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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Massive Destruction Of Shareholder Value, Employee Morale and Internet Balance Of Power — I don't believe that there is anything Yahoo could do at this point to further destroy their business that would surprise me. — At 1:35 pm EST yesterday we posted that we believed Yahoo would announce …
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Associated Press:
Yahoo! partners with Google — SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) — Yahoo!'s efforts to revive takeover talks with Microsoft Corp. have reached a dead end, prompting the Internet pioneer to hire online search leader Google Inc. to handle some of its advertising sales.
Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News.com:
Analysts don't rule out a Microsoft-Yahoo deal just yet — Updated June 13 at 8:35 a.m. PDT with analyst comments on the Google-Yahoo search ad deal. — Shares of Yahoo continued to get hammered in early-morning market trading on Friday, in a sign that its Google search ad announcement …
Robert Hof / Business Week:Google's Yahoo Rebound Play
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Caroline McCarthy / Webware.com:
MySpace to release major site redesign — Updated at 9:47 p.m. PDT with more details. — News Corp.'s MySpace is set to release a major redesign next week, company representatives said late Thursday evening. The site doesn't look that different; it's still clearly MySpace.
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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.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb: MySpace is a Good Website and You Should Stop Complaining About It
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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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.
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:AP Threatens News Aggregation Site for Short Excerpts
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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 …
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Jonathan Richards / Times of London:
Google: we don't know how to make money from YouTube — ‘A whole new industry’ could be created around video advertising on the web, Google said, but it's not sure how — Google has said that it is still unsure how to make money from YouTube, the enormously popular video-sharing website it owns, but hopes to be able to do so soon.
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Kevin Michaluk / CrackBerry.com blogs:
New BlackBerrry KickStart Images! — Well what do we have here? New images of the BlackBerry KickStart?! w00t! Take a look after the jump for tons images (you can see it from every angle) of the not-yet-announced by RIM BlackBerry flip phone currently codenamed the KickStart!!
Ryan Block / Engadget:
iPhone 3G must be activated in-store (and other followup questions answered) — Yesterday we went over a few of the more confusing bits of the iPhone 3G launch — and let's be honest, the details of this launch are confusing as hell compared to the original go-round.
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James Watts / Official Google Mobile Blog:
Mobile search access gets faster; iGoogle gets easier to use — We at Google are obsessed with making your mobile search experience as fast as possible. With that in mind, we've just updated our mobile homepage to allow for a quicker load time, providing you with even faster access to the information you need while on the go.
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David Robson / New Scientist:
Compressed web phone calls are easy to bug — Plans to compress internet (VoIP) phone calls so they use less bandwidth could make them vulnerable to eavesdropping. Most networks are currently safe, but many service providers are due to implement the flawed compression technology.
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Steve / The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs:
Nothing to worry about, but I'm taking some time off — Folks, just for the record, I'm feeling great, never better, and you know that's true because Apple always tells the truth and we're the most transparent, forthcoming, open and honest company in the world.
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