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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Sue Decker's Email To Yahoo Employees On Weiner's Departure — The news is now official - Yahoo's EVP Jeff Weiner has officially bailed. President Sue Decker addresses the troops in an all hands email, below. These types of emails leak regularly, of course (I actually think companies …
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Accel and Greylock Appoint Jeff Weiner as Executive in Residence — Accel Partners and Greylock Partners, leading venture capital firms, today jointly announced the appointment of Jeff Weiner as an Executive in Residence with both firms. His new role becomes effective in early September 2008.
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
As BoomTown Already Said, Weiner Moves to Accel and Greylock — Accel Partners and Greylock Partners will officially announce today that Yahoo Network head Jeff Weiner will become an executive in residence at both Silicon Valley venture capital firms. — That obviously means Weiner …
Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Why Saul Hansell is wrong on AP — In most cases, I'm all for a dose of rationality and common sense amid the short-attention-span Drama 2.0 that makes up much of the blogosphere. That's exactly what New York Times blogger Saul Hansell is selling in his latest post at the Bits blog …
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Patrick Nielsen Hayden / Making Light:
The Associated Press wants to charge you $12.50 to quote five words from them — The Associated Press, having already announced its intention to harrass bloggers who publish snippets as short as 39 words from AP stories, has now published a web form through which intimidated parties can give …
Bernard Lunn / ReadWriteWeb:
11 Search Trends That May Disrupt Google — My first post for ReadWriteWeb (nearly a year ago) started with the premise that search was “game over”, that Google had won and the only opportunity left was (re)search - i.e. what one does after the basic search.
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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Google easily extending dominance to mobile search market — Google managed to spank the rest of the mobile search world during the first quarter of 2008, according to data from Nielsen Mobile. The search giant managed to capture 61 percent of the mobile search market in the first four months of the year …
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Jason Chen / Gizmodo:
Ineligible AT&T Customers Need to Pay Full Price For iPhone 3G — AT&T just gave us new details on how their upgrading plans will work for the iPhone 3G. The company is treating the iPhone 3G pretty much just like any other phone in that people who are ineligible for upgrades have to pay the full, unsubsidized price for the phone.
Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
Brightcove Gutted and Rebuilt — Not a week after deriding Brightcove for its difficult user interface in a story about newly emerged competitor Delve Networks, the Cambridge-based video hosting company is releasing a completely rebuilt version of its service into private beta.
Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Demand for Data Puts Engineers in Spotlight — In Silicon Valley, the stars have long been charismatic marketing visionaries and cool-nerd software wizards. By contrast, mechanical engineers who design and run computer data centers were traditionally regarded as little more than blue-collar workers in the high-tech world.
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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
BlackBerry Javelin in the wild — As we understand it, RIM's so-called Javelin is a new BlackBerry completely devoid of 3G that's currently on track for a mid-2009 (yes, 2009) launch. That sucks, yes, but at least it'll look mighty purty if these shots of an engineering dummy in the wild are any indication.
Janko Roettgers / NewTeeVee:
Vuze Becomes Social, Tears Down Walls — The popular BitTorrent media platform Vuze, formerly known as Azureus, is releasing a major update later today that offers some social features as well as a web-wide search functionality. Users of the new client version 3.1 will be able to connect …
Mike Ricciuti / CNET News.com:
Adobe updates LiveCycle business software — Adobe Systems is updating and expanding its LiveCycle software for building business-oriented Web applications. — The company on Tuesday is expected to announce LiveCycle Enterprise Suite Update 1, which adds new content management features along …
John P. Falcone / CNET News.com:
HP MediaSmart Connect due in July for $349 — HP's line of MediaSmart TVs include the built-in ability to stream digital media from your home network and the Internet straight to their screens. But for the vast majority of us who don't own an HP TV, the company will soon have a second option: the MediaSmart Connect.
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Apple's iPhone 3G Is The New iPod, Sales To Triple (AAPL) — The iPhone 3G's faster speeds, cheaper price, apps platform, and wider distribution will lead to a breakout holiday quarter for Apple (AAPL), reminiscent of the iPod's December quarter in 2005, when sales tripled year-over-year …
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Josh Lowensohn / Webware.com:
Flock catches up with Firefox 3 in sophomore release — Sequels aren't always as good as what comes before them (see Indiana Jones 2) but when it comes to technology and software, newer usually means better. — Flock, the self-proclaimed social browser, is catching up with the times …
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