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Marc Andreessen / blog.pmarca.com:
If Microsoft goes fully hostile on Yahoo — We have seen extensive press coverage of Microsoft's pursuit of Yahoo over the last few months, including notably excellent coverage from Silicon Alley Insider and the Wall Street Journal. However, I have not seen a detailed analysis …
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Microsoft: Does a Yahoo proxy war add up? — Microsoft has three clear paths to take with regards to Yahoo acquisition: It can make a hostile bid, raise its offer or walk away and hope for a better price later. — Given that Microsoft's “negotiate or else” deadline passed Saturday …
Apple:
Apple Updates iMac — Now with Faster Processors & Faster Graphics Option — Apple® today updated its all-in-one iMac® line with the latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors and the most powerful graphics ever available in an iMac. With prices starting at just $1,199 …
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Apple beefs up iMac line — Apple on Monday updated its iMac lineup with the latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors and NVIDIA GeForce graphics. — Among the tweaks to the iMac line: The iMac has 2GB of memory standard on most models and offers a 3.06 GHz Intel processor on the 24-inch iMac with more video memory as an option.
Content Consumer:
The Great Ubuntu-Girlfriend Experiment — Introduction — I've toyed with Linux since 2002, when I first installed Mandrake. With the latest release of Ubuntu, I was interested to see how far Linux had come since then in terms of being used easily by the mainstream.
Ian Shapira / Washington Post:
When Young Teachers Go Wild on the Web — Public Profiles Raise Questions of Propriety and Privacy — It's almost like Googling someone: Log on to Facebook. Join the Washington, D.C., network. Search the Web site for your favorite school system. And then watch the public profiles …
Verizon:
1Q 2008 HIGHLIGHTS — Consolidated Results — 57 cents in EPS and 61 cents in adjusted EPS before discontinued operations (non-GAAP), compared with 1Q 2007 EPS of 51 cents and 54 cents, respectively. — $23.8 billion in revenues, up 5.5 percent; $4.3 billion in operating income, up 14.1 percent.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:Verizon's first quarter on target; Wireless shines
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DigiTimes:
Foxconn to assemble 3G iPhones with shipments to total 24-25 million units, says paper — Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) has reportedly landed orders for the assembly of second-generation iPhones from Apple supporting 3G, with shipments to begin in June this year …
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John Markoff / New York Times:
A Google Prototype for a Precision Image Search — SAN FRANCISCO — Google researchers say they have a software technology intended to do for digital images on the Web what the company's original PageRank software did for searches of Web pages. — On Thursday at the International World Wide Web Conference …
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Nokia:
Beautiful to use: Nokia unveils three new handsets that merge modern functionality with classic and sophisticated looks — Espoo, Finland - Nokia today unveiled a trio of mobile devices that balance stunning and sophisticated looks with the latest in mobile functionality.
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Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
All the rage in Europe: Firefox market share climbs higher — European web metrics company Xiti has published browser market share statistics for March. The data indicates that the open source Firefox web browser has climbed to almost 29 percent market share in Europe, where it is still steadily increasing in popularity.
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Adam Sherwin / Times of London:
GTA IV: entertainment's future — When Niko Bellic steps into a New York cityscape next week, he does so with the potential to become a defining figure of our times. — This grim-faced ex-soldier will visit prostitutes and casually run down pedestrians, helping to redefine …
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Twitter: Where Nobody Knows Your Name — So I was in Washington, D.C., this past weekend for a lovely wedding, traveling back to a city where I started my career and worked for 15 years after college. — And I conducted a little experiment among the more than 100 folks gathered for the wedding …
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft internal memo details Windows 7-Windows Live ties — In January, I mentioned an internal Microsoft memo I had seen which provided details of how Microsoft plans to more tightly integrate its Windows 7 operating system with Windows Live services. Today, I'm providing the text …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Morgan Stanley's March Internet Trends Report: Social Applications Dominating — Morgan Stanley's Internet Trends report from last month takes a big turn from previous reports - the focus is nearly 100% on social applications and how they are taking over the Internet (Yahoo apparently read it).
Om Malik / GigaOM:
At SwitchAbit, Twittergram Shares a Common Future — Betaworks, a New York-based seed-stage investment/development company started by John Borthwick (a former AOL executive who recently sold photo-sharing service Fotolog to Hi Media of France for $90 million), is about to launch its first project, SwitchAbit.
