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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? — Yahoo shareholder Eric Jackson announced Tuesday he is dropping his efforts to launch a proxy fight against the Internet search pioneer, citing cost concerns of going it alone. — Jackson's decision comes …
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Techland, TechCrunch, IDG News Service, Tech Check with Jim Goldman, GMSV and Electronista
Jim / craigslist blog:
Unlawful and Unfair — We filed a complaint in California today, charging eBay with unlawful and unfair competition, misappropriation of proprietary information, deceptive passing-off, business interference, false advertising, phishing attacks, free-riding, trademark infringement, trademark dilution, and breaches of fiduciary duty.
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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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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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MobileWhack.com, CrunchGear, CrackBerry.com blogs, Gizmodo, Unwired View, Gadgetell, SlashPhone and Electronista
Andrea Frome / Google LatLong:
Street View revisits Manhattan — In the last couple months, we've brought you 14 new Street View cities. Now we're touching up Manhattan, one of the first locations we launched. The new imagery is more recent; for example, we now have the appropriately-named New Museum in the Bowery in its near-complete state:
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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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Vasanth Sridharan / Silicon Alley Insider:Google Hands Out $1.25 Million To 50 Android App Winners (GOOG)
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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.
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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!
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Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Facebook pulls ‘stalker list’ tool after Gawker exposes it — A post on Gawker yielded a moderate wave of panic across the Web when it asserted that by typing the “down” arrow into Facebook's search box, you could see a list of the five people who view your profile the most: Not quite.
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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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EarthLink, Inc.:
EarthLink to Discontinue Operation of Its Municipal Wi-Fi Network in Philadelphia — Decision comes after EarthLink's agreement to transfer network to non-profit for free unravels — Wi-Fi customers notified about 30-day transition period and alternative access offers
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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 …
Rob Larson / First Look:
Times Reader Beta for Mac Coming This Month — A beta version of Times Reader for Mac users will be released this month. In building Times Reader for the Mac we've focused on providing the core set of features that have made the PC version popular. These include the easy-to-read paginated format …
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
The Delusions Of Nathan Myhrvold — from the misrepresenting-the-truth dept — Nathan Myhrvold may not have done much of note yet with Intellectual Ventures, but he sure is good at getting press attention. It seems to come in waves, too, with multiple stories popping up all around the same time.
Daniel Terdiman / Geek Gestalt:
How valuable are you on Twitter? — When blogger Robert Scoble began to post updates on Twitter about the China earthquake, the information spread quickly to other users. Statistically, Scoble is one of the most ‘listened to’ users of the service. — At around 11:50 p.m. Pacific time Sunday night …
