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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo's Executive Structure Crumbles: Lu, Garlinghouse and Makhijani To Leave — It's only been a few hours since we posted the ex-Yahoo Exec tracking spreadsheet, but it's already seriously outdated. Three more execs will be leaving, say sources close to the company: EVP Qi Lu, SVP Brad Garlinghouse and SVP Vish Makhijani.
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Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Updated: Yahoo's Exit Door Blown Open: Garlinghouse,Makhijani, Lu Leaving; Reorg Plans Still Fluid — Yahoo's (NSDQ: YHOO) senior management exodus is picking up steam by the minute: next to go is Brad Garlinghouse, the head of Yahoo's communications and communities group—and author of the infamous …
Miguel Helft / New York Times:Three More Managers Leaving Yahoo
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown: Qi Lu Departure a “Blow” to Yahoo; Makhijani Out Too, Garlinghouse Not Quite Yet
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Facebook's Matt Cohler to Benchmark — In a move BoomTown is still trying to noodle over, longtime Facebook exec Matt Cohler (pictured here) will be leaving the social networking site to become a general partner at Benchmark Capital. — Cohler, who is currently Facebook's VP of Product Management …
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Apple: Oppenheimer Says AT&T iPhone Subsidy Is $325 — AT&T (T) is paying a subsidy of $325 for the new Apple (AAPL) iPhone 3G, according to Oppenheimer analyst Yair Reiner. He notes that the typical smartphone gets a subsidy of about $200. The new phone will be sold at retail for $199 for 8 GB of memory, or $299 for 16 GB.
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Jeremy Zawodny / Jeremy Zawodny's blog:
I'm Joining Craigslist in July — I wasn't really looking for a new job a few months ago when I received an email from Eric Scheide (see Team Bios), the CTO at craigslist. He mentioned that they were looking for someone with MySQL experience and asked if I knew anyone. This sort of thing happens all the time.
Stan Schroeder / Mashable!:
Ymail And Rocketmail? Sorry, Yahoo, But That's Not Enough to Thwart Gmail — At 12 PDT today Yahoo will for the first time start offering free e-mail accounts under two new domains: ymail and rocketmail. Both ymail.com and rocketmail.com already lead to the Yahoo Mail landing page …
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Tom Neumayr / Apple:
iTunes Store Tops Over Five Billion Songs Sold — Apple Renting & Selling Over 50,000 Movies Per Day — Apple® today announced that music fans have purchased and downloaded over five billion songs from the iTunes® Store (www.itunes.com). iTunes is the number one music retailer …
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Don Reisinger / The Digital Home:The music industry abuses us and we're to blame
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Carl Icahn / The Icahn Report:
Corporate Democracy is a Myth — Recently, there has been a great deal of outrage concerning the huge pay and severance packages awarded to a number of CEOs. There has been much criticism of the fact that CEOs earn 520 times that of the average worker. A great deal has been made of the …
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Andrew Donoghue / CNET News.com:
Red Hat unveils fully open-source hypervisor — BOSTON—Linux specialist Red Hat has announced it is developing an embedded hypervisor product that it claims will complement, rather than compete with, its existing virtualization strategy. — Launched here on the first day of the company's …
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Jemima Kiss / Guardian:
Huffington Post to expand into local news across the US — The Huffington Post is planning to expand into local news across the US, founder Arianna Huffington said last night, beginning with a site edited for the community of Chicago. — Huffington said the Chicago site would aggregate news …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Wiki Providers Come Together to Offer Universal Edit Button — Leave it to people in the wiki market to know how to collaborate. Nearly 20 different wiki providers have teamed up to offer a new Firefox extension that will notify users whenever they are on a page that is publicly editable …
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
iPhone suppliers expect to ship 10 million units in Q3 alone — With the simultaneous launch of the iPhone 3G in 22 countries on July 11, Apple's Taiwanese suppiers are anticipating a bigger-than-expected ramp-up in the third quarter of 2008, according to a report Thursday in Taipei-based DigitTimes.
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Nate Westheimer / innonate:
BricaBox: Goodbye World! … Today, I'm announcing my plans to close BricaBox, LLC. — This decision, which has taken place over the last few weeks, was as complicated as are my feelings about it. Nonetheless, I can tell you most of this decision revolved around issues of money, traction …
Jesse Stay / Stay N\' Alive:
Developers Bailing on Twitter … I've been following various development mailing lists lately, and I'm seeing a trend of developers starting to bail on Twitter. This is a scary thought, because when the developers bail, so will the users. It all started with a conversation …
Joe Wilcox / Microsoft Watch:
DOJ Has Windows 7, Why Not You? — Windows 7 already is being reviewed by U.S. government technical appointees, something many Microsoft executives probably couldn't have much imagined happening a year ago. — Under terms of Microsoft's November 2001 Justice Department settlement …
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