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PR Newswire:
Microsoft Responds to Yahoo! Announcement — Reiterates Full and Fair Proposal for Microsoft-Yahoo! Combination — REDMOND, Wash., Feb. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT - News) today issued the following statement in response to the announcement by Yahoo! Inc. …
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Microsoft Responds to Yahoo! Announcement — Reiterates Full and Fair Proposal for Microsoft-Yahoo! Combination — REDMOND, Wash. — Feb. 11, 2008 — Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) today issued the following statement in response to the announcement by Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) …
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HipMojo.com, Guardian Unlimited, Epicenter, Search Engine Watch Blog, Guardian and LiveSide
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Microsoft: Yahoo's Response To Offer Is “Unfortunate;” Warns It Could Take Other Steps; No New Bid — Microsoft (MSFT) issued a statement this afternoon calling Yahoo's (YHOO) rejection of its $31-a-share takeover bid “unfortunate.” The company gave no signs of backing down …
Business Wire:
Yahoo! Board of Directors Says Microsoft's Proposal Substantially Undervalues Yahoo! — Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, today said the Yahoo! Board of Directors has carefully reviewed Microsoft's unsolicited proposal with Yahoo!'s management team and financial …
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Valleywag, VentureBeat, Good Morning Silicon Valley, Search Engine Journal, Google Watch, Epicenter, GeekBrief.TV, DVICE, Search Engine Land, TechCrunch, Bruce Clay, Inc. Blog, Salon, Big Tech, Brier Dudley's blog, New York Times, Bits, Tech Trader Daily, Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog, Mashable! and HipMojo.com
Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:Microsoft undeterred by Yahoo's rejection, will press on
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
HotOrNot Apparently Very Hot: Acquired For $20 Million — San Francisco based HotOrNot, founded by James Hong and Jim Young in October 2000, has been acquired, we've heard from multiple sources. — The buyers are investors connected with Avid Life Media, and paid somewhere around $20 million for the site.
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Dan Frakes / Macworld:
10.5.2 update shows Apple listens to users — Over the years, Apple periodically comes under fire for not listening to its customers—specifically, for deciding on particular features (or a lack thereof) and then sticking by its guns regardless of the reaction. Although some of this criticism is off-base, some of it is spot-on.
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Mudbug / MacRumors:
Mac OS X (Leopard) 10.5.2 Update Released — Apple has released the Mac OS X 10.5.2 Leopard update. The 180MB download is now available via Software Update, and a restart is required after installation: — The 10.5.2 Update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Leopard …
Glenn Fleishman / Wi-Fi Networking News:
T-Mobile Loses Starbucks; AT&T Becomes Wi-Fi Hotspot Giant — Big news, and I had not an inkling of it, lest you think your loyal correspondent always has the inside track: Starbucks is shredding its deal in place since 2001, originally with MobileStar then T-Mobile, to switch to AT&T as their Wi-Fi provider.
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Tech Beat, E-Commerce Times, Web Worker Daily, jkOnTheRun, One By One Media, DailyTech, Macworld, The Last Podcast, eWeek, Valleywag and Techdirt
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Starbucks:MORE THAN 12 MILLION AT&T, STARBUCKS CUSTOMERS TO GET FREE WI-FI …
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PC Magazine, Brier Dudley's blog, Epicenter, Consumer Passion, VC Cafe, Bits, Yahoo! Finance, Silicon Alley Insider, Techmamas, deal architect, ParisLemon, Gizmodo, Digital Trends, CyberNet, Howard Lindzon, Alice Hill's Real Tech News, Telecompetitor, Engadget, Between the Lines and CrunchGear
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
VentureBeat raises $320,000 seed round, traffic growing — VentureBeat has just raised a seed round, and I wanted to be the first one to let you know. The news is beginning to leak after we filed a regulatory document. — VentureBeat has grown steadily since launching more than a year ago.
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IDC:
U.S. Internet Advertising Grew by 27% to $25.5 billion in 2007, According to IDC - Google Loses Market Share for First Time in Two Years — As consumers spend more time on the Internet, companies are redistributing advertising dollars from traditional media to online media to follow this trend.
Netflix:
Netflix, Citing a Clear Signal From the Industry, Will Carry High-Def DVDs Only in Blu-ray Format — With the industry now having picked a winner in the face-off between the two competing high- definition DVD formats, Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ: NFLX), the world's largest online movie rental service …
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NewTeeVee, ParisLemon, Associated Press, technabob, Engadget, Macsimum News, greg hughes, CyberNet, Between the Lines, Silicon Alley Insider, Kotaku and paidContent.org
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Mike Shields / Mediaweek:
CNN Launches iReport.com — Since CNN embraced the citizen journalist movement back in August 2006 with the launch of its iReport initiative, the news organization has received nearly 100,000 news-related photos and videos from viewers, including nearly 10,000 this past January alone.
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Search Engine Watch Blog, Profy.Com, ReadWriteWeb, The Last Podcast, CNET News.com, Wikinomics and paidContent.org
Dan Primack / PE HUB:
Benchmark Closes Sixth Fund — Silicon Valley venture firm Benchmark Capital has closed its sixth fund with around $500 million, peHUB has learned. That's 20% more than what Benchmark raised for its fifth fund in 2004, and includes commitments from the firm's partners and several portfolio company founders (past and present).
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Mike Nash / Windows Vista Team Blog:
Windows Vista SP1 availability for technical customers — On Monday (February 4th), we announced the release to manufacturing (RTM) of Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1). Overall, people are excited to hear that we have reached this milestone, but some are disappointed they are not able to immediately download it.
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eWeek, Windows Connected, Ed Bott's Microsoft Report, Computerworld, All about Microsoft, BetaNews and Full of I.T.
Microsoft:
Microsoft Agrees to Acquire Danger Inc., Strengthens Mobile Consumer Vision — Acquisition of popular software and mobile services company will enhance Microsoft's ability to broadly deliver compelling mobile experiences. — Microsoft Corp. today announced it has entered into an agreement …
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Search Engine Journal, Guardian Unlimited, GigaOM, JupiterResearch, Hiptop 3, TechCrunch, Kurt Shintaku's Blog and DailyTech
Macworld UK:
Apple preps digital radio for iPhone — New iPhone technology set to bring DAB to iPhone — Jonny Evans — Apple is quietly working up systems that will enable users to receive and listen to digital radio using an iPhone. — This news is buried in a report detailing a move away …
Esther Dyson / Wall Street Journal:
The Coming Ad Revolution — While the big news in the online world focuses on Google, Yahoo and Microsoft, a more profound revolution is taking place on the online social networks: The discussion about privacy is changing as users take control over their own online data.
Darren Murph / Engadget:
RIM affirms that BlackBerry services are down — again — Oh noes! BlackBerry addicts everywhere have reason to panic this afternoon, as their beloved network is indeed experiencing technical difficulties — and it's certainly not the first time that this has happened in the past year.
