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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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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Yahoo's Dangerous Stock Dip (Hey, Microsoft, Don't Blow It!) — Right now, Yahoo shares are flirting with a dangerous threshold of below $20 a share-at this moment, shares are at $20.88. — Of course, the last time Yahoo (YHOO) went under the $20 level is when Microsoft (MSFT) …
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Microsoft and Yahoo In Talks: Two Sources Say “Search Only, Not Buyout” — Yahoo (YHOO) and Microsoft (MSFT) are talking again, say TechCrunch, CNET, and an SAI source. — TechCrunch's sources say the two are talking about a full buyout. One of our sources was highly skeptical of this.
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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Emel Mutlu / Inside AdWords:
Introducing Google Ad Planner — If you're a media planner at an ad agency, you know that planning an online display buy can be challenging, particularly in scaling your campaign's reach while keeping it relevant for your target audience. Plus, how do you keep track of the millions of sites …
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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 …
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Nokia:Mobile leaders to unify the Symbian software platform and set …
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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.
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Paul McDougall / InformationWeek:
Microsoft Pledges Windows XP Support Through 2014 — Microsoft may have little choice but to support XP for an extended period since most of its business customers have not upgraded to Windows Vista. — In an unprecedented move, Microsoft has committed to providing support services …
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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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David Kaplan / paidContent.org:
Visa Flashes Its Credit Card On Facebook: $2M Ad Spend, Plus Promotional App — Forecasters like eMarketer may be predicting that social nets might not rake in as many ad dollars as previously thought, but Facebook is betting that deals like the one that kicked off today with Visa will help make it more attractive to advertisers.
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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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Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
The Ad J.C. Penney Doesn't Want You to See — An award-winning ad made for J.C. Penney that the retailer is trying to distance itself from can still be readily found online. The witty but racy ad, apparently made by Epoch Films for ad agency Saatchi & Saatchi in the vein …
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Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Recording Industry Calls Radio ‘A Kind Of Piracy’ — It would appear that the recording industry now likes to call any sort of business model it doesn't like “piracy.” At least that's the only explanation I can come up with in its latest battle, where it has referred to traditional radio as “a form of piracy.”
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Tim Mallalieu / Tim Mallalieu's Blog.:
Vote of No Confidence — It's been a long, long time since I have posted anything on my blog. Reality is I tried to maintain a blog where I thought I could come up with wonderfully profound things to share with the world but clearly that was not the case.
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:Testers give Microsoft's Entity Framework a no-confidence vote
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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.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Does Your Gmail Suck Too? — A few months ago, at the insistence of some of my team members, we switched from Zimbra to Google Apps for our own domain offering. The argument was that Google's quality of service, thanks to its great infrastructure, would be great and that we could also use Google Docs for easy sharing of information.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
After Steve Jobs: Handicapping Apple's back bench — “You know, I think it wouldn't be a party,” Steve Jobs told Fortune in February, describing the future of his company if, as he put it, Jobs got hit by a bus. “But there are really capable people at Apple. ...
Ray Pellecchia / NYSE:
New York Stock Exchange Today Launches NYSE Realtime Stock Prices — The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), a subsidiary of NYSE Euronext (NYX), today will introduce NYSE Realtime Stock Prices, a new data product that enables Internet and media organizations to buy real-time …
Gerry / Canonical Blog:
Ubuntu MID Edition 8.04 achieves its first public release — We are delighted to be able to welcome Ubuntu Mobile Internet Device (MID) Edition 8.04 to the world as a full developers' release. It is based on the Ubuntu Desktop Edition, and it is now available for download.
