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Yahoo!'s Board of Directors Responds to Latest Microsoft Letter — The Board of Directors of Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, today sent the following letter to Steve Ballmer, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft Corporation. — Dear Steve:
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Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Yahoo Reveals Details of Its New Ad Sales System — SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Yahoo is beginning to pull the wraps off an online advertising system that the company said would help it and its partners drive sales of graphical and other premium ads. — Yahoo said the system …
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Yahoo vs. Microsoft: Thanks for the letter Steve; Now give us more money or get lost — Yahoo on Monday responded to Microsoft's weekend “negotiate or we're launching a proxy war or pulling our offer” love letter. The gist: Get lost. — Give credit to Yahoo for sheer moxie (or maybe it's stupidity).
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Yang hits back at Ballmer; mentions antitrust concerns — That didn't take long. Two days after Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sent a three-week acquisition ultimatum to Yahoo's board, Yahoo answered with its own letter. — Signed by CEO Jerry Yang and Chairman of Yahoo Board Roy Bostock …
Reuters:
Yahoo not opposed to Microsoft deal: source — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Yahoo is not opposed to a deal with Microsoft but Microsoft should pay more than $31 a share if it wants to buy the company, Yahoo plans to say in a letter to Microsoft, a person familiar with the matter said on Sunday.
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:Yahoo Rolls Out More Details About APEX/AMP
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Comcast, Twitter And The Chicken (trust me, I have a point) — I've had a very odd weekend. — First, I've taken a dozen or so phone calls from concerned relatives and friends over this NYTimes article. But a bigger issue is that the Internet was down in the house starting late Friday night, so I haven't been online much.
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Charles Cooper / Coop's Corner:For some reason, Twitter hasn't yet taken the journalist community by storm
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BBC:
Europe clears mobiles on aircraft — The use of mobiles on planes flying in European airspace is being backed by the European Commission. — The decision means that mobiles could be used once a plane has reached an altitude of 3,000m or more. — It follows six months of consultation …
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Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
For Facebook Chat, a quiet and cautious Sunday debut — Facebook chose a Sunday afternoon, when much of the tech blogger corps was pleasantly enjoying real life (we can hope), to start rolling out its previously announced instant-messaging client. That's likely no coincidence …
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Facebook rolls out chat...slowly — Facebook quietly launched its chat feature over the weekend, but the company plans a slow rollout. — In a blog post, Facebook noted: … I'm not one of the lucky few that have chat enabled, but plan to use it once it lands.
Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:Facebook Chat Launches - Tour & First Impressions
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Harry McCracken / Techlog:
The Frustratingly Unfulfilled Promise of Google Gears — Back on May 30th of last year, Google released Google Gears, a browser plug-in designed to help Web-based applications work even when they couldn't connect to the Internet. I was pretty jazzed up about it, and so were my PCW colleagues …
Steve Lohr / Bits:
Aiming for a Virtual End to PC Headaches — So-called virtual machine software, which allows a computer to simultaneously run different operating systems and applications, is already having a big impact in corporate data centers. And the leader in virtual software for server computers …
Los Angeles Times:
Cash scarcer for new technology firms — More Web start-ups are on the rocks as investors appear to be warier about their bets. — In recent months, some start-up technology companies have died or gone into comas after running out of money, a possible early sign that the resurgence in venture investment may be coming to an end.
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Internet Irony: Amazon Getting Disrupted By Apple, BitTorrent, Pirate Bay, et al — Barnes & Noble? Tower Records? Buggy-whip makers? Amazon (AMZN) feels your pain. — A decade after Amazon's explosive entrance into book and music retailing dented big media retailers and put smaller ones …
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