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Yahoo!:
Yahoo! to Strengthen Competitive Position in Online Advertising Through Non-Exclusive Agreement With Google — Agreement Advances Yahoo!'s Open Strategy; Enhances Ability to — Compete in Converging Search and Display Marketplace — Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company …
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Yahoo!:
Yahoo! Announces Microsoft Talks Have Concluded — Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, today announced that discussions with Microsoft regarding a potential transaction — whether for an acquisition of all of Yahoo! or a partial acquisition — have concluded.
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The Official Google Blog:
Our agreement to provide ad technology to Yahoo! — Today, we announced a non-exclusive advertising agreement that will provide Yahoo! with access to our AdSense for search and AdSense for content advertising programs on their U.S. and Canadian web properties.
Microsoft:
Microsoft Issues Statement Regarding Yahoo! — Microsoft Corp. issued the following statement today regarding Yahoo! — REDMOND, Wash. — June 12, 2008 — Microsoft Corp. today issued the following statement: — “In the weeks since Microsoft withdrew its offer to acquire Yahoo! …
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Yahoogle?: Microsoft Will “Let Loose the Dogs of War” — With the ad-outsourcing deal between Yahoo (YHOO) and Google (GOOG) finally announced-in a press release so parsed and careful, it makes me immediately suspect-one Microsoft (MSFT) source joked to me: — “Let loose the dogs of war.”
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google/Yahoo Search Partnership Announcement At 1:30 This Afternoon (Updated) — Yahoo and Google will make a joint announcement at 1:30 California time this afternoon, we've heard from a reliable source close to one of the companies. What is the announcement?
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Google:Google Announces Non-Exclusive Advertising Services Agreement …
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Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:Yahoo ends all talks with Microsoft, shares plunge
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Tech Confidential
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Redesign A First Step In Bringing Order To The MySpace Chaos — Los Angeles based social network MySpace, which has 115 million monthly visitors worldwide (Comscore, April 2008), will be launching a redesign of its site next week. The first phase of the project, internally called “MySpace 2.0,” will launch on Wednesday June 18.
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Orli Yakuel / GO2WEB20 Blog:
Testing Google Friend Connect, 1, 2, 3! — Finally, with a little help from Google, I managed to add Google's Friend Connect to my blog. — Basically, Friend Connect is an admin page with several social gadgets that you can customize and embed in your site or blog.
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Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
What to do about wireless termination fees — Early termination fees for wireless cell phone contracts came under fire during a Federal Communications Commission hearing Thursday as commissioners examined an industry-backed proposal that could soften the blow of these fees for some consumers.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Facebook No Longer The Second Largest Social Network — It was sort of inevitable given Facebook's monster growth over the last few years, but April 2008 was the milestone: Facebook officially caught up to MySpace in terms of unique monthly worldwide visitors, according to data released by Comscore and shown above.
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Miguel Helft / Bits:
More Top Yahoos Heading for the Exits — A pair of senior Yahoo executives is leaving the beleaguered Internet company, continuing a steady exodus of executives that began more than two years ago. — The latest to leave are Jeff Weiner, executive vice president of the network division …
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Pete Kazanjy / Team Fusion:
Virtual Leopard Server, Uncaged: Virtualized Mac OS X Leopard Server on VMware Fusion 2.0 — As many of you may recall, at Macworld in January, we gave you a preview of Mac OS X Leopard Server installing and running as a virtual machine on Mac OS X. — Well, in honor of Apple's Worldwide …
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Bruce Campion-Smith / Toronto Star:
Ottawa brings copyright act into digital age — New rules allow for personal copies of music, books — but allows creators to seek damages for piracy — Confused? Consult a lawyer, government suggests — OTTAWA — Canadian consumers could face damages of $500 and upwards …
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Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Twitter brings in big guns from Pivotal Labs to help rebuild its troubled infrastructure — Twitter, the messaging service that many of us love — and love to complain about when it experiences downtime — has hired a premier software development firm to help it rebuild its infrastructure, we've heard and confirmed with the company.
Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Apple considering iPhone sales through universities — Apple is mulling a plan that would see the company extend sales of its upcoming iPhone 3G through top universities, and is separately considering a new protection service plan for college students, AppleInsider has learned.
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Study: consumers lust after high-speed broadband, not HDTV — Broadband services and speeds are ranked higher than any other “new” service when it comes to their importance to consumers. New survey results from Pike & Fischer Broadband Advisory Services show that while HDTV and digital phone service …
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Kylewar / Tales from the Microsoft Surface team:
Viva Las Virtual Vegas!!! — Hello from Vegas! The Surface and Harrah's teams have been burning the midnight oil for the past few days getting everything set for our next public deployment. — Today, Harrah's will become our second partner to deploy Surface.
