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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.
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Los Angeles Times
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 …
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Bloomberg, Los Angeles Times, Silicon Alley Insider, Business Wire, Coop's Corner, CNET News.com and Paul Kedrosky's …
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Rumors of Jerry Yang's Dethroning Are Greatly Exaggerated — Off with the Yahoo CEO's head! — Okay, maybe not so much, at least today. — Indeed, according to many sources, Jerry Yang's head still sits squarely on his neck. — And, moreover, his job as CEO has not been usurped …
Matt Richtel / New York Times:
A $500 Million Week for Grand Theft Auto — SAN FRANCISCO — Grand Theft Auto IV, the latest iteration of the hit video game franchise, racked up first-week sales of $500 million, Take-Two Interactive, the game's publisher, plans to announce on Wednesday. The report exceeded the sales expectations of analysts.
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 …
Marc Canter / Marc's Voice:
My Words are my Sword — So since Kara Swisher did an open conversation with me - last year - and Marc Andreessen has chosen not to respond to my requests for public discourse on Ning's #'s (and I've left Brooke alone) and now that Marc is joining my favorite CEO's board - this is gonna get fun.
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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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Inside Facebook, VentureBeat, Swarming Media, SarahLacy.com, The Inquisitr, Futuristic Play and All Facebook
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.
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THINK / Musings, TomsTechBlog.com, Brij's One More Idea, ParisLemon, Joe Duck and Smart Mobs
Live Search:
More than a pretty face — Along with the release of our new search experience, we'd like to give some background into the design team and process that went into all the changes you see. You might not immediately think of design as being a critical part of a search product, but we think it is …
Greg Sandoval / Washington Post:
Washingtonpost.com wants identities of readers who post comments — LOS ANGELES—If Jim Brady had his way, there would be no guaranteed anonymity for those who post comments to Washingtonpost.com. — Brady, executive editor of The Washington Post Brady has a notable history with this issue and I'll get to that.
Bill Ray / The Register:
Ofcom plays precog on tomorrow's wireless world — Nuke war, meteorite hit could disrupt your signal — Ofcom put healthcare and transport at the top of the agenda in its annual research and development report, released today. — Most of the report, entitled The Wireless World of Tomorrow …
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Guardian
Nathan Willis / Linux.com:
What can you do with a second Ethernet port? — Purchase a new PC or motherboard soon, and the chances are good that it will come with two built-in network interfaces — either two Ethernet jacks or one Ethernet and one Wi-Fi. Tossing in a second adapter is an inexpensive way for the manufacturer …
APC:
eBay boss: “not offering PayPal is like buying heroin” … It took only took four minutes before the booing and hissing began, and not much longer before eBay vice president Simon Smith was comparing people who didn't want to use PayPal to drug addicts. APC was there to give you a blow …
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Techdirt
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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Engadget, One Microsoft Way, TG Daily, Microsoft Watch, The Register, Electronista and GottaBeMobile
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Kaj Arnö:
MySQL Server is Open Source, even Backup extensions — As reported yesterday from CommunityOne: — MySQL Server is and will always remain fully functional and open source, — so will the MySQL Connectors, and — so will the main storage engines we ship. — In addition:
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internetnews.com, CNET News.com, Computerworld, ongoing, rand($thoughts);, Slashdot and Smalltalk Tidbits …
Andy Kessler:
WSJ: The War for the Web — Microsoft was smart to walk away (for now) from its $44 billion bid for Yahoo. It's never good to overpay. But the software giant - whose stock has flatlined for eight years - was onto the right strategy in looking to the Web for growth. — Can't Microsoft build something on its own?
