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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 …
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 — Google's enthusiasm has waned for a potential advertising tie-up that could help Yahoo thwart Microsoft's bid. (Complete coverage)
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Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:Proposed Yahoo-News Corp. Deal: Details
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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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Wall Street Journal:
Officials Step Up Net-Neutrality Efforts — Broadband companies are headed for a clash with Washington over whether consumers have a right to get as much as they want from the Internet, as fast as they want it, without paying extra for the privilege.
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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!)
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.
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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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Michael Kanellos / CNET News.com:
Open-source software: It's the free coffee cup of today — MENLO PARK, Calif.—Companies used to give away pens, squishy balls and coffee cups to worm their ways into the hearts of customers. Now, they pass out database software. — That is, in a sense, Sun Microsystems' strategy …
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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.
BenQ:
BenQ's First Mobile Internet Device Brings a Whole New Level of Mobile Internet Experience to Users — A tailor-made user interface brings a complete Internet experience to sophisticated consumers — Taipei, Taiwan, February 12th, 2008- BenQ today announces that it will showcase …
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.”
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