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2:00 AM ET, June 25, 2008

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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Sources: Microsoft And Yahoo Talks Back On  —  We've got multiple sources at both Yahoo and Microsoft telling us that official talks are back on between the two companies.  But we're hearing something different than CNET - the talks are about a full buyout again, not a sweetened search-only deal.
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Microsoft and Yahoo In Talks: Two Sources Say “Search Only, Not Buyout”
CNBC:
Yahoo Shares Leap, but Source Denies Buyout Talks
Discussion: The Inquisitr
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Yahoo's Dangerous Stock Dip (Hey, Microsoft, Don't Blow It!)
BIZ / Twitter Blog:
Welcoming Bijan and Jeff  —  We're happy to announce two new members of our investment team: Bijan Sabet with Spark Capital in Boston and Jeff Bezos of Bezos Expeditions in Seattle.  Bijan has also accepted a seat on our board of directors.  We're looking forward to the guidance and advice both will bring to Twitter.
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Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / HipMojo.com:
Amazon.com's Call Option on Twitter  —  Twitter accepted some money from Spark Capital and Jeff Bezos.  The latter is interested because long ago I wrote that Twitter was far more of an e-commerce play than an ad play... but given the $150B US / $500B global advertising market …
Discussion: Voices and broadstuff
Dave Winer / Scripting News:   Can Twitter become ubiquitous?
Todd Bishop / Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog:
Full text: An epic Bill Gates e-mail rant  —  Sometimes, software isn't so magical.  Even for Bill Gates.  —  For the opening piece in our series on Gates leaving daily life at Microsoft, one goal was to give a clear picture of the Microsoft co-founder's role inside the company, as a gauge of the impact his departure will have.
Josh / Redeye VC:
The Death of Stealth Mode  —  D Seeing how attacking startup lawyers seems to be en vogue this month, let's put this post in the category of “Things I wish lawyers told their startup clients.”  —  Here's a situation I see all the time:  —  A pre-launch, stealth-mode company just closes a seed round of funding.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Is Google Ad Planner Getting Its Data From The Google Toolbar?  —  The recent launch of Google Trends for Websites was just a dress rehearsal.  The real product that it is based on is Google Ad Planner, which the company announced today.  Google Ad Planner is built for ad buyers who want to decide where to place their ads.
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Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:
Microsoft expanding Mac team ahead of new products  —  Microsoft's Mac Business last week kicked off the largest hiring spree in its history as the group prepares to accelerate development of a new wave of software products for Apple users.  —  “The Mac BU at Microsoft is growing …
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John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Android Expectations … More about Google's (and their Android team's) motivation and goals than about specific details of the platform, but interesting.  —  One thing I should make clear, given some of the email I've gotten this week, is that I'm rooting for Android, big-time.
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider
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Stephen Wildstrom / Tech Beat:
Can Android Vanquish the iPhone (and Walk on Water)?
Daniel Roth / Wired News:
Google's Open Source Android Phone Will Free the Wireless Web
Discussion: PhoneDog.com and MobHappy
Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
Evri Beta Launches: Search Less - Understand More  —  Evri, a Paul Allen backed semantic search engine, is launching into a limited beta tonight.  Evri was first shown publicly at the D6 conference.  Evri's CEO Neil Roseman likes to talk about Evri in terms of organizing content instead of calling it a search engine.
Discussion: VentureBeat and CenterNetworks
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:   Evri Launches Semantic Content Discovery Engine In Private Beta
Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Digital politics: The future is broadband, not Facebook  —  NEW YORK—It's time to stop waxing philosophical about how this thing called “new media” is shaping American elections and time to focus on the real tech issues, like broadband policy.  —  We talked about bloggers in 2004 …
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Shel / Global Neighbourhoods:
About Loren Feldman & Michael Arrington  —  More than once a day, nearly every day, for the last three months I have been asked how I feel about Loren Feldman's sock puppet and seemingly unending shots at me from his Twitter pulpit.  —  My answer is pretty consistent.  I do not like it.
Discussion: TomsTechBlog.com
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Symbian, iPhone & the New Mobile Reality  —  Nokia, already a stakeholder in mobile OS maker Symbian, has announced that it will buy the remainder of the company and throw all the assets into a new platform called the Symbian Foundation, which will unite all the flavors of Symbian into a single …
Jonathan D. Glater / New York Times:
Hidden Sex Scenes Draw Ho-Hum, Except From Lawyers  —  Lawyers who sued the makers of the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas profess to be shocked, simply shocked, that few people who bought the game were offended by sex scenes buried in its software.  —  Any buyer upset about hidden sex …
Discussion: Kotaku and CrunchGear
Ian Dumych / Download Squad:
Tiny XP Rev 09: Windows XP with cuise control  —  Installing or reinstalling Windows can be a real hassle.  Although Windows XP comes with a basic set of drivers, there's a good chance you'll have to dig out the driver disc for some of your hardware, or scour the Internet for the appropriate files.
Discussion: InfoWorld
Tnkgrl / tnkgrl Mobile:
MacBook Air SuperDrive for all  —  So like me, you have a MacBook Air SuperDrive... It's affordable, it's functional, it's sexy.  If only it was usable with other Macs and PCs!  —  Well rejoice :) I have successfully hacked my MBA SuperDrive to work with other Macs and PCs.
communities.hp.com:
Finding SQL Injection with Scrawlr  —  You have likely been tracking the mass SQL Injections that are currently sweeping through the net.  Just last night I was shopping on www.ihomeaudio.com when I noticed they had been injected (they have since fixed their site).  HP started to observe these attacks in January.
Adam Ostrow / Mashable!:
Twellow: The People Search That Twitter Should've Built  —  Twellow is a great new search tool and directory for discovering Twitter users that could fundamentally change the way people use the microblogging service.  —  Launched by the same people behind the tech news site WebProNews …
Discussion: David Risley
 
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Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Google's Vint Cerf, ‘Father of the Internet’: “Online Video …
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Aidan Malley / AppleInsider:
Apple following iPod, PS2 model to sell 23m iPhones in one year
Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
T-Mobile's home phone service goes nationwide
Discussion: L.A. Times Tech Blog and Crave
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
I Talk, Vlingo Listens
Discussion: Mashable!
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Amie Street Lands Big Content Deal With The Orchard
Peter Whoriskey / Washington Post:
Internet Provider Halts Plan to Track, Sell Users' Surfing Data
Duncan Riley / The Inquisitr:
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Time Warner Cable Testing Powerboost Technology …
Discussion: Geek News Central
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Could iPhone smoke the Kindle?
Michael Learmonth / Silicon Alley Insider:
New York: More Geeks Here Than Silicon Valley
Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Suit accuses Google of trade secret theft
Discussion: Epicenter and TechSpot
Ryan Naraine / Zero Day:
How does Apple get away with this badware behavior?
Gerry / Canonical Blog:
Ubuntu MID Edition 8.04 achieves its first public release
Sarah Lacy:
What LinkedIn Doubters Need to Know
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
After Steve Jobs: Handicapping Apple's back bench