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Wall Street Journal:
Sprint Nears Deal With Clearwire — $12 Billion Joint Venture Secures Backing From Intel, Google and Cable Operators — Sprint Nextel Corp. and Clearwire Corp. are close to announcing a $12 billion joint venture that plans to roll out ultra fast wireless Internet access for cellphones …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
U.S. WiMAX Saved by $3.2 Billion Infusion — You can all Xohm now — and call it Clearwire. The much talked about WiMAX joint venture between Clearwire and Sprint Nextel is going to happen and the news is going to come as soon as tomorrow. The combined company is going to be worth $12 billion, The Wall Street Journal reports.
Scott Moritz / Techland:
Sprint and Clearwire cleared for WiMax launch — WiMax is facing a now-or-never moment as Sprint (S) and Clearwire (CLWR) try to finalize terms of a multi-player joint venture. — Nearly five months into his job as Sprint chief, Dan Hesse has a chance to set Sprint free …
The Boy Genius Report:
Apple and AT&T to launch iPhone 3G a lot sooner than we think? — Well, here's the story. Let's start this off by saying that we think this might be a little bit too early, but you never know with Apple. Anyways, we told y'all last year before the first iPhone launched that AT&T employees …
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Jason Chen / Gizmodo:Rumor: AT&T Says No Employee Vacations Between June 15 and July 12 For the 3G iPhone
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Is Yang Still In Control At Yahoo? — Here's the latest Yahoo rumor that we're chasing: The Yahoo board of directors met earlier today and authorized chairman Roy Bostock, not CEO Jerry Yang, to call Ballmer about re-starting negotiations. In fact, this rumor may have been behind the small rally …
Adam Pasick / MediaFile:
Breaking news, Twitter style — News of a possible explosion rippled through the popular online service Twitter on Tuesday, in a preview of what's to come in the realm of breaking news and citizen journalism. Twitter is a so-called microblogging site that allows users to send and receive short messages.
Jesse / 20bits:
The State of the Facebook Platform — Something is wrong in the Facebook developer community. Starting in March I began noticing that the level of activity in the Facebook developers forum was dropping sharply. — But it's numbers that matter, not vague impressions, so does the data back me up?
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Andreessen to Facebook Board? — Silicon Valley luminary Marc Andreessen (pictured here) has been asked to join the board of Facebook, according to several sources with knowledge of the situation. — While the arrangement is not completed yet, sources said the longtime entrepreneur …
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Sarah Lacy:
Why Andreessen Solves Facebook's Board Problem — Facebook has a board problem. Only it's a problem that any control-freak entrepreneur [ok, that's redundant] would love to have. As Kara and others have reported, the sum total of Facebook's board is Mark Zuckerberg, Peter Thiel and Jim Breyer.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Neil Young Announces Collected Work With Dynamic Updates from the Web — I'm here at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco where Neil Young, legendary rocker and the provider of the soundtrack to my early 20's, is announcing a very cool project with Sun Microsystems.
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:Interview with Neil Young on Music Piracy, MP3 Hell and Finding Freaks on the Web
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Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Microsoft resumes XP, Vista updates — Microsoft on Tuesday said it is resuming two major Windows updates that had been halted because of a conflict with one of its own software products. — A week ago, Microsoft delayed the release of Windows XP Service Pack 3 because of a problem …
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Amanda Fehd / Associated Press:
UMG confirms deal with Qtrax to allow free music downloads — SAN JOSE, Calif. - Universal Music Group confirmed Tuesday that it has reached a deal with file-sharing site Qtrax to allow free, legal downloads of UMG music. — Qtrax announced in January that it had the backing of"all the major labels" …
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Marc Andreessen / blog.pmarca.com:
In praise of dual-class stock structures for public companies — A dual-class stock structure means that a company has two different classes of common stock. Each class of stock has the same economic ownership of the company, yet different voting rights. — In a typical scenario …
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Synchronoss: Unlocked iPhones Are Killing Us — A lousy Q1 and scary message from Synchronoss (SNCR), which handles gadget activations for companies like AT&T (T) and Time Warner Cable (TWC): The company has “materially lowered” its growth expectations for 2008 “due in large part …
Mason Inman / New Scientist:
Delaying data could cut net's carbon footprint — As energy prices soar, and governments and organisations start to sweat over their carbon footprint, the energy consumption of the internet is coming under scrutiny. — US academics and researchers from companies Intel and Microsoft …
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Chris Messina / FactoryCity:
When location is everywhere — What if you could take location as a given in the design of web applications and services? By that I mean, what if — when someone who has never used your service before shows up, signs up (ideally with an OpenID!) — and it's both trivial and desirable …
Adam Pash / Lifehacker:
Turn Your Point-and-Shoot into a Super-Camera — If you're using a consumer grade point-and-shoot Canon digital camera, you've got hardware in hand that can support advanced features way beyond what shipped in the box. With the help of a free, open source project called CHDK …
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