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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Data Portability: It's The New Walled Garden — The scuffle today between Facebook and Google has very little to do with user privacy and everything to do with user control. A huge battle is underway between Google, MySpace and Facebook around control of user profiles and, therefore, users themselves.
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:Facebook has a point where it comes to your privacy
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Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News.com:
Jerry Yang prepares troops for proxy battle — Editors note: This post was updated Friday, May 16, at 5:50 a.m. to include a letter sent to Yahoo executives concerning the proxy fight. — With billionaire investor Carl Icahn launching a proxy fight Thursday to unseat Yahoo's board of directors …
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Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:Jerry To Yahoos: Please Keep Working! Jerry To Bosses: Here's What To Say (YHOO)
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Associated Press:
France's Orange signs new iPhone deal with Apple — France's Orange to sell iPhone in Middle East, Africa and other European countries — PARIS (AP) — French wireless operator Orange said Friday it has signed a deal with Apple Inc. to sell its iPhone in the Middle East, Africa and several European countries.
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Euronext:
FRANCE TELECOM : Orange brings the iPhone to customers in Europe, Middle East and Africa — Orange brings the iPhone to customers in Europe, Middle East and Africa — Orange today announced a new agreement with Apple to bring the iPhone to Orange customers in Austria, Belgium …
Jonathan Fildes / BBC:
‘$100 laptop’ platform moves on — An independent effort to develop the software originally designed for the $100 laptop has been launched. — Sugar Labs will take the laptop's innovative interface, known as Sugar, to the “next level of usability and utility”, according to its founders.
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Wade Roush / Xconomy:
Bender Creates Sugar Labs—New Foundation to Adapt OLPC's Laptop Interface for Other Machines — Wade Roush wrote: — Walter Bender, the former president of software and content for the One Laptop Per Child Foundation, contacted Xconomy this morning to alert us to the creation of Sugar Labs …
New York Post:
YAHOO! SEEKING OPEN ALLIANCE WITH GOOGLE — Yahoo! executives are scrambling to finalize a search-advertising pact with Google in the face of a fresh challenge to its independence from billionaire investor Carl Icahn, The Post has learned. — According to two sources close to the situation …
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Vodafone:
Vodafone Announces the Acquisition of ZYB — Vodafone* today announces that it has agreed to acquire 100% of ZYB, a privately-owned company based in Denmark which operates a social networking and online management tool enabling mobile phone users to back-up and share their handsets' contact and calendar information online.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:Danish Mobile Social Network ZYB Acquired By Vodafone For €31.5 million
Andy Space / 9 to 5 Mac:
MacBook upgrade set for Q3 — Apple is moving toward the release of a redesigned MacBook, a new report emanating from the company's Asian Mac manufacturers claims. — AU Optronics Corp. and Chi Mei Optoelectronics Corp. have been signed-up to produce flat-panel screens for the new MacBook models …
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Stephanie Clifford / New York Times:
Yahoo and WPP in Partnership — YAHOO plans to announce Friday that it has formed a partnership with the WPP Group, the advertising holding company, that will give WPP's clients a broader swath of Web sites where they can aim their messages. — Under the deal, the thousands of Web publishers …
Ashlee Vance / The Register:
AMD cries foul over Intel's ‘river of cash’ flowing to Dell — Shows Intel Chairman begging for forgiveness — AMD vs Intel It's document season in the ongoing anti-trust lawsuit between AMD and Intel. Last week, the companies fought over witness testimony and earlier this week …
Kelly Fiveash / The Register:
World economy group gives IPv6 big push — Warns about depletion of IPv4 addresses — The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) sounded an alarm bell yesterday over the rapid depletion of IPv4 internet addresses and gave the IPv6 protocol another push.
Umair Haque:
Facebook and The Future of Competition — Last week, I discussed Facebook's relentless evil, how that was a profound strategic error, and why the costs of evil are starting to outweigh the benefits - for everyone, not just Facebook. — Now, that's a pretty unorthodox argument, and I took a lot of heat for it: what is evil, anyways?
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Ben Kuchera / Ars Technica:
Nintendo Wii outsells 360, PS3, PS2, PSP combined in April — The NPD console sales numbers have been released for April, stuffed with fascinating content. How did the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of Grand Theft Auto stack up against each other? Did Mario Kart Wii sell as many copies as expected?
