Incubator; Along With CAA — Games behemoth Electronic Arts (NSDQ: ERTS) is going through a slew of changes, and one of the involved developing online ad-supported games, the first of which was launched last month. Now Gametap reports that a somewhat stealth unit …
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Newsosaur / Reflections of a Newsosaur:
Help wanted. Desperately. — Newspapers have lost more than half of their print recruitment revenues since the category hit an all-time high of $8.7 billion in 2000, the peak of the Internet bubble. — Though final numbers aren't in for 2007, print recruitment revenues will be lucky …
Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Publisher Tests Selling By the Chapter — Taking a cue from the music business, a major publisher today will begin selling the individual chapters of a popular book to gauge reader demand for bite-size portions of digital texts. — Random House Publishing Group's experiment appears …
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Joel Hruska / Ars Technica:
Bluetooth SIG to add 802.11 support for heavy lifting — Last November, we covered the Bluetooth SIG's decision to adopt WiFi technology as a stopgap measure while the organization waits on UWB technology to become readily available. The Bluetooth SIG formalized the move this weekend …
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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Record Label Quits, Uploads Albums onto The Pirate Bay — Dependent Records, an independent record label from Germany recently decided to shut its doors and upload all its albums onto The Pirate Bay. Interestingly, a year ago the the CEO of the label mentioned piracy as one of the main reasons why they decided to quit.
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