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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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Nicholas Carlson / Valleywag:New iPhone will hit stores June 12, feature improved speakers and camera
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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?
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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.
Royal Pingdom:
Social network downtime Jan-Apr 2008 — This survey shows how much 16 of the largest and most popular social network sites have been unavailable during the first four months of 2008. How much has MySpace, Facebook, Friendster, Twitter, LiveJournal and many others been offline? Read on to find out.
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Silicon Alley Insider, CenterNetworks, WebProNews, The Social Times, WebGuild, Podcasting News, Mashable! and Data Center Knowledge
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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 …
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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One Microsoft Way, The Register, Microsoft Watch, Electronista, Engadget and GottaBeMobile
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Microsoft:
Zune Expands Beyond Music to Deliver Integrated All-in-One Entertainment Experience — New software updates bring popular television shows to online store, enhancements to online music community and subscription service. — Microsoft Corp. today announced that Zune, the company's …
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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 …
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.
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 …
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 …
Leigh / Leigh's Blitherings:
Have We Crossed The Chasm? — Geoffrey Moore wrote Crossing the Chasm over 15 years ago and it's still probably the foremost framework used for launching new technology products. Wikipedia gives a nice summary to the theories basic premise: — “Moore's key insight is that the groups adopt innovations for different reasons.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Global Telcos Plotting a Skype Rival? — AT&T, in conjunction with some 10-15 incumbent telecom carriers — British Telecom, Deutsche Telecom and NTT among them — is plotting to launch a Skype competitor, according to a research report issued this morning by ThinkEquity analyst Anton Wahlman.
