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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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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.
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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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.”
Google:Google Announces Non-Exclusive Advertising Services Agreement …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:Google/Yahoo Search Partnership Announcement At 1:30 This Afternoon (Updated)
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Rogers Cadenhead / Workbench:
AP Files 7 DMCA Takedowns Against Drudge Retort — I'm currently engaged in a legal disagreement with the Associated Press, which claims that Drudge Retort users linking to its stories are violating its copyright and committing “'hot news' misappropriation under New York state law.”
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Gawker
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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
FU AP — I talked to a reporter this week about the embattled Associated Press and said three times that I didn't want it to die. I might take that back. — The AP has filed truly noxious takedown notices against Rogers Cadenhead's community-created Drudge Retort, arguing copyright violations for quotes from 33 to 79 words long.
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ReadWriteWeb
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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The Social Times
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Paul Miller / Engadget:
Dell E and E Slim revealed, taking on Eee and Air in one fell swoop — We got a nice helping of slides dropped on our virtual doorstep this evening, fleshing out Dell's upcoming netbook — which they seem to be calling the “Dell E.” Um, Eeenteresting name choice, but that doesn't seem set in stone …
Bernard Lunn / ReadWriteWeb:
LinkedIn Could Replace Outlook and SalesForce — I have been a total skeptic on proprietary messaging within social networks. After all, who on earth would want a proprietary tool when e-mail reaches everybody? I love it, though, when circumstances change a deeply ingrained opinion.
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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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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Macworld:
Apple announces Mac, iPhone design award winners — Company hands out 11 awards to software developers — Wednesday Apple handed out its annual Apple Design Awards in 11 categories, including six awards honoring development on the iPhone for the first time. — Mac Awards
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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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Jim Puzzanghera / L.A. Times Tech Blog:Regulators consider terminating the frustration with early-termination fees
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Associated Press
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.
Maggie Jackson / Business Week:
May We Have Your Attention, Please? — With the workplace ever more full of distractions, researchers are developing tools to keep us on task — It's official: The average knowledge worker has the attention span of a sparrow. Roughly once every three minutes, typical cubicle dwellers …
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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