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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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Giving Up on Yahoo, Microsoft Rethinks Its Internet Options — Software Giant Cites Divide Over Price; The Google Factor — Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Jerry Yang didn't really want Microsoft Corp. to buy his company. By Saturday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer didn't want that either …
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Yahoo Execs' Reaction: “I Need Some Prozac” — Be careful what you wish for, Jerry Yang. — Because after talking to a dozen Yahoo execs over the weekend after the Microsoft takeover deal cratered, most of whom are vice presidents or above, I have to say that your stock drop isn't the worst thing …
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:Yahoo Next Steps: Google Deal, AOL Purchase & Pleasing Investors
Miguel Helft / New York Times:A Yahoo Shareholder on What Might Have Been
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:Ballmer's Out? When Pigs Fly!
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:Why Yahoo (YHOO) Should Go Ahead With Google Outsourcing Deal (GOOG)
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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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The Boy Genius Report:
BlackBerry “Niagara”: The 3G-less BlackBerry 9000 — So you know how we've been talking about the BlackBerry 9000's ridiculously high selling price? Well, it looks like RIM is gearing up to launch a 3G-less BlackBerry 9000 so to speak. It looks pretty similar but there are also a few changes …
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Matt / Xobni:
Xobni Launches Public Beta — Today is an exciting day for everyone at Xobni. After seven months of invite-only beta, and over two years of product development, we're proud to announce that Xobni is now publicly available for anyone to download. Xobni can be downloaded for free here.
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Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
What's happening at LinkedIn? Is it getting bought? — Something's up at business social network LinkedIn. The Mountain View, Calif. company's board meeting last week went way over the scheduled time, and sources tell us there's some “good” news coming.
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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.
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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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 …
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Times of India:
China mounts cyber attacks on Indian sites — NEW DELHI: China's cyber warfare army is marching on, and India is suffering silently. Over the past one and a half years, officials said, China has mounted almost daily attacks on Indian computer networks, both government and private, showing its intent and capability.
Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
Mosso Launches CloudFS — Amazon S3 Competitor — Cloud hosting provider Mosso (part of Rackspace) is announcing the launch of CloudFS today in private beta. CloudFS is similar to Amazon's S3 simple storage offering. Pricing will start at at $0.15 per gigabyte, upon release, including replicated copies for data protection.
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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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 …
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