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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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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
iTunes store: 5 billion songs; 50,000 movies per day — Apple issued two nice round numbers on Thursday. — First, it announced that the number of songs purchased and downloaded from the iTunes store since it opened on April 28, 2003 has passed the 5 billion mark.
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Don Reisinger / The Digital Home:The music industry abuses us and we're to blame
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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Leave — It's only been a few hours since we posted the ex-Yahoo Exec tracking spreadsheet, but it's already seriously outdated.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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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:Tracking Former Yahoo Execs - Where Are They Now?
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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, 31, who is currently Facebook's VP of Product Management …
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Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Facebook's Matt Cohler leaves for Benchmark Capital — Matt Cohler, Facebook's vice president of product management, is leaving the social networking company to become a general partner at Silicon Valley venture firm Benchmark Capital. — This announcement follows the departure …
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Jessica Guynn / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Senior executive Matt Cohler leaves Facebook — Matt Cohler, a senior Facebook executive and one of the early employees of the social networking phenom, is leaving to become a general partner with Benchmark Capital. — Cohler has distinguished himself in recent years as consigliere …
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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Michael Liedtke / Associated Press:
Yahoo addresses e-mail concerns with new domains — SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo Inc. is offering free e-mail accounts under two new designations in an effort to attract Web surfers unhappy with their current addresses. — It will be the first time that Yahoo has offered e-mail accounts under umbrellas …
Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:Yahoo Mail hopes to lure users with ‘ymail.com’
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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.
Vasanth Sridharan / Silicon Alley Insider:
Bebo: Facebook Redesign's Could Screw Us (TWX) — How do you get the army of developers who've made apps for Facebook to go to work for you? Emulate Facebook. That's what Bebo, AOL's $850 million baby, did last year when it unveiled a clone of Facebook's own platform.
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Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Friendster's growth in Asia could make it the top social network in the world, once again — In the current international land-grab among leading social networks, Facebook is overtaking MySpace as the largest social network in the world. But there's a big caveat — Asia …
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Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
Citi: YouTube Can Generate $500M In 2009 (GOOG) — Either Google (GOOG) is figuring out how turn YouTube from money pit into a real business, or it's figured out how to convince everyone else that it's doing so: Estimates for the channel's revenue potential continue to climb.
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 …
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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 …
Christina Holsberry / Facebook Blog:
Welcome to Facebook, homeschoolers — Back in September 2006, we decided to open up Facebook to everyone. Well, almost everyone. — We realized Facebook would be most useful if more people were allowed to join, but we also weren't willing to compromise the security of the site by removing …
