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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
How Yahoo (YHOO) Blew The Microsoft (MSFT) Deal, Part 1 — The most interesting story to emerge since Microsoft (MSFT) withdrew its bid for Yahoo (YHOO) is that the companies are disputing the circumstances of Microsoft's $33 offer. This is important for three reasons:
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John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Der ... Umm ... What $33-Per-Share Offer? — Get this. Yahoo (YHOO) didn't accept Microsoft's (MSFT) offer of $33-per-share, because it didn't know Microsoft had offered $33-per-share. This according to people close to Yahoo, who tell The Wall Street Journal that Yahoo only learned Microsoft …
Crayton Harrison / Bloomberg:
Yahoo Chief Yang Open to Bids, Even From Microsoft — Yahoo! Inc. Chief Executive Officer Jerry Yang said he would be open to another bid from Microsoft Corp. or other companies at a price he considers appropriate. — Yahoo continues to speak with other companies about ways to increase its value …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Yahoo is Friendless On Wall Street — Jerry Yang, Yahoo's CEO, this morning posted what can be described as an emotional blog post about the Microsoft-Yahoo buyout saga. He reinforces the points he has made all along: that Yahoo needs to execute, innovate and develop more focus.
Amol Sharma / Wall Street Journal:
Sprint Mulls Separating Nextel Unit — Sprint Nextel Corp. is seriously considering spinning off or selling its ailing Nextel unit, people familiar with the situation say, a dramatic acknowledgement that Sprint's $35 billion acquisition of Nextel Communications in 2005 has been a failure.
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Qwest to Deliver Verizon Wireless Products and Services to Its Customers — DENVER, Colo. and BASKING RIDGE, N.J.-Qwest Communications International Inc. (NYSE: Q) and Verizon Wireless announced today they have signed a 5-year agreement for Qwest to market and sell Verizon Wireless service beginning this summer.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Techmeme: Where the A-Listers Party With the Long Tail. — One of the favorite bitchmeme's on Techmeme, the popular blog and news headline site that keeps track of the most talked-about tech stories on the Web, is that it is dominated by A-list blogs and news sites with full-time writing staffs.
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Cynthia Brumfield / IP Democracy:
Google Accuses Verizon of Planning to Dodge 700 MHz Open Access Rules — (Update: Reaction from Verizon Wireless at end of post.) — On Friday, Google urged the FCC to block Verizon Wireless' $4.7 bil. successful bid for the C Block band of spectrum in the recently completed 700 MHz auction unless Verizon …
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Arn / MacRumors:
Apple Includes Chinese Handwriting Recognition in iPhone 2.0 Beta — Apple has quietly included handwriting recognition for Chinese (Traditional and Simplified) into the latest iPhone Firmware 2.0 beta. When you select Chinese input, you are given the option to use handwriting recognition allowing …
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Mark Davis / Official Google Blog:
Moving to Unicode 5.1 — Google has just begun supporting Unicode 5.1, less than one month after it was released. It's now available in search, so people speaking languages such as Malayalam can now search for words containing the new characters in Unicode 5.1.
Josh Catone / ReadWriteWeb:
The Facebook Platform is Biased Toward “Fun” Apps — Over the weekend, a chart from the Flowing Data blog “revealed” that Facebook applications, on the whole, are silly. Much of the discussion that followed was of the patronizing “see, we told you Facebook apps were dumb” variety.
Glenn Derene / Popular Mechanics:
Digital Transition Looms, but Do Americans Have a Right to TV? — In his biweekly trends column, PM's tech editor crunches the numbers on just how much it costs to get everyone onboard the digital bandwagon. — Next February, somewhere in America, — someone out there is going to flip …
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Why The Lucky Stiff / hackety org:
Sneaking Ruby Through Google App Engine (and Other Strictly Python Places) — Despite all the clicking that has been done on a certain star.gif, I really don't think Ruby is coming to Google's App Engine. Google doesn't have much of a toe in the Ruby scene and App Engine is clearly entrenched …
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Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Facebook Search Box Is Low-Hanging Fruit For Microsoft — Now that the Microsoft play for Yahoo appears to be over (appears to be), everyone and their grandparents are speculating about what Microsoft and Yahoo are going to do now. One quick thing that Microsoft could do to increase …
Owen Thomas / Valleywag:
Why Silicon Valley just won't shut up about FriendFeed — “Cathy Brooks is a typically unapologetic Silicon Valley Web addict,” writes Brad Stone in the New York Times. “Last week alone, she produced more than 40 pithy updates on the text messaging service Twitter, uploaded two dozen videos …
