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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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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Microsoft's Yahoo Offer: $8 Billion Stock Buyback; $1 Billion for Search — Oh, they're plenty irked in Redmond today, in the wake of Yahoo's picking of the Google ad outsourcing deal over a proposal by Microsoft. — And what exactly was that offer? — Well, according to people familiar …
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Why Yahoo Passed On Microsoft's Search Deal (New Details!) — As of last weekend, Yahoo (YHOO) had two deals on the table: A Microsoft (MSFT) search deal and a Google (GOOG) search deal. Yahoo chose the Google deal. After speaking with a person familiar with Microsoft's thinking …
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 …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Social Networking Gets a Sanity Check — After years of hype, noise and funding, the social networking sector is finally getting a harsh, but necessary, sanity check. — Today there are numbers out from comScore that indicate plateauing growth for the big two — MySpace and Facebook …
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Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Why Facebook is now the number one social network in the world, and why this matters — “At first we were worried about MySpace, but then we realized that people use it differently from our site,” an employee at social network Facebook told me over a year ago.
Scott Rosenberg / Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard:
AP responds on blog excerpting — I just received email that I assume is genuine with this statement from the AP: … Let's unpack this just a bit: AP is saying it's OK to link, but that they “get concerned” over use that is “more reproduction than reference or when others are encouraged to cut and paste.”
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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.”
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:FU AP — I talked to a reporter this week about the embattled …
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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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Don Reisinger / The Digital Home:If it can't find a solution, Google should kill YouTube
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Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
Fake Steve Jobs Gets Real New Job: Leaving Forbes For Newsweek — Forbes editor Dan Lyons, best known to most of you as Fake Steve Jobs, is leaving his employer after a 10-year run and jumping to Newsweek, where he'll take tech columnist Steve Levy's old slot.
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Steve / The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs:Nothing to worry about, but I'm taking some time off
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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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Gina Trapani / Lifehacker:
Google Browser Sync Discontinued, No Firefox 3 Support — Reader hominid.todd says that a Google rep emailed him about the long-awaited status of the Browser Sync extension for Firefox 3. Turns out they're discontinuing development on it. Here's Google's response to hominid.todd's inquiry:
GamesIndustry.biz:
Sony working on ‘break apart’ motion PS3 pad — Sony Computer Entertainment is working on a new controller for the PlayStation 3, which features the ability to ‘break apart’ into two separate units, each of which contains an accelerometer for ‘Wiimote-like’ motion-sensing functionality, GamesIndustry.biz understands.
Jen Mazzon / Official Google Docs Blog:
Upload your PDFs! — I spend a good chunk of time each week combing our Google Docs Help group, where users share questions and information with each other, and with me! (You'll see me as Google Guide Jenmazz in the group.) The questions people ask tell me how we need to clarify and simplify …
