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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Yahoo's first quarter good; Not good enough for a higher Microsoft bid; Yang wants more — Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang said he was “open to all and any alternatives including a sale to Microsoft” following the company's first quarter results. The brief comments indicate Yahoo hasn't ruled …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Q1 Earnings Released, Revenues and Earnings Above Expectations — Update: Erick is live blogging the earnings call. — Yahoo released Q1 financials moments ago, and blew through expectations. Total revenue for the quarter was $1.8 billion, net revenues were $1.35 billion.
Tom Pfeiffer / Reuters:
Yahoo results won't affect Microsoft offer: Ballmer — SKHIRAT, Morocco (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) will hold firm on its $43.2 billion offer for Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O: Quote, Profile, Research), regardless of whether Yahoo's quarterly results impress or disappoint investors …
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Yahoo Q1 Solid, With Revs Ex-TAC $1.352B; Non-GAAP EPS 11c; Outlook In Line; Is It Good Enough? — Yahoo (YHOO) reported decent first quarter results; whether they are good enough to change the balance of power in its battle for control of the company with Microsoft (MSFT) is not clear.
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:LIVE ANALYSIS: Yahoo Q1 Results Just Good Enough
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:Liveblogging Yahoo Q1 Do-Or-Die Earnings Call
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Brad Stone / New York Times:
EBay Files Suit Against Craigslist — SAN FRANCISCO — All is not well in eBay's extended family. — EBay, based in San Jose, Calif., filed a lawsuit Tuesday in the state of Delaware against Craigslist, the online classified advertising company in which it owns a minority interest.
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Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
eBay Finally Loses Cool: Sues Craigslist Over “Stake Dilution” — eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) and Craigslist, never the happy brethren, have barely tolerated each other over the years since the former bought a stake in the online classifieds phenom in 2004. The two compete head on …
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Business Wire:eBay Files Corporate Governance Suit to Protect its Investment in craigslist
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InfoWorld:
FCC: Comcast blocking was widespread — Comcast's slowing of peer-to-peer traffic appeared to be more widespread than the company has disclosed, the chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission said Tuesday. — FCC chairman Kevin Martin, testifying before a Senate committee …
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Stefanie Olsen / CNET News.com:
Ex-Googlers working on stealth social search — Nathan Stoll, former product lead of Google News, has been quietly working on a new social search service he started with the help of two other Google refugees, CNET News.com has learned. The site, called Mechanical Zoo, is poised to launch in beta next month.
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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
DRM sucks redux: Microsoft pulling plug on MSN Music DRM — Customers who have purchased music from Microsoft's now-defunct MSN Music store are now facing a decision they never anticipated making: commit to which computers (and OS) they want to authorize forever, or give up access to the music they paid for.
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Gary Wolf / Wired News:
Want to Remember Everything You'll Ever Learn? Surrender to This Algorithm — The winter sun sets in mid-afternoon in Kolobrzeg, Poland, but the early twilight does not deter people from taking their regular outdoor promenade. Bundled up in parkas with fur-trimmed hoods …
David / Signal vs. Noise:
Are you sure you want to be in San Francisco? — Techies, VCs, and the press are always swooning over the glory of the Bay area. This is where all the excitement, the money, and the people are, they say. And that's true to the extent that your great big idea fits the current cultural mold of that environment.
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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Google sued over advertising program — A lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court accuses Google of deceiving its customers into paying for ads they didn't expressly request. — When participating in Google's online auction-based advertising system, customers specify what they would be willing …
Martin LaMonica / CNET News.com:
Intel Mash Maker: Mash-ups for the masses — Intel wants to make the whole Web editable, just like a single Wikipedia page. — The chip giant on Tuesday will make a beta available of Intel Mash Maker, a free browser extension that allows users to modify Web pages and combine information from different sources.
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Mason Inman / New Scientist:
To defeat a malicious botnet, build a friendly one — Beating the “botnets” - armies of infected computers used to attack websites - requires borrowing tactics from the bad guys, say computer security researchers. — A team at the University of Washington, US, want to marshal swarms of good computers to neutralise the bad ones.
Nokia:
SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT joins Nokia Comes With Music — Music bundle on Nokia devices to include SONY BMG content — London, United Kingdom / Espoo, Finland - Nokia today announced that SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT has officially joined Nokia Comes With Music, a revolutionary …
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Investors put $184 million in 23 virtual worlds in the first quarter — We're going to have a veritable galaxy of virtual worlds soon. Investors put $184 million into 23 virtual world companies during the first quarter of 2008, according to Virtual Worlds Management.
Sue Zeidler / Reuters:
Netflix, consumer electronics partnerships near — LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. online DVD rental company Netflix Inc on Monday said it expects to soon announce three partnerships, similar to its set-top box alliance with LG Electronics Inc, that will let subscribers watch films streamed directly from the Web to TVs.
