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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo And News Corp. Continue Marathon Discussions; Possible Bid To Counter Microsoft — At the start of the Microsoft/Yahoo saga we reported that News Corp. was scrambling to put together a bid to compete with Microsoft, but backed down because they were unable to find outside funding …
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Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:
News Corp. Enters Yahoo Fray — News Corp. and Yahoo Inc. are in discussions about combining MySpace and other News Corp.-owned online properties with Yahoo, according to people familiar with the matter. — The discussions are aimed at helping Yahoo fend off Microsoft Corp's unsolicited takeover offer …
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Antone Gonsalves / InformationWeek:
Yahoo Rejection Of Microsoft Bid Draws First Shareholder Suit — The Wayne County Employees' Retirement System of Michigan filed a lawsuit asking the court to force Yahoo to consider takeover offers. — Yahoo's rejection of Microsoft's $44.6 billion bid for the Web portal has sparked its first shareholder suit.
Wall Street Journal:Google Cools on Ad Tie-Up
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Walt Mossberg / Mossblog:
Super-Slim ThinkPad Sneak Peek — Only a month or so after Apple announced its MacBook Air laptop, which it calls the world's thinnest laptop, Lenovo is about to spring its own super-skinny machine: the ThinkPad X300. Here's a sneak peek. My full review will appear after I have fully tested …
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RushLimbaugh.com:
El Rushbo's Appeal to Steve Jobs — BEGIN TRANSCRIPT — RUSH: I can't believe you would say that. For those of you watching on the Dittocam today at RushLimbaugh.com, you've probably seen me pretty animated here during the break talking to the broadcast engineer and my trusty aide-de-camp …
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Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
New Net neutrality bill frowns on ISP ‘favoritism’ — Comcast, AT&T, and other network operators would be expected to refrain from “unreasonable discriminatory favoritism” of content on their pipes under a recrafted Net neutrality proposal introduced Wednesday in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Mike Sachoff / WebProNews:Comcast Stands By Its Internet Filtering
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Tkarr / Save the Internet Blog:Internet Bill a Blow to the Gatekeepers
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Paul Krill / InfoWorld:
Early Android SDK updated — The “early-look” release of the Android SDK, for building mobile applications for the Google-backed Android platform, has been updated this week. — Release m5-rc14 is available now, featuring a new user interface that replaces the previous placeholder interface …
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Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Mozilla releases third Firefox 3 beta — Mozilla has released a third beta version of Firefox 3, bringing about 1,300 changes to the widely used open-source Web browser. — Firefox 3 Beta 3 should be more stable, perform faster, use memory more efficiently, and fit in better …
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Official Google Blog:
What if... you could have your doodle on the Google homepage for a day? — Posted by Marissa Mayer, Vice President of Search Products & User Experience, and Dennis Hwang, Webmaster Manager and Chief Google Doodler — Today, we're excited to announce the Doodle 4 Google competition.
Jason Chen / Gizmodo:
Apple TV 2.0 Review — Ever since our Apple TV 1.0 review decided that Apple's thrust into the living room wasn't pantsworthy, we've been waiting for them to step up and make a revision that was. Apple TV 2.0 is their answer. (Let's stop calling it Take 2, please!)
CNET News.com:
Enable Vista's hidden administrator, and password-protect its XP equivalent — You probably know about the “hidden” administrator account in Windows XP. It's the only account on XP systems on which no other accounts have been created. — Until you add a new account …
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Owen Thomas / Valleywag:
Loic Le Meur raises $6 million for videomail startup — Blogger turned entrepreneur Loic Le Meur has raised $6 million to inflict on the world a decades-old technology thoroughly rejected by consumers: videomail. He calls it Seesmic, and has repackaged videomail as “video conversations.”
drupal.org:
Drupal 6.0 released — After one year of development we are ready to release Drupal 6.0 to the world. Thanks to the tireless work of the Drupal community, over 1,600 issues have been resolved during the Drupal 6.0 release cycle. These changes are evident in Drupal 6's major usability improvements …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Imeem Acquires Snocap — Digital music wholesaler Snocap, long searching for a buyer, is being acquired by music streaming site Imeem. The price will likely not be disclosed. — Snocap was founded in 2002 by Napster creator Shawn Fanning, Jordan Mendelson and Ron Conway.
Andrew Lipsman / comScore:
New Study Shows that Heavy Clickers Distort Reality of Display Advertising Click-Through Metrics — Starcom, Tacoda and comScore's “Natural Born Clickers” findings suggest “the click is dead” as go-to measurement of effectiveness for brand-building display advertising campaigns
louisgray.com:
LinkRiver Enters Life Streaming Fray, Focused on Link Blogs — If 2007 was all about Facebook and Twitter, 2008 is shaping up to be all about link blogs, and sharing what you're consuming on the Web with friends. The newest service to enter the picture is an intriguing entry, LinkRiver …
