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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 …
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, VentureBeat, Valleywag and Business Technology
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:.confusion: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs
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Paul Thomasch / Reuters:Get ready for .smith, .sports or .love on the Web
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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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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Microsoft to buy semantic search engine Powerset for $100M plus — Microsoft, the software giant flush with billions of dollars in its warchest, has agreed to buy Silicon Valley semantic search engine Powerset, we've learned. — The purchase price is rumored to be slightly more than $100 million.
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Silicon Alley Insider, TechCrunch, Mashable!, CNET News.com, Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life and HipMojo.com
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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Joseph Weisenthal / paidContent.org:
Icahn: Still Waging Proxy Fight; Still Wants Microsoft Deal And Severance Plan Revoked — The real news here may be that Carl Icahn hasn't given up yet on his uphill battle to install a slate of candidates on Yahoo's (NSDQ: YHOO) board. In the midst of all this Yahoo drama …
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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 …
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
Grammy Winner: Piracy Is Brilliant; I Love It — Slowly, but surely, we're seeing more and more musicians understand that “piracy” isn't a threat but an opportunity. Take the latest example, as Grammy-award winner Joss Stone apparently stunned a television reporter by telling him that piracy was “brilliant.”
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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 …
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 …
Bruce Schneier / Wired News:
I've Seen the Future, and It Has a Kill Switch — It used to be that just the entertainment industries wanted to control your computers — and televisions and iPods and everything else — to ensure that you didn't violate any copyright rules. But now everyone else wants to get their hooks into your gear.
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.
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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Silicon Alley Insider, Rolling Stone, Inquirer, All Facebook, AppScout, CrunchGear, BoomTown, WebProNews, broadstuff and VentureBeat
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 …
