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Microsoft Statement Regarding Carl Icahn Letter — REDMOND, Wash., July 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Microsoft Corp. today issued the following statement: — In the past week we have had the opportunity to discuss with Carl Icahn the prospects for a possible agreement between Microsoft and Yahoo!.
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Icahn Issues Open Letter to Shareholders of Yahoo! — SECURITY HOLDERS ARE ADVISED TO READ THE PROXY STATEMENT AND OTHER DOCUMENTS RELATED TO THE SOLICITATION OF PROXIES BY CARL C. ICAHN AND HIS AFFILIATES FROM THE STOCKHOLDERS OF YAHOO! INC. FOR USE AT ITS ANNUAL MEETING, WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE …
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Major Yahoo Investor Leans Toward Backing Carl Icahn Too — Microsoft's not the only one possibly backing billionaire investor Carl Icahn in his quest to unseat Yahoo's leadership and board-major Yahoo investor Gordon Crawford told Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang in a face-to-face meeting last week …
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:Sorry, Carl and Steve: If You Want Our Yahoo Vote, You Need To Give Us More Details
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Anupreeta Das / Reuters:Yahoo-AOL deal unlikely before Aug 1: source
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Robby Stein / Gmail Blog:
Remote sign out and info to help you protect your Gmail account — Your email account can contain a lot of personal information, from bank alerts to love letters. Email that, I'm sure, you don't always want other people to see. We understand how important your Gmail accounts are to you …
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Google Lets You Monitor Access To Your Gmail Account — Gmail has introduced a new privacy feature that will let users see how many computers their account is open on, and also allows them to sign-out remotely. Basic information is displayed as part of the page's standard footer …
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Find Who Has Access to Your Gmail Account — After years of testing, Gmail has finally added a very useful security feature: tracking open sessions. If you log in to Gmail from more than one computer and you forget to sign out, you'll be able to see the list of locations where your account can still be accessed.
Josh Chandler / Josh Chandler's Blog:
Twitter to buy Summize.com! — So one of my sources close to the deal has informed me that Twitter will be buying Summize.com the Twitter conversation search engine. Summize is one of my favourite search engines for Twitter, I even used it for recent tweets like this one
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Twitter May Buy Summize — Twitter may buy Virginia-based Summize, a Twitter search engine, says Jason Calacanis. A source close to Twitter says that the two companies have been in discussions around a merger over the last couple of weeks, but won't comment on whether an actual sale has occurred, or the terms.
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:Twitter Buys Twitter Search Engine Summize — Or Not?
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Arn / MacRumors:
iPhone 3G Store Displays, Demo Units, Apple Retail Launch [Update] — Preparations are underway for the iPhone 3G launch this Friday at AT&T and Apple stores nationwide. Gizmodo posts photos of oversized iPhone 3G store displays (pictured above) that demonstrate the functionality of the iPhone.
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Mark Wilson / Gizmodo:Behold, the iPhone 3G Display
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BlackBerry Sync:
BlackBerry Thunder Exclusive Shots (Meet the media player...) — That's right folks an anonymous tipster has sent us shots of the highly anticipated BlackBerry Thunder. The Thunder also known as BlackBerry 9500 will feature a huge 360x480 touch display and will apparently run on OS 4.7.
Betsy Schiffman / Epicenter:
It's the Beginning of the End for the TV Biz, Says Analyst — The TV and video business is about to face a nasty downturn, and it could happen faster than most people expect — like, over the next two years. So says Lehman Brothers analyst Anthony DiClemente, who published an alarmingly bearish report …
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Joseph Weisenthal / paidContent.org:Analyst Whacks Entertainment Industry: Major Cannibalization Set To Begin... Now
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Microsoft:
Microsoft Security Advisory (955179) — Vulnerability in the ActiveX Control for the Snapshot Viewer for Microsoft Access Could Allow Remote Code Execution — Microsoft is investigating active, targeted attacks leveraging a potential vulnerability in the ActiveX control for the Snapshot Viewer for Microsoft Access.
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Dan Moren / MacUser:
The tyranny of “free” — When it comes to software, we seem to have become increasingly spoiled. On TIME Magazine's site, Anita Hamilton discusses the impending influx of iPhone applications and poses the question “why can't all iPhone apps be free?” — Pointing to the plethora …
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
MyYahoo 2.0 Goes Live for All; Developer Platform Coming Soon — After more than a year in private beta, the new Web 2.0 style MyYahoo is being rolled out today to all MyYahoo users, the company says. MyYahoo is the biggest player of all web start pages and any changes made there will effect millions of mainstream users.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Behind the scenes: Steve Jobs meets the Segway — The news that Doug Field, Segway's chief technology officer, has left the company for Apple, is one of those high-level personnel changes one feels obliged to comment on. — “So that's what MobileMe is all about,” wrote one wag on The Mac Observers' Apple Finance Board.
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Muhammad Saleem / ReadWriteWeb:
How Reddit is Flirting With The Future of Social News — In the competitive social news market, Digg has gotten a lot of attention for its recommendation engine and Mixx continues to release new features (it has launched communities and an API recently). However it seems like Reddit is not getting the attention it deserves.
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Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
‘Scrabble’ on Facebook: Too little, too late — Electronic Arts, the video game giant that owns the rights to digital versions of the board game Scrabble, has announced that later this month, it will launch a Facebook application version of the game in conjunction with Hasbro.
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