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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Exec Bails: Bradley Horowitz Leaves For Google — Bradley Horowitz, head of Yahoo's Advanced Technology Division (and mentioned in a post earlier today), has accepted a position with Google, we've confirmed via a source at Yahoo. We have a message into Bradley for a comment, but have not yet heard back.
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Googling Google, Valleywag, WebProNews, Google Blogoscoped and Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Getting Fired At Yahoo: A Twitter Log — Yahoo's Ryan Kuder was canned today. A drag for him, but a gift for the rest of us—because he Twittered it. A new form of literature is in the making... Y! layoffs today, I'm “impacted”. I'm heading into work to pack my desk …
Susan Mernit / Susan Mernit's Blog:
Just got laid off at Yahoo — Well, the law of continuous revolution just gave me a good shove. — Today is my last day at Yahoo and the start of something new. — What? No idea, yet. — I'm definitely interested in hearing about both short term and longer term consulting opportunities …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Brickhouse Head Leaves Yahoo — Salim Ismail, who has led Yahoo Brickhouse since since March 2007, left the company today as part of broader layoffs at Yahoo. Layoff packages were being offered, he said, and he left voluntarily. — Brickhouse is based in San Francisco and shares office space …
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Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim
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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Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:Yahoo-News Corp Still Talking, Deal Still Possible
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Search Engine Land, Between the Lines, Yahoo! Finance, Voices, Valleywag, Screenwerk and HipMojo.com
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Michael Dell Pays $150M For His Bro's Startup — At a time when Michael Dell has regained control over the helm at the firm he has founded, it seems dicey for him to close a deal that smells of nepotism. But Dell seems to taunt the critics with this one. — Dell says it will pay $155M …
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WebProNews, TechCrunch, Mashable!, CNET News.com, Technology Live, Direct2Dell and GigaOM
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Techmeme News:
New Twitter and RSS “Firehose” feeds include all headlines — High-volume, “complete” RSS feeds are available now for Techmeme, WeSmirch, memeorandum, and Ballbug. For years, the RSS feed for each site has included the day's most important 20-30 headlines, typically those placed “above the fold”.
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The Last Podcast
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Beltzner / Mozilla Developer News:
Firefox 3 Beta 3 now available for download — Please note: We do not recommend that anyone other than developers and testers download the Firefox 3 Beta 3 milestone release. It is intended for testing purposes only. — Firefox 3 Beta 3 is now available for download.
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Computerworld, Security Watch, All News Feeds, CyberNet, Compiler, Mozilla Links, Hardware 2.0, greg hughes, Mashable! and Insanely Great Mac
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Ian Austen / New York Times:
Flawed Software Upgrade Caused BlackBerry Malfunction — OTTAWA — As was the case with last year's BlackBerry service failure, Research In Motion blamed a flawed software upgrade for shutting down wireless e-mail messages to millions of its North American subscribers for about three hours on Monday.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Bebo: $1 billion Acquisition “Definitely Happened” Says Source — Following up to our post last week talking about a possible acquisition of social network site Bebo: A high level source has told us that Bebo has been in discussions via their investment bank, Allen & Co. …
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Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim
AppleInsider:
Apple releases Apple TV “Take 2” software update — Apple on Tuesday quietly released its much-anticipated Apple TV “Take 2” software update, which introduces a brand new on-sreen interface and allows users to rent high definition movies directly from their widescreen TVs.
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InfoWorld:
Top 10 trends at the Mobile World Congress — There's something to interest almost everyone at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week: — For the lost — GPS is built in to an increasing number of mobile phones. Nokia is still the most aggressive vendor.
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Daily Mail:
Man arrested at gunpoint after police mistake his MP3 player for a gun — Armed police held an innocent mechanic at gunpoint when they mistook his MP3 player for a pistol. — Darren Nixon, 28, was arrested and put in police cell for simply listening to music on his way home from work.
Bill Ray / The Register:
Microsoft ready to play with PlayReady — All your media are etc.... Mobile World Congress Microsoft is proudly showing off its PlayReady technology at MWC, but woe betide anyone who describes it as a DRM platform. — PlayRead was announced at last year's conference, but this time it's demonstrable.
Maria Aspan / New York Times:
Quitting Facebook Gets Easier — Aiming to address the privacy concerns of disenchanted users, Facebook.com said on Tuesday that it was trying to make it easier for people to delete their accounts permanently from the social networking site. — Until now, Facebook has offered only a deactivation option …
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Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:
Comment of the Day: OpenSocial is a “Social Cloud” For Developers, Not Users — Our second daily Comments Competition winner is theharmonyguy, for an insightful explanation of Googler Kevin Marks' “Social Cloud” theory. Congratulations theharmonyguy, you've won a $30 Amazon voucher …
