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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, WebProNews, Valleywag, 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 …
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Search Engine Land, The FASTForward Blog, Between the Lines, Jaffe Juice, Bits and The WebGuild Blog
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
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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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Tech Trader Daily, BoomTown, MediaBytes with Shelly …, Silicon Alley Insider and ParisLemon
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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)
Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:Yahoo-News Corp Still Talking, Deal Still Possible
Discussion:
Search Engine Land, Between the Lines, MediaFile, Yahoo! Finance, Voices, Screenwerk, Valleywag and HipMojo.com
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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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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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, Direct2Dell, Mashable!, CNET News.com, Technology Live and GigaOM
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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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. …
Discussion:
Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim
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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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.
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.
Aaron Ricadela / Business Week:
Rupert Murdoch's New Startup Incubator — The SlingShot Labs venture is designed to spawn Internet startups for News Corp. and also likely to help MySpace compete with Facebook — With 110 million members and $800 million in annual revenue, MySpace has become a growth engine for Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. (NWS) media empire.
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PE HUB
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.
John Ribeiro / InfoWorld:
IBM says it will continue large-scale hiring in India — San Francisco - IBM plans to continue hiring global services delivery staff in India by the thousands, adding to the 73,000 it already has in its global services and other operations in the country. — A large number of Indian outsourcers …
