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Jerry Yang / Yodel Anecdotal:
Ok, so now what? — The last 13 weeks have been a remarkable time here at Yahoo!. We've been living under the microscope in a way we never have before. There has been greater attention than ever on our strategy and our ability to execute against it. Some even questioned whether Microsoft's …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Prepares For A Black Monday — As everyone digests yesterday's extraordinary news around Microsoft's withdrawal of their Yahoo bid, the big rumor around the valley is that Yahoo is frantically trying to negotiate a deal with Google to outsource search advertising and get it announced before the markets open tomorrow.
Dan Farber / Outside the Lines:
Yang betting on Y!Open to save Yahoo! — In a memo to Yahoo employees, co-founder and CEO Jerry Yang asked his troops to redouble their efforts and to focus on executing what he called the most important transition in the company's history. It was the expected post-game motivational speech …
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:Why Yahoo (YHOO) Should Go Ahead With Google Outsourcing Deal (GOOG)
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
At Amazon, Sun Coming Out From the Cloud — Sun Microsystems is getting ready to talk about its cloud computing efforts, including some kind of a deal with Amazon for its Amazon Web Services, according to CEO Jonathan Schwartz, who delivered a short keynote at Startup Camp in San Francisco.
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Xobni launches email organizer for Outlook — Xobni, the San Francisco company we raved about last year that offers a way to better organize your email from Outlook, is launching publicly with its test version. — Its key feature is a sidebar in your inbox that shows you profiles of the people you're corresponding with.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Twitter Can Be Liberated - Here's How — Over the last few days a number of popular bloggers have complained, loudly, that it's time to ditch Twitter and move to a decentralized version of the service that won't go down every time usage spikes. Generally services like Twitter …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Does Ballmer Need To Go? — Microsoft's dramatic decision this weekend to withdraw its offer for Yahoo and not pursue a hostile bid raises a whole host of questions. What happens to Yahoo now? What happens to Microsoft? Or is this just a tactic to drive down the price of Yahoo's shares …
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Steve / The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs:Ballmer now looking for other companies to not buy
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Andrew Chen / Futuristic Play:
Facebook Apps: Why they're focused on fun instead of utility — There's recently been some discussion that Facebook apps are silly and pointless, as proven by the categorization of apps on Facebook. The question is, why is this true? — Ben Rattray from Change.org recently sent me a great e-mail …
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Kevin J. O'Brien / New York Times:
Mobile TV Spreading in Europe and to the U.S. — BERLIN — Every day in Switzerland, 40,000 people watch a 100-second television news broadcast on their cellphones. In Italy, a million people pay as much as 19 euros each ($29) a month to watch up to a dozen mobile TV channels.
Jason Brown / theWHIR.com Blogs:
The way of the DB Dodo — So I've been reading and trying to keep up with what's going on with Sun and MySQL these last couple of months. Seems like this has the potential to become another fantastic open source project that is moving towards closing some of it's source (some of the most wonderful parts of it's source).
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Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Publisher Tested the Waters Online, Then Dove In — It may be a niche publisher, but the International Data Group has been working out the answers to some big mainstream questions. The biggest one: Can print media survive the transition to the Internet? — The question has taken on new urgency lately.
Hugo Kugiya / Los Angeles Times:
High tech inspires rural boom — and fear it could go poof — Microsoft, Yahoo and Intuit have built a new kind of farm — huge data centers called server farms — stimulating development. But some think expectations are too high. — QUINCY, WASH. — When the wind blows across the arid river basin …
David Carr / New York Times:
Steve Jobs Stakes Out the TV Den — I don't own my iPod. It owns me. — A week ago, the family was stuck on I-95 between Washington and New York for seven hours. The Meatgrinder, as it is affectionately known to us, had a little case of congestion and after five hours of quality time …
Dan Nystedt / IDG News Service:
Battery Shortage Should Evaporate by Q3 — A shortage of lithium-ion batteries currently hurting laptop computer shipments will likely ease in the third quarter, an executive said Friday. — A fire at South Korea's LG Chem in March has crimped global supplies of lithium-ion batteries.
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