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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
MySpace Embraces DataPortability, Partners With Yahoo, Ebay And Twitter — MySpace is announcing a broad ranging embrace of data portability standards today, along with data sharing partnerships with Yahoo, Ebay, Twitter and their own Photobucket subsidiary.
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Wall Street Journal:
Microsoft Move Suggests Not Reversing Yahoo Decision — Microsoft Corp. released potential proxy board members from their agreements to serve in the event it made a hostile bid for Yahoo Inc., following the software giant's decision last weekend to end its effort to buy the Internet company.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Microsoft Tells Its Alternate Yahoo Board Members It Won't Be Needing Them — Microsoft is taking one of its options off the table in its on-again, off-again pursuit of Yahoo. It has told members of the alternate board of directors it had lined up for a possible hostile proxy battle over Yahoo that it won't be needing their services.
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Associated Press:
Mamma Mia! Papa John's raking in the dough online — LOUISVILLE, Kentucky (AP) — Sometimes during peak hours, the phones are silent in Andy Freitas' pizza restaurants, yet the cooks are busy keeping pace with hungry customers. — That's because orders are rolling in through the Internet.
Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Yahoo tests revamped search with ‘Glue Pages’ — Update 11:45 p.m.: I updated with new detail from Yahoo, further information from the site, and some analysis. — Yahoo has begun testing Glue Pages, a major new way to present search results that caters to its strength as an Internet portal.
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Search Engine Land, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Traffick and Search Engine Roundtable
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Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
RIAA: DRM not dead and likely will make comeback — To Garnett's right is the MPAA's Fritz Attaway — LOS ANGELES—News of DRM's death has been greatly exaggerated, according to an executive with the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). — At a time when the top recording …
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Google Ends Hello — Google is shutting down Hello, Picasa's photo sharing service which was part of the Picasa acquisition back in 2004. On the program, Wikipedia writes: — Hello by Google's Picasa is [was] a free computer program that allows users to send images across the Internet and publish them to their blogs.
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PR Newswire:
Limelight Networks Reports First Quarter 2008 Results — Signed 183 new customers, up from 84 new customers in last year's first quarter, including 35 international and 77 signed in March — Introduced Limelight Live Event Services - a solution of professional services and advanced technologies …
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Paul Miller / Engadget:
Dell Inspiron 1435, 1535 and 1735 leaked — While not quite as exciting as March's week of Latitude scoops, we've got ourselves some infos on what look to be Dell's upcoming Inspiron 1435, 1535 and 1735 consumer laptops. Seems they'll all be sharing the same basic design language …
Microsoft:
Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for May 2008 — Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification issued: May 8, 2008 — Microsoft Security Bulletins to be issued: May 13, 2008 — This is an advance notification of security bulletins that Microsoft is intending to release on May 13, 2008.
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Larry Dignan / Zero Day:Microsoft previews three critical bulletins; two for Office
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Maggie Shiels / BBC:
Google denies staff ‘brain drain’ — Technology reporter, in Silicon Valley — Google has denied there is a brain drain of talent at the firm following the departure of its communications boss to social network Facebook. — Elliot Schrage's departure as head of global communications …
Rob Hof / Tech Beat:
LIVEBLOGGING: Schmidt, Page, and Brin Speak Before Google's Annual Meeting — I'm sort of liveblogging a talk that Google honchos Eric Schmidt, Sergey Brin and Larry Page is having with reporters before the company's annual meeting. I'll post their comments in chunks as it goes along... and clean it up later.
Peter Cohen / LinuxWorld.com:
OpenOffice.org 3.0 beta shrugs off X11 — The OpenOffice.org Community has announced the public beta release of OpenOffice.org 3.0, a new version of the free office productivity software suite for various platforms including Mac OS X. — Developed as an alternative to pricey packages …
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PC World, One More Thing, Lifehacker, Compiler, The Unofficial Apple Weblog and The Tech Report
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Shawn Fanning Finally Gets A Real Payday: Electronic Arts Buys Rupture For $30 Million — Shawn Fanning, best known for founding Napster, has a new job. He will be working at Electronic Arts, which is about to buy his social-network-gaming startup Rupture for $30 million, according to sources with knowledge of the deal.
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Irwin Block / canada.com:
Apple offers $45 credit for Canadian owners of older iPods — Following two class-action lawsuits, Apple Canada Inc. is offering $45 credits to Canadian residents who own a new first-, second- or third-generation iPod purchased before June 24, 2004. — The proposed settlement …
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
The noise reduction system — David Risley this morning wrote about all the noise in all these systems like Twitter and FriendFeed. Of course that kicked off a whole discussion over on FriendFeed. — Oh, the glorious noise! Everyone loves beating me up for causing the noise. No, I am not the cause.
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
House overwhelmingly passes controversial PRO-IP Act — The House of Representatives has approved the Pro-IP Act, a controversial legislative proposal that aims to impose stricter penalties for copyright infringement. The bill, which has strong support from the content industry, passed by a vote of 410 to 10.
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Rafat Ali / mocoNews.net:
Virgin Mobile USA In Merger Talks With Helio; Other Options Still Being Considered — Virgin Mobile USA (NYSE: VM), the MVNO which just reported its Q1 earnings earlier this week, is in talks with the much smaller and troubled MVNO Helio, we have learned, even as other PE and strategic players are still circling both the companies.
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