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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
More on Yahoo's Reorg: Dietzen Is Garlinghouse Replacement — As BoomTown reported last night, the Yahoo 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. — Sources said a more substantial …
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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 …
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:Could Microsoft Get Control of Yahoo Without Buying It Whole?
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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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InfoWorld:
ICANN opens way for new top-level domains — ICANN will press ahead with plans to introduce new top-level domains, including some so-called Internationalized Domain Names written in Chinese and Arabic scripts, its board decided unanimously Thursday. — The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names …
Anick Jesdanun / Associated Press:Internet group paves way for hundreds of new domains
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The Tech Report
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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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, Inquirer, All Facebook, BoomTown, CrunchGear, AppScout, broadstuff, WebProNews, VentureBeat, Valleywag and Inside Facebook
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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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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:Sony's PS3 movie download service rolling out Stateside this summer
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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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Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
Microsoft tries to go where VMware isn'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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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 …
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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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 …
Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Microsoft Report:
Intel stays behind the curve ... again — The Inquirer is making a big fuss over Intel's decision to continue using Windows XP instead of migrating to Windows Vista. A stunning rebuke, obviously, leading to a rousing chorus of “I told you so.” — Except that there's nothing new here.
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 …
