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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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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Microsoft Raises Yahoo Offer To $32-$33 Through WSJ; YHOO Wants $37 — Microsoft (MSFT) leaks news that it is willing to pay $32-$33 for Yahoo—in a last attempt to get Yahoo (YHOO) shareholders to pressure the board to sell. It adds that Yahoo's dope-smoking board wants “upper $30s.”
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 …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:YouTube Aims to Monetize in a Post-TV Era
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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 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 …
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
I've redesigned — “Finally,” Om Malik just told me after I told him about my redesigned blog that just went live. We were just on a panel discussion talking to Google's sales team. — Some things you'll notice: a prominent FriendFeed component. I've really become addicted to FriendFeed.
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Nilay Patel / Engadget:
Psystar Open Computer notes, benchmarks and video — Okay, so we've been playing with the Psystar Open Computer for a few hours now, and we've formed some early impressions and put together a short video of it in action. We haven't really tried to stress the system yet …
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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.
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Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
Zenbe: Next-Generation Webmail, With A Platform Twist — The most publicized improvements to email in recent memory haven't been browser-based, they've been extensions like Xobni and Xoopit that latch onto your existing mail client and provide auxiliary services.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Kongregate Gets $3 Million From Bezos: Growing Fast and About To Unleash Its Games on Facebook — Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has invested $3 million into user-generated casual gaming site Kongregate through Bezos Expeditions, his personal investment vehicle.
Andy Bloxham / Telegraph:
Facebook ‘more effective than emergency services in a disaster’ — Social networking websites such as Facebook are more effective than the emergency services and media at dealing with disasters, a new report claims. — Researchers found that blogs, maps, photo sites and instant messaging systems …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Goodness Prevails: Iron Man Screening Is ON. — Drama over. The CrunchGear/TechCrunch Iron Man screening, which Marvel tried to shut down yesterday for no good reason whatsoever (more on that below), is back on. — We are adding another 30 spots on the wait list.
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Venture Chronicles, The Trademark Blog, Techdirt, CrunchGear, Geek Gestalt, Technovia, Master of 500 Hats and Smalltalk Tidbits …
Google Analytics Blog:
Google Analytics for Blogger now in private beta — Several weeks back at South by Southwest, Jeff Veen announced our new Google Analytics for Blogger reporting interface. Currently available only in private beta, this product is a collaboration of several teams and marks the transition …
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 …
