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Kevin Heisler / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Yahoo Mails Letter to Shareholders: Full Text — Yahoo mailed a letter to shareholders outlining the reasons the Board believes Microsoft's proposal significantly undervalues Yahoo and isn't in the best interests of Yahoo stockholders. — In the missive Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang emphasizes its strong brand …
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Yahoo! Mails Letter to Stockholders — Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, today announced that it has sent a letter to its stockholders, outlining the reasons the Board believes that Microsoft's proposal significantly undervalues Yahoo! and is not in the best interests of Yahoo! stockholders.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:Yahoo Makes Its Case in Letter to Shareholders
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Loïc Le Meur / Loic Le Meur Blog:
How I started Seesmic and raised $6 million — I closed the initial funding of Seesmic in September 2007. The main investment came from Atomico's Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis (they invested $5.5 million on the $6 million). Talking to bloggers all the time, I have not been very good at keeping …
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Wall Street Journal:
Microsoft to Replace Head of Mobile Group — Microsoft plans to announce the replacement of the head of its mobile phone group as part of a broader executive reshuffling, people familiar with the matter said.
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Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Microsoft's executive shuffle expected Thursday — I'll say it again. Microsoft has a lot to learn when it comes to celebrating Valentine's Day. — A long-anticipated Microsoft executive shuffle will be formally announced on Thursday, according to sources familiar with the company's plans.
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:Microsoft's latest reorg to set the stage for Yahoo merger
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Michelle Slatalla / New York Times:
If You Can't Let Go, Twitter — SOMETIMES, you just have to trust your relatives. You have to be willing to let them leave the house unchallenged. Suspend disbelief and let them take the car. — That's what I tell my three daughters, anyway. But it never works out like that.
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Chris Kohler / Wired:
Why Spore Will Be Absolutely Huge — Spore's going to be massive. — To be honest, I hadn't really paid that much attention to Will Wright's terminally delayed simulation-of-everything over the last few years. For one, I'm not exactly into sim games, whether of the big-S or small-s variety.
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Nokia launches user created “Yamake” games on N-Gage — bye bye Gizmondo v2 — Sorry Gizmondo, your dreams of a resurrected user generated gaming platform were just usurped by Nokia. Straight outta Espoo comes Nokia's Yamake (a mashup for “you make the game") for their N-Gage platform.
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Robin Goad / Hitwise Intelligence:
What happens if your site gets ‘blacklisted’ by Google? — What is the impact on a website of being ‘blacklisted’ by Google? Recently the insurance comparison website GoCompare.com faced precisely this dilemma after the search engine picked up on irregular inbound links to its site, causing it to plummet down the rankings.
Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
Another big change for viral app marketing on Facebook: Invitation limits now dynamic — Following last week's change to notification limits from a fixed to a fluctuating limit based on user spamminess ratings, Facebook announced tonight that invitations, a mainstay of viral growth for Facebook apps, will soon be following suit.
CNET News.com:
Memo to Microsoft: Yahoo's A-list — Working at Yahoo is getting riskier by the day. Even before merger-minded Microsoft could lay off some of the stars within its acquisition target, Yahoo executives beat them to it. — But there are some key Yahoo employees who are so indispensible …
Dennis O'Reilly / CNET News.com:
Your options for placing Excel data in Word — Whenever you move data from Microsoft Excel to its Office mate Word, it seems there's always a compromise involved: If the formatting makes the transition intact, then changing the data either causes problems or simply can't be done.
Joe Wilcox / Microsoft Watch:
Firefox 3 B3: Lots of Fire, Not Enough Fox — Firefox 2 disappointed with an oh-so 1990s look and feel. Anyone remember Mac OS 8.5 or Windows 3.0, for reference? The browser's successor doesn't look any more modern. Safari and, gasp, even Internet Explorer 7 are whole lots more visually appealing.
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Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
Overlay.tv Users Share Product Placement Bounty (If There Is Such a Thing) — Clickable video advertisement startup Overlay.tv beta-launches today, bringing a slight twist to an online video sector that's getting nearly as crowded as how-to videos and girl-reading-news shows.
Nicholas Deleon / CrunchGear:
Yahoo! looks to News Corp. for possible merger deal — Yahoo! is in talks with News Corp. about merging itself with MySpace and the company's other Web outlets, including IGN and Photobucket. That's because Yahoo! rejected Microsoft's bid a few days ago and it's looking less likely …
