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Larry Alder / Official Google Blog:
Investing in the future of the open Internet — As you may have read, Google, Comcast, Intel Capital, Time Warner Cable, Bright House Networks and Trilogy Equity Partners have entered into an agreement to invest $3.2 billion in a new wireless broadband company.
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Sprint and Clearwire to Combine WiMAX Businesses, Creating a New Mobile Broadband Company — Intel, Google, Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks to Invest $3.2 Billion in Combined Company, at Target Price of $20.00 per Share — Formation of New Company Brings Together …
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:Sprint, Clearwire Make It Official, Form WiMax Venture
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Yuri Kageyama / Associated Press:
Bill Gates says Microsoft going ‘independent’ way — TOKYO - Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said Wednesday the company isn't pursuing other deals following the withdrawal of its $47.5 billion takeover bid for Yahoo. — He said in Tokyo that the company put “a lot of effort” …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Microsoft's Corporate Development Strategy Changing Daily — Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates told the press in Tokyo yesterday that the company “isn't pursuing other deals following the withdrawal of its $47.5 billion takeover bid for Yahoo.” Their experience dealing with Yahoo, apparently, has put them off acquisitions altogether.
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Karl / DSLreports:
Comcast Considering 250GB Cap, Overage Fees — Insider provides details of new ‘protocol agnostic’ solution — A Comcast insider tells me the company is considering implementing very clear monthly caps, and may begin charging overage fees for customers who cross them.
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Arik Hesseldahl / Business Week:
Apple's Board: Still Room for Schmidt? — The Google CEO's spot on Apple's board could go from awkward to untenable as the search giant's mobile push brushes up against the iPhone — Until now, having Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt sit on Apple's (AAPL) board of directors has made a lot of sense.
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.
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft Live Mesh to get more competition — from Sun — At the opening day of JavaOne on May 6, Sun officials began laying out their vision for a future cloud-computing platform, code-named Hydrazine, that Sun plans to field against competitive offerings from Microsoft, Google, Amazon and others.
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
Test: Does Your ISP Slow Down BitTorrent Traffic? — A while back we posted about the plugin Azureus had developed, which allowed people to check whether their ISP is interfering with their traffic. The results showed that indeed quite a few ISPs were, but the plugin didn't provide the user with direct feedback.
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Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
FORA.tv Raises $4 Million Round from Hearst, Adobe, Others — FORA.tv, referred by TechCrunch as the “C-SPAN of the Web,” has closed a Series A round of venture funding with $4 million from William Randolph Hearst III, Adobe Ventures and other investors. Hearst and Adobe were investors in the original $2 million seed round.
Zero / WabiSabiLabi's blog:
Partnership announcement with OneShield Security — WSL is proud to announce a partnership with OneShield Security for the production of a UTM appliance. The appliance will intergrate a 0day preemtpive engine, based on the knowledge coming from WSL's marketplace and will be based …
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CNN:
Viacom Chairman: Won't Tolerate Piracy By Video Sharing Web Sites — SEOUL -(Dow Jones)- Sumner Redstone, executive chairman of Viacom Inc. (VIA, VIAB) and CBS Corp. (CBS), Tuesday called on Internet operators to step up protection of content providers' copyrights and reiterated …
Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Brightkite: A bright future for mobile social networking? — “Do you have a Brightkite invite yet?” — I was asked that question at least three times at last month's Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, one of those gatherings where an invitation to the latest private-beta social network is a coveted status symbol.
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
$1 Billion of Cash Flow For Yahoo-Google Search Deal? Keep Dreaming — The second reason Yahoo's stock (YHOO) has rocketed higher in the past few days (the first being Hail Mary dreams of a Microsoft (MSFT) deal) is that investors are expecting a whopper of a Google (GOOG) search outsourcing partnership to be announced any day now.
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