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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Microsoft's Not Bluffing — Look, it might be the biggest poker bluff in history and analysts are once again chattering that Yahoo's ad outsourcing deal with Google might force Microsoft back to make another offer for the Internet portal. — Sorry to be the skunk at Carl Icahn's garden party, but BoomTown doesn't think so.
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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 (YHOO) picking of the Google (GOOG) ad-outsourcing deal over a proposal by Microsoft (MSFT). — And what exactly was that offer?
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Bits, WebProNews, Silicon Alley Insider, Joe Duck, TECH.BLORGE.com, Furrier.org, Oliver Thylmann's Thoughts, Valleywag, Connecting the Dots, TechCrunch and GMSV
Brier Dudley / Brier Dudley's blog:
Microsoft president reveals Yahoo offer, bangs antitrust war drum — The latest scoop on the Microsoft offer that Yahoo rejected comes from a source familiar with Microsoft's position — Kevin Johnson, president of the platforms and services division. — In a memo sent today to employees …
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:Why Yahoo Passed On Microsoft's Search Deal (New Details!)
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BoomTown, StepForth SEO News Blog, L.A. Times Tech Blog, DailyTech, Traffick, CNET News.com and Tech Ticker
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:
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Technorati Raises $7.5 Million, Crashes — Technorati, the once-promising, but has-been blog search engine, has raised $7.5 million of a $10 million Series D round, PE Hub reports, citing a regulatory filing. Returning to invest more: Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Mobius Venture Capital, and FG Incubation, which runs Technorati Japan.
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Robert Holmes / TheStreet.com:
AT&T Mulls Surcharge for High DSL Use — AAPL (The Telecom Connection PICK) CMCSA NFLX T TWC — AT&T T is considering a surcharge for customers who go above the normal amount of downloaded data on the Internet. — AT&T spokesman Michael Coe says that given the trends the company is seeing …
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.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:Social Networking Gets a Sanity Check
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TechCrunch, broadstuff, Gadgetell, TECH.BLORGE.com, The Social Times, Profy.Com, Inside Facebook and Web Community Forum
Matt Richtel / New York Times:
Lost in E-Mail, Tech Firms Face Self-Made Beast — SAN FRANCISCO — The onslaught of cellphone calls and e-mail and instant messages is fracturing attention spans and hurting productivity. It is a common complaint. But now the very companies that helped create the flood are trying to mop it up.
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Mark Evans, John Cook's Venture Blog, Silicon Alley Insider, broadstuff and Business Week
Pthurrott / SuperSite Blog:
Bob Cringely is off his gourd — The Robert X. Cringely stuff was cute once, but it's hit “Fake Steve Jobs” territory now: We know who you are, and it's just not fun or funny anymore. More to the point, The X-Man's latest is just plain crazy talk: … It's worth noting, incidentally, that even the title of this post is horrible.
James Kendrick / jkOnTheRun:
Breaking news- eReader for the iPhone in the works — I read so many ebooks and I do it using the great reader application eReader. I have over 350 books in my eReader bookshelf and was happy to hear from the Fictionwise founder that they would continue to develop versions of eReader for different platforms.
NEWS.com.au:
Bebo blamed for 13-year-old boy's death … SOCIAL networking website Bebo has been blamed for a 13-year-old boy's suicide. — Sam Leeson, a 13 year old student from Tredworth, Gloucestershire, hanged himself in his bedroom apparently after suffering months of bullying online.
Kevin Purdy / Lifehacker:
Speed Testing the Latest Web Browsers — Read the hype on every new web browser released or due out this year, and you'll see claims that every one of them is “faster” than all the others. You could compare super-specific tests and decipher all the code-brain terminology …
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Interview with Microsoft's Robbie Bach, part 2, on Xbox 360 — The biggest business in Robbie Bach's Entertainment & Devices Group at Microsoft is the Xbox 360 video game business. After many years of losses, the game business is poised to turn a profit, as is the E&D group itself, for the fiscal year ending June 30.
Cameron Wilmot / TweakTown:
TweakTown's VIDEO unboxing of ASUS Eee PC 1000H! — TWEAKTOWN EXCLUSIVE We got word that the ASUS Eee PC 1000 and 1000H was to begin selling on Wednesday this week in Taiwan and we instantly set about trying to buy one. — The new 10-inch Intel Atom powered sub-notebooks with 802.11n wireless …
