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Adobe's Flash Player Not Suited For IPhone, Apple CEO Says — SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones)- Adobe Systems Inc.'s (ADBE) popular media player for cellphones simply isn't good enough for Apple Inc.'s (AAPL) iPhone, Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs said Tuesday in the most substantive comments …
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Microsoft Mix Keynote One, Live From Las Vegas — Join us here from 9:30am PST for a live blog of Ray Ozzie, Scott Guthrie and Dean Hachamovitch delivering the first of two keynotes from Microsoft's Mix conference in Las Vegas. — There's plenty of rumors swirling around what will be announced today.
Prince McLean / AppleInsider:
Investors probe Apple's Jobs on successor, games, future products — AppleInsider joined Apple investors, some of whom traveled from as far away as Europe, at the company's annual shareholders meeting in Cupertino on Tuesday, where Steve Jobs and his executive team were both grilled and lauded …
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:Analyst: Apple to exceed 10 million iPhone goal by nearly 30%
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Yahoo Searches for Options — Yahoo and Time Warner stepped up talks on creating an alternative to Microsoft's bid for Yahoo. A possible deal would fold AOL into Yahoo.
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Business Wire:
Yahoo! Extends Deadline for Nominating Directors to Board — Board Continues to Explore Alternatives to Maximize Value — Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, today announced that it has amended the Company's bylaws to extend the deadline for nominating directors to Yahoo! …
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Yahoo ditches March 13 Microsoft proxy war deadline — The Microsoft-Yahoo proxy war clock has stopped. — In an SEC filing on Wednesday Yahoo said it has changed the due date to nominate board of directors. Instead of March 13 being the last day you could make a pitch for Yahoo's board …
Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times:
Yahoo Looks at New Way to Survive — As it scrambles to avoid defeat in its battle with Microsoft, Yahoo may try to put a little more time on the clock. — Microsoft, whose offer for Yahoo is now worth $41.2 billion, was preparing to escalate its takeover fight by starting a proxy contest next week.
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Verne Kopytoff / San Francisco Chronicle:Yahoo scrambles to stave off Microsoft bid
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Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Rumors of Facebook music service bubbling again — Facebook may be getting closer to launching a music service that competes with Apple's iTunes, the Financial Times reported Wednesday. — Sources told the publication that Facebook has been approaching major record labels about licensing deals …
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Waxy.org:
New Video Overtakes “Evolution of Dance” for #1 Spot on YouTube — Yesterday, YouTube refreshed their leaderboards and a strange new video became the Most Viewed Video of All-Time, topping the world-famous Evolution of Dance video. With 89 million views, the new winner is a fan-made music video.
Jeff Leeds / New York Times:
Nine Inch Nails Fashions Innovative Web Pricing Plan — LOS ANGELES — Since being released from its major-label recording contract last year, Nine Inch Nails has joined the growing ranks of prominent artists who are navigating the digital wilderness on their own.
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Jeff Atwood / Coding Horror:
CAPTCHA is Dead, Long Live CAPTCHA! — In November 2007 I called these three CAPTCHA implementations “unbreakable”: — 2008 is shaping up to be a very bad year indeed for CAPTCHAs: — Jan 17: InformationWeek reports Yahoo CAPTCHA broken — Feb 6: Websense reports Hotmail CAPTCHA broken
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Obit: A West Coast Digerati Deadpools Ask.com — Goodbye, Ask.com. You caught my eye back in 1997 as an unusual meta search engine that asked questions to get answers. By 1998, I counted you alongside Google and Direct Hit as shining examples of what to watch in search.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Mint Gets A Mint — Silicon Valley based Mint, an “online Quicken” that also suggest to users different ways to save money by searching for deals on credit cards, bank accounts, etc., will announce a third round of funding today - $12.1 million from new investor Benchmark Capital and all previous investors …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
AOL Gets It Right With Open AIM 2.0 - Embraces Meebo and eBuddy — AOL is pushing their two year old OpenAim initiative much further this morning with OpenAIM 2.0. — There are three key changes of note. First they are now embracing services that they previously tried to stop …
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Meizu CeBIT booth shut down by German authorities — Remember how the folks at the Meizu booth swore up and down that the M8 Mini One wasn't that similar to the iPhone? Well apparently the Hanover police think otherwise. According to a report, the booth (shown above in its vacated state) …
