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Saul Hansell / Bits:
Google Tests Video Ads on Search Results Pages — Google has always had a love-hate relationship with advertising. Its power and wealth come from the $16 billion a year of advertising that it sells. Yet on its most important pages, the results from its Web search engine …
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft reorg: Who's in; who's out — On February 14, Microsoft announced a corporate reorganization affecting many of its divisions. — As with any Microsoft early-year reorg — which typically occur after the company's fiscal mid-year reviews — there are winners and losers.
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Microsoft Announces New, Expanded Roles for Key Executives — Fourteen leaders promoted as company matches leadership talent to expanding business priorities. — Microsoft Corp. today announced a series of executive promotions — seven new senior vice presidents and seven new corporate vice presidents …
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Search Engine Land, eWeek, Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog, GigaOM, Microsoft News Tracker and All about Microsoft
Hollywood Reporter:
Toshiba to drop HD DVD, sources say — Company says no decision has been made — The format war has turned into a format death watch. — Toshiba is widely expected to pull the plug on its HD DVD format sometime in the coming weeks, reliable industry sources say, after a rash …
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Microsoft researchers make me cry — It's not often that I see software that really changes my world. It's even rarer that I see software that I know will change the world my sons live in. I can count those times pretty easily. The first time I saw an Apple II in 1977.
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ParisLemon, TechCrunch, Brier Dudley's blog, Valleywag, Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog, WinBeta and Life On the Wicked Stage
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:What's Microsoft Offering Open Source On February 27?
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Louise Story / New York Times:
4 News Companies Ally to Sell Ads on the Internet — Four large newspaper companies are joining forces to sell advertisements on the Internet, hoping that the combined heft of their Web sites will encourage large advertisers to spend more money. — Each of the four companies …
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Paul Miller / Engadget:
Wii 2 and Xbox the Third hitting in 2010? — Those pesky analysts are at it again, and this time it's serious: Evan Wilson of Pacific Crest Securities says we can expect a sequel to the Wii in 2010, to be followed by a new Xbox later that year. Obviously it's something on the minds …
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Electronista:PS3 said to outsell Xbox in 2008, crack 20m in 2011
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Daniel Terdiman / CNET News.com:Report: PlayStation 3 could be top-selling next-gen console by 2011
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Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:
PR Wire Service to Journalists & Bloggers: We Don't Need You — We received an interesting email today from Business Wire, a press release wire service that Warren Buffett bought in March 2006. Currently Business Wire is ranked about #32 on the Techmeme Leaderboard, which puts it above some top tech blogs …
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Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
LiveUniverse Buys Revver for More than a Song (about $5M) — Troubled video site Revver was bought by Brad Greenspan's LiveUniverse last night for a price “many multiples more” than the $500,000 to $1.5 million reported recently, according to a source close to the deal.
Josh Catone / ReadWriteWeb:
Why You Should Let Users Define Your App — There's an old well-worn addage that says, “The customer is always right.” On the surface, it means that you should always strive to provide good customer service. But on a deeper level, it means that if your customers do things with your service …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Consumating Closing Quietly, Demonstrates Another Side of a Startup's Life — We like startups and innovation here at RWW so we try to pay attention to the news good and bad about what tech entrepreneurs are up to. It certainly seemed strange then that almost no one but its users …
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Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Zynga and SGN launch ad networks for game developers on social networks — Want to play more games on Facebook? Well, some fast-moving start-ups are banking on it — and are enticing you to play new games by luring you with advertising. It's the latest way entrepreneur are trying …
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AT&T Palm Centro unboxing! — We're not really sure where to begin...It's the Palm Centro on AT&T. You know the Centro, right? Outdated OS, tiny, miniscule puke-lime-green keyboard, EDGE, camera, and phone. We didn't get a solid feel for pricing when it launches on February 19th, but we've heard $99 and $149 for a 2-year agreement.
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Nielsen: YouTube is from Mars, streaming video is from Venus — There is a gender split when it comes to preferences in online video, according to new data from market research group Nielsen Online. While streams of network TV shows have proven to be pretty popular among women …
Jason Bush / Business Week:
The Blogging Czar of Moscow — How American Andrew Paulson is building a growing Internet empire in Russia — Andrew Paulson has a knack for spinning chance encounters with the rich and famous into business opportunities. In the late '80s the New Haven native carved out a career …
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David Benjamin / EE Times:
Users' love affair with iPhone stumps Mobile World panel — BARCELONA, Spain — A blue-ribbon panel of human behavior and technology experts at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain agreed that the best recent advance in the mobile telecommunications user space came …
Business Week:
Building the Perfect Laptop — The superslim ThinkPad X300 is Lenovo's bid for leadership in the high-stakes world of laptops — “Phyllis! Get me one of those interoffice mail envelopes!” — It was just after lunchtime on Jan. 15, and Peter Hortensius was storming through the cubicles …
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