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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
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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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All about Microsoft, The Social Times, Business Wire, VentureBeat, Associated Press, Bits, The Social Web, ReadWriteWeb, Silicon Alley Insider, DataPortability, mathewingram.com/work, GigaOM, The Globe and Mail, The Real McCrea, Trends in the Living Networks, InformationWeek, cheezhead, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, AppScout, GMSV, FaceReviews, dailywireless.org, eWeek, The Register, Electronista, Valleywag, WebProNews and Brij's One More Idea
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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.
Rob Hof / Tech Beat:
LIVEBLOGGING: Schmidt, Page, and Brin Happy About Failed Microsoft-Yahoo Deal — 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.
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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 …
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Coop's Corner, CNET News.com, Techdirt, Ars Technica, p2pnet, Gizmodo, Electronista and TomsTechBlog.com
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.
Chris Walters / Consumerist:
It's Now Completely Impossible To Sell A Laptop On Ebay — The cool thing about eBay's support system is it will always answer your question; unfortunately, that answer will always be a form letter on how to reset your password, as Timothy discovered when he tried to figure out how to sell …
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 …
Associated Press:
Facebook safeguards will protect young users — HARTFORD, Connecticut (AP) — Facebook, the world's second-largest social networking Web site, will add more than 40 safeguards to protect young users from sexual predators and cyberbullies, attorneys general from several states said Thursday.
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Caroline McCarthy / The Social:After long negotiations, Facebook agrees to safety plan with state AGs
Adam Pash / Lifehacker:
Best Online File Sharing Services — Whether you're trying to share megabytes worth of music with a friend or send an important document to a coworker, nothing outshines a fast, easy-to-use file-sharing service. On Tuesday we asked you to share your favorite file-sharing service …
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.
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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Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Apple developing 3D gaming controller for Apple TV — Apple in a new patent filing reveals that it is conducting research on a 3D remote control system for its Apple TV set-top box that would mimic the functionality of the Nintendo Wii controller and also deliver some features akin to its multi-touch technology.
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Infinite Loop, Brier Dudley's blog, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, MacRumors, Destructoid, Engadget and GoNintendo
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 …
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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Silicon Alley Insider, TECH.BLORGE.com, CrunchGear, IntoMobile, Engadget, Electronista, Phone Scoop and Gizmodo
Arn / MacRumors:
AT&T Officially Lists Wi-Fi Hotspot Access with iPhone Plans [Updated] — AT&T's iPhone website (under ‘Plans’ tab) has been updated to reveal that each iPhone plan now includes access to their “more than 17,000 Wi-Fi hotspots, including Starbucks all for use in the U.S.”
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Infinite Loop, Computerworld, Engadget, MobileWhack.com, Lifehacker, Gizmodo, Wi-Fi Networking News, jkOnTheRun, UNEASYsilence and Podcasting News
Tom Lee / Techdirt:
Does The GPL Still Matter? — from the expired-license? dept — The GNU General Public License heads to court again today, as Skype attempts to defend its distribution of Linux-enabled SMC hardware handsets that appear to be in violation of the operating system's open source license.
