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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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Steven Schwankert / IDG News Service:Yahoo Sends Letter to Shareholders Over Microsoft Bid
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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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Insider Chatter, Scripting News, Between the Lines, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, The Next Web, The Last Podcast, bub.blicio.us, Rev2.org, Podcasting News and Valleywag
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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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cruel to be kind, broadstuff, Scripting News, Glass House and Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim
Comcast:
Comcast Reports 2007 Results and Provides Outlook for 2008 — Financial Tables — 2007 Consolidated Revenue increased 24% — 2007 Consolidated Operating Income increased 21% — 2007 Consolidated Operating Cash Flow increased 25% — 2007 EPS of $0.83; Adjusted EPS of $0.74 increased 23%
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AT&T Adds to HSUPA Device Lineup With Two New LaptopConnect Cards From Option — Option GT Ultra and Option GT Ultra Express Available for Use on AT&T's 3G — AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) announced today two new LaptopConnect cards from Option, the GT Ultra and GT Ultra Express.
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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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Paul Miller / Engadget:
Microsoft drums up its very own Xbox 360 shortage — The word on the street, nay, the word straight from Jeff Bell's mouth, is that the Xbox 360 is experiencing stock shortages, which could hurt sales for January and February. “You could say we misjudged demand,” said Bell, head of global marketing for Microsoft games.
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Electronista, Xbox 360 Fanboy, Silicon Alley Insider, Joystiq and Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog
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Matt Asay / The Open Road:
Zimbra's newest Desktop: Look ma! No browser! — I fell in love with Zimbra's AJAX-style interface the first time I saw it. Slick, powerful, and much more extensible than Microsoft Outlook ever dreamed of being. There was just one thing I hated about the Zimbra experience …
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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.
Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
PageOnce to Put All Your Online Accounts in One Place — Personal content aggregators are nothing new. We recently covered the latest of many services that consolidate your social networking activity into one place. But PageOnce, a company that was on this year's Israel Web Tour …
Ian / IanSchafer.com:
So What Happened At YouTube's Videocracy Event? — YouTube trotted out all their heavy hitters for their Videocracy event in NYC last night. — Here are some highlights of what they said: — For Content Partners/Creators — Get ready for active sharing. — Get ready for upgraded video editing tools.
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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Electronista
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Fred Topel / HomeMediaMagazine.com:
Michael Bay Relishes Blu-ray's Victories — When Paramount Home Entertainment decided to support HD DVD exclusively, Michael Bay was vocally opposed. Since the decision came just as his Transformers would debut on high-definition home video, Bay threatened to back out of the sequel.
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.
