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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
More on Yahoo's Reorg: Dietzen Is Garlinghouse Replacement — As BoomTown reported last night, the Yahoo (YHOO) reorg will be unveiled later this morning, with the slate of execs that this column outlined last week in its gory-oops, I mean, glorious-detail.
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Business Wire:
Yahoo! Announces Realignment to Support Core Strategies — Centralizes Audience Product Development; Forms New U.S. Region; — Realigns Technology Organization — SUNNYVALE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - News), a leading global Internet company …
Clint Boulton / eWeek:
Yahoo Regroups With SAAS, Cloud Computing Focus — Yahoo reshuffles its executives and employees into three groups to help the company better target advertisers while supporting search and cloud computing. — In the wake of somewhat successfully fending off Microsoft's and Carl Icahn's hungry hearts …
BBC:
Internet overhaul wins approval — A complete overhaul of the way in which people navigate the internet has been given the go-ahead in Paris. — The net's regulator, Icann, voted unanimously to relax the strict rules on so-called “top-level” domain names, such as .com or .uk.
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Ben Worthen / Wall Street Journal:
Web Domains Could Expand Broadly Under New Plan — The organization that oversees Internet addresses is expected Thursday to approve a proposal to create an unlimited number of so-called top-level domains — the familiar suffixes like “.com” at the end of Web addresses.
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Cartoon Barry Blog, ReadWriteWeb, TidBITS, Valleywag, VentureBeat, Business Technology and ZDNet Government
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:.confusion: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs
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Jack Davis / Docu-Drama:
Google's multi-million dollar welcome to new CFO — Google finally named a replacement for its outgoing chief financial officer, George Reyes. He is Patrick Pichette who comes to the search juggernaut after seven years at Bell Canada. — So how do you make a new top executive feel at home …
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Wilson Rothman / Gizmodo:
Dell Dock Puts a Little Mac OS X Into Vista Studio Laptops — Dell's Studio Laptops will be getting a little touch of the Mac OS when they ship, thanks to the Dell Dock, a launcher that cleans up the Vista desktop in the most charming, albeit derivative, way. Below you can see “Before” and “After” images of the cleanup:
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Matt Hamblen / Computerworld:
Add Wi-Fi to the list of options on Chrysler vehicles — To be offered on new cars in September, it relies on 3G — Computerworld) With Wi-Fi already available in many coffee shops and coming soon to some airplanes, it was only a matter of time before a U.S. carmaker started offering Wi-Fi access for automobiles.
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Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Microsoft tries to hit VMware where they ain't — In Field of Dreams, Kevin Costner is wary of building a baseball diamond on his farm, which is already near foreclosure. But a voice tells him, “If you build it, they will come.” — Microsoft has the same vision for its virtualization technology.
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Michael Learmonth / Silicon Alley Insider:
Viacom Relaunches Atom.com As (Yet) Another Comedy Site — Viacom is going to try to succeed where NBC's Dotcomedy, HBO's ThisJustIn and many others have failed. They're relaunching Atom Films, which was supposed to be an aggregator of short indie film clips, as Atom.com, an aggregator of short comedy clips.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Did Facebook Shut Down Slide's Top Friends? How Very MySpace Of Them — MySpace used to be notorious for simply banning third party widgets that didn't play nice ("not playing nice" generally meant any kind of advertisements in the widgets, but it was very arbitrary). Those days are long gone.
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Apple Orders Lots More iPhones; More iPods, Macs (AAPL) — Last time FBR Research analyst Craig Berger checked in with Apple's suppliers, he reported that Apple had slightly cut its iPhone build orders, and could cut them again. — Good news: Now he says Apple has revised those orders …
Brad Stone / Bits:
Judge Ends Facebook's Feud With ConnectU — Facebook has finally has closed the book on its long-running, multi-front legal battle with rival college social network ConnectU — but not before a new question was raised about Facebook's supposed $15 billion valuation.
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Rolling Stone, Silicon Alley Insider, All Facebook, Inquirer, BoomTown, CrunchGear, AppScout, WebProNews, broadstuff, VentureBeat and Valleywag
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
MySpace Opens Up The Data Pipe With Full Launch Of Data Availability — MySpace was the first of the Big Three to announce tools for third party sites to integrate MySpace user data into their services (called, collectively, Data Availability). A day later Facebook announced Facebook Connect …
Microsoft:
Microsoft Reaches for Clouds and Deepens Mobile Possibilities With Planned MobiComp Acquisition — Company's expertise in mobile personal data protection and management to come to Microsoft. — Microsoft Corp. today announced it intends to acquire MobiComp, a company that helped pioneer …
IDG News Service:
Sony Previews ‘Life With PlayStation’ — Sony is preparing a non-game service for its PlayStation 3 console that at first glance is similar to one available on Nintendo's Wii. — Called “Life with PlayStation,” the service will launch with news and weather information channels but is set …
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Gizmodo, Ars Technica, Opposable Thumbs, MarketingShift, Destructoid, Kotaku and I4U News
Business Wire:
Palm Reports Q4 and FY 2008 Results — SUNNYVALE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Palm, Inc. (Nasdaq:PALM - News) today reported that total revenue in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2008, ended May 30, was $296.2 million. Smartphone sell-through for the quarter reached a record high, totaling 968,000 units, up 29 percent year over year.
