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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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The Inquisitr, L.A. Times Tech Blog, ReadWriteWeb, Search Engine Journal, The Guidewire, paidContent.org, mathewingram.com/work, Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life, UMBC ebiquity, Valleywag, ContentBlogger, BroadDev, Silicon Alley Insider, Furrier.org, WebProNews, Alt Search Engines, Beyond Binary and Mashable!
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Microsoft To Buy Powerset? Not Just Yet. — VentureBeat is reporting that Microsoft has agreed to buy semantic search engine Powerset for somewhere around $100 million, which is the price we previously reported was being offered to the company. — Our sources have been saying this deal …
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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Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Mark Evans, Techdirt, CircleID, DSLreports, VentureBeat, Lockergnome, Mashable!, Changing Way, ReadWriteWeb, broadstuff and Digital Daily
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Jason Keenan / ICANN:
Biggest Expansion to Internet in Forty Years Approved for Implementation — Paris, France: The Board of ICANN today approved a recommendation that could see a whole range of new names introduced to the Internet's addressing system. — “The Board today accepted a recommendation …
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 …
WindowsServer / Windows Server Division WebLog:
MICROSOFT.COM POWERED BY HYPER-V — Hi—I am Rob Emanuel, a Technology Architect on the Microsoft.com Operations team focusing on virtualization. I wanted to share the great progress we have made rolling out Hyper-V since my first blog a month ago. In that blog I discussed our success …
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Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Tests the New iGoogle — Announced in April, the new version of iGoogle that brings social applications is tested in a small number of randomly selected Google accounts. — The new iGoogle places the tabs on the left-hand side of the page and you can expand the tabs to see the list …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The First Test App For MySpace Data Availability — The CrunchBase guys (thanks Henry and Mark) have been hacking away at the newly launched MySpace Data Availability APIs to create a test application that is now working, at techcrunch.com/myspace/app.php. You can sign into the account using …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:MySpace Opens Up The Data Pipe With Full Launch Of Data Availability
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The Social Web, Ars Technica, The Social, Marc's Voice, VentureBeat, The Real McCrea and Mashable!
Anil Dash:
Bill Gates and the Greatest Tech Hack Ever — Bill Gates has pulled off one of the greatest hacks in technology and business history, by turning Microsoft's success into a force for social responsibility. Imagine imposing a tax on every corporation in the developed world …
Joseph Weisenthal / paidContent.org:
Napster Activists: Company Worth At Least As Much As Last.Fm — Back in May we mentioned that three subscribers/shareholders of Napster had launched an improbable proxy fight hoping to get themselves representation on the company's board. That still looks like a pretty tall order for the trio …
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Russ Mitchell / Portfolio.com:
Yahoo's Loser Board — Russ Mitchell is not surprised. One way to compare the quality of Yahoo's board of directors to Microsoft's: look at the outside directors and the other public boards they sit on and see how they've performed. Take each company and compare its stock charts …
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Valleywag
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Palm Stinks Up Q4; No Big Deal (PALM) — Palm's Q4 was even worse than analysts' low expectations, and shares will probably drop Friday morning. (They're down 7.8% after hours, to $6.03, after losing another 4.4% during Thursday trading.) — But it doesn't really matter! Why not?
Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Atom Films relaunched as Comedy Central sister site — NEW YORK—Two years after acquiring it, MTV Networks has shaped Atom Films into Atom.com, a sister site to its Comedy Central network dedicated to short-form, Web-based comedy. — Executives from the Viacom-owned MTV Networks held …
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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:
Icahn battles for Yahoo's gold — Proxy fights often leave shareholders feeling black and blue, but when it comes to the battle of Carl Icahn and Jerry Yang, it's a case of gold vs. white. — Icahn on Thursday filed his preliminary proxy statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission …
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Joseph Weisenthal / paidContent.org:Icahn: Still Waging Proxy Fight; Still Wants Microsoft Deal …
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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 …
