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Wall Street Journal:
Microsoft Board Mulls Yahoo Bid But Price Remains Key Issue — Microsoft Corp.'s directors are meeting Wednesday to weigh the company's approach in its takeover standoff with Yahoo Inc. and an announcement could come following the meeting, say people familiar with the matter.
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Microsoft's Next Move on Yahoo Is Imminent — One Possibility — Is a Proxy Slate — To Replace Board — Microsoft Corp. is expected to make its next move in the three-month-old takeover standoff with Yahoo Inc. as early as Wednesday, as the two sides have failed to reach any negotiated acquisition deal.
CNBC.com:
Exclusive Interview With Google's Eric Schmidt — CNBC's Maria Bartiromo sat down with Google — [GOOG Loading... (%) ] CEO, Dr. Eric Schmidt Tuesday at the Milken Conference in Los Angeles to discuss Google's growth and U.S. slowdown, the possibility of a Microsoft acquisition of Yahoo! …
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Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
Eric Schmidt: Google Has Secret Plan To Mint Money With YouTube (GOOG) — CNBC is hyping a Eric Schmidt/Maria Bartiromo interview that airs today at 4pm, but they're already released the transcript from the chat, taped yesterday. — Predictably, there are no shockers …
Mimi Turner / Hollywood Reporter:
Thom Yorke: Radiohead's stunt was ‘one-off’ — Band won't offer unpriced downloads again — LONDON — They turned the music sales model on its head, but indie rockers Radiohead won't be repeating their decision to let fans choose what to pay for their downloads, frontman Thom Yorke told The Hollywood Reporter.
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Michael Kanellos / CNET News.com:
HP makes memory from a once theoretical circuit — It's the tale of the lost circuit. — Thirty-seven years ago, Leon Chua, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley, mathematically theorized that scientific symmetry demands that there should be a fourth fundamental circuit.
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Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica:
An elephant never forgets? George W. Bush's lost e-mails — The case of the missing e-mail — A federal magistrate judge on Thursday chastised the Bush administration for failing to fully answer questions related to a long-running dispute over missing White House emails.
Lessig Blog:
It's Comrade Lessig to you, bub. — Julian Sanchez has a piece in Ars Technica analyzing my recent outing by PFF as a communist. Or socialist. Or quasi-socialist utopianist. Whatever. I'll leave the criticisms of the criticisms of my scholarship to the reader to judge.
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Tom Krazit / One More Thing:
Psystar's Open Computer arrives at CNET — Psystar's Open Computer has arrived. — (Credit: CNET Networks) — The Open Computer has landed at CNET Networks. — My colleagues over at CNET Reviews in New York have managed to get their hands on a review unit of Psystar's Open Computer …
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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Google diving into 3D mapping of oceans — We've got Google Earth and Google Sky. Next up will be a map of the world below sea level—Google Ocean. — The company has assembled an advisory group of oceanography experts, and in December invited researchers from institutions around the world to the Mountain View, Calif., Googleplex.
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Nick Nguyen / delicious blog:
Firefox 3, del.icio.us, and you — Firefox 3 users, rejoice! Today I'm pleased to announce a beta release of an enhanced version of our Firefox Add-on for del.icio.us that now has full Firefox 3 support while retaining Firefox 2 compatibility. While it is largely similar to the release version …
Chanpory Rith / LifeClever:
The Missing iPhone Ringtone — I love the ringtone at the end of every iPhone television ad. It's simple, sweet, and unassuming. But strangely, it's doesn't come installed on the iPhone. You can't even buy it from the iTunes Music Store. Fortunately, you can download it here for free:
Business Wire:
Akamai Reports First Quarter 2008 Financial Results — Normalized net income* was $75.6 million, or $0.41 per diluted share, up 49 percent year-over-year — CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM - News), the leader in powering rich media …
Michael Learmonth / Silicon Alley Insider:
LinkedIn: We're Selling Ads For $75 CPM — LinkedIn (SAI 25 #8) may have been trampled by the likes of Facebook (SAI 25 #1) and MySpace in terms of users, but at least it can sell advertising. Kevin Eyres, LinkedIn's managing director for Europe, told IDG the social network for careerists …
Nwahs / TmoNews:
More 3G release news — Here is the update we promised earlier. It is pretty hard posting from a non-smartphone, and cropping sensitive information out of pictures, so we do apologize for the delay. This is the moment we have all been waiting for. 3G countdown anyone? The list of cities, in order, is as follows:
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Ashlee Vance / The Register:
KVM funder takes a swing at desktop virtualization — Qumranet, a rather small software company, wants to make a very large play in the virtualization market with a new product. It's looking for Solid ICE to go up against the desktop virtulization wares from VMware, Citrix, Microsoft and a host of start-ups.
