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Fred / A VC:
We Need A New Path To Liquidity — Watching all these machinations between Microsoft, Yahoo!, Google, AOL, News Corp/MySpace, and their ilk makes me sick. They are playing around with Internet assets like they are toys. And meanwhile the services we have come to rely on like Flickr …
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Todd Bishop / Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog:
Sorting out the whole Microsoft-Yahoo melee — For anyone trying to track the recent flurry of activity surrounding Microsoft's Yahoo acquisition bid, here's a company-by-company guide, including highlights from Wall Street analysts' notes to clients today. — Yahoo: Trying to avoid or sweeten Microsoft's original offer.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:Yahoo Goes Scorched Earth
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Underwire / Wired:
Flickr Users Cry Mutiny Over New Video Feature — Flickr users are revolting. Again. — Several groups protesting this week's addition of video to Yahoo's popular photo-sharing site have sprung up to object to the new feature. — One group, We Say No to Videos on Flickr …
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Hugh Macleod / gapingvoid:
WHY I DELETED MY TWITTER ACCOUNT — It's no big deal. I liked Twitter. But I found it too easy. — I think my time would be better spent drawing cartoons and writing books. — That's just how I feel. — [UPDATE:] This story seems to have made it onto the front page of Techmeme.
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DealBook:
Google C.E.O. Taps Quattrone as Adviser in Yahoo Battle — Update: Mr. Quattrone's firm, Qatalyst, has been hired by Google, people close to the company told DealBook. — Look who Google's turned to for help. — Frank P. Quattrone is advising Eric E. Schmidt, Google's chief executive …
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Brooke Crothers / CNET News.com:
Nvidia CEO goes on Intel rant — Nvidia CEO and co-founder Jen-Hsun Huang let rip with a diatribe against Intel at Nvidia's financial analyst day on Thursday. Huang cited frustration with Nvidia's market share struggle with Intel and recent Intel comments stating that discrete graphics cards will become “unnecessary.”
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Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Windows is ‘collapsing,’ Gartner analysts warn — The researchers damn Windows in current form, urges radical changes — Computerworld) Calling the situation “untenable” and describing Windows as “collapsing,” a pair of Gartner analysts yesterday said Microsoft Corp. must make radical changes …
Saul Hansell / Bits:
Ad Industry Bans Targeting People With Cancer; Ads to Widows and Orphans Allowed — UPDATED | 11:46 AM If you've got AIDS, cancer or erectile dysfunction a group of big advertising networks are going to promise not to remember that you read sites about those topics and remind you …
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Keeping Network Solutions from cashing in on your subdomains — Earlier this week, a report at TechCrunch pointed out that a number of subdomains at GotGame.com pointed to generic Network Solutions pages with spammy text links. A number of observers across the Internet found other sites …
Mark Glaser / MediaShift:
The Social Press Release: Multimedia, Two-Way, Direct to the Public — The Social Press Release: Multimedia, Two-Way, Direct to the Public — Silicon Valley journalist/blogger Tom Foremski had had enough. Two years ago, he wrote a poison pen letter to the PR industry in a blog post titled Die!
Andrew Wallenstein / Hollywood Reporter:
Blockbuster eyes streaming to TVs — Apple TV is getting some competition from Blockbuster. — The home video giant is developing a set-top device for streaming films directly to TV sets and is expected to announce the offering sometime this month. — Blockbuster declined comment …
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Erica Ogg / CNET News.com:Blockbuster considering set-top box for movie downloads
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
AOL's Falco: Yes, We Might Merge With Yahoo; No, I Can't Say How Many Of You Will Be Fired — AOL CEO Randy Falco (TWX) sets employees at ease about that distracting AOL-Microsoft-Yahoo-News Corp chatter. (YHOO) (MSFT). No comment yet on how many thousands of AOLers will be fired if the Yahoo merger goes through.
Wall Street Journal:
Microsoft Remains Favorite In Crowded Battle for Yahoo — Yahoo Inc.'s directors meet Friday to discuss alternatives to a Microsoft Corp. takeover, with many insiders still seeing a Microsoft deal — without the participation of News Corp. — as the most likely outcome.
Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Aliph Jawbone 2 exposed — So there are a couple of big complaints about Aliph's otherwise-lauded Jawbone noise canceling Bluetooth headset: one, it's rather porky, and two, the charge connector is about as reliable as a Comcast installation appointment. Hang tight, though …
AppleInsider:
Filing: Apple conceptualized smart MVNO system ahead of iPhone — In the years and months leading up to the release of its iPhone handset, Apple Inc. considered forming its own mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) system which would interface with multiple primary wireless carriers …
Agence France Presse:
Brazil Senate orders Google to identify website pedophiles — BRASILIA (AFP) — A Brazilian Senate panel ordered Google on Wednesday to give it access to 3,261 profiles containing suspected pedophile material on a highly popular social-networking website. — Federal authorities have complained …
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Andy Greenberg / Forbes:
Bush's Cyber Secrets Dilemma — There's a problem facing the Bush administration: It has $30 billion to spend over the next five to seven years to keep the U.S. safe from hackers and cyberspies. But to extend that protection to the nation's critical infrastructure—including banks …
