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Tom Neumayr / Apple:
HBO & Apple Bring Critically Acclaimed Television Programming to the iTunes Store — Favorites Including “The Sopranos” and “Sex and the City” Now Available on iTunes — HBO and Apple® today announced that programming from HBO is now available for purchase and download on the iTunes® Store (www.itunes.com).
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HBO programming now available on iTunes — HBO and Apple today announced that customers can now purchase and download critically acclaimed HBO shows — including such Emmy Award-winning programs as The Sopranos, Sex and the City, Deadwood, and Rome — from iTunes.
The Boy Genius Report:
BlackBerry Thunder, the touchscreen BlackBerry we've all been waiting for — Since we were the first ones to break the news about a touchscreen BlackBerry device, it's only fitting that we follow up and give y'all the real lowdown on it! This is going to excite a lot of people, but anger many.
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Simon Pope / Apple:
Apple Executives to Showcase Mac OS X Leopard and OS X iPhone Development Platforms at WWDC 2008 Keynote — Apple® today announced that a team of Apple executives, led by CEO Steve Jobs, will kick off the company's annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) with a keynote address beginning …
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CNBC.com:
Icahn May Launch Proxy Fight with Yahoo — Billionaire investor Carl Icahn is considering launching a proxy fight at Yahoo, according to people who have spoken with Icahn. — Icahn has declined to comment. — Late last week, Icahn began building a significant position in Yahoo …
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Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News.com:Yahoo shareholder bows out of launching proxy fight, Icahn to step in?
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HP:
HP to Acquire EDS for $13.9 Billion — EDS shareholders to receive $25.00 per share in cash for each EDS share — Transaction expected to more than double HP's revenue from services, furthering its standing as world's largest technology company — PALO ALTO, Calif., and PLANO, Texas, May 13, 2008
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
HP-EDS: It's About The Clouds, Baby! — Updated: With the Microsoft-Yahoo battle fading from the dynamic random memories of our over stimulated brains, it is time to turn our attention to Hewlett-Packard's $13.9 billion deal to acquire EDS, a services giant in its own right. The news was announced this morning.
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Google Search To Surpass Size of Microsoft Windows in 2009 — Why is Microsoft (MSFT) so concerned about Google? (GOOG) Lots of reasons, one of which is this: By this time next year, Google's search business will be larger and more profitable than the most profitable and legendary monopoly in history—Microsoft Windows.
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Richard Waters / Financial Times:
Google triumphant: Search wars look settled — Eric Schmidt was doing his level best late last week not to gloat. With Microsoft dropping its attempted takeover of Yahoo, the Google chief executive had just seen his arch-rival abandon its most direct attack yet on Google's growing dominance of online search and advertising.
Android Developers Blog:
The Top 50 Applications — As you may have heard, the results from Android Developer Challenge Part 1, Round 1 were announced to all the participants late last week. We're still working on pulling together a more extensive listing for each application that made it into the top 50 …
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Silicon Alley Insider, ReadWriteWeb, InformationWeek, mocoNews.net and dailywireless.org
Brad Stone / Bits:
Craigslist Hits Back at eBay — It's war, then. — Two weeks after eBay sued Craigslist, the classified ad site, for violating its rights as a minority shareholder, Craigslist has countersued in California state court, alleging unfair competition, misappropriation of proprietary information and a host of other grievances.
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Justin Scheck / Wall Street Journal:
Dell Tries to Revive Its Game PCs — Company to Drop Some Niche Models In Bet on Alienware — Dell Inc. is taking a surprising step to reinvigorate its business in specialty gaming personal computers: abandoning several of its most popular models to focus on what it sees as its premium line.
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Opera:
Opera Mini — the people's choice — Today, Opera Software announced the availability of Opera Mini 4.1, the newest version of the award-winning browser that works on nearly every mobile phone. Opera Mini 4.1 revolutionizes the way people get the Web on their Mobile phone.
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jkOnTheRun, The Mobile Gadgeteer, Gadgetell, UMPCPortal, PalmAddicts, CrackBerry.com blogs, SlashPhone and Unwired View
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Microsoft:
Microsoft Mac BU Delivers Strongest Launch in History of Office for Mac — Group releases Service Pack 1, announces the return of Visual Basic for Applications in next version. — Microsoft Corp.'s Macintosh Business Unit (Mac BU) today announced details about the success of Office 2008 …
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PubMatic:
Online Advertising Impacted by U.S. Economic Slowdown — PubMatic Ad Network Pricing Index Shows 23 percent Drop in Ad Rates — PubMatic (www.pubmatic.com), the world's first service that automates and optimizes ad inventory decision-making for Web publishers, today released …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Mozilla Stealth Data Project Could Be Just What The Internet Needs — One of the most frustrating tasks about my job is finding reliable traffic and other usage data about websites. — But today, Mozilla CEO John Lilly and VP Engineering Mike Schroepfer said they may fix that problem in the future …
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Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
StumbleUpon's Stumble Video adds new content partners — Media “discovery” site StumbleUpon announced Tuesday that its video service, Stumble Video, has a host of new content available: content sites College Humor, Funny or Die, and VBS.tv, as well as video-hosting sites Vimeo, DailyMotion, and Veoh.
