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Markcuban / blog maverick:
The SEC — I wish I could say more, but I will have to leave it to this, and let the judicial process do its job. — November 17, 2008 — RE: SEC Civil Action in the United States District — for the Northern District of Texas, Dallas Division — Mark Cuban today responded …
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U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission:
SEC Files Insider Trading Charges Against Mark Cuban — FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — 2008-273 — Washington, D.C., Nov. 17, 2008 — The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Dallas entrepreneur Mark Cuban with insider trading for selling 600,000 shares of the stock …
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Yahoo's Jerry Yang to Step Down, As a Search for New CEO Commences — Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang will step down from his job as CEO, said sources close to the company, as soon as the board finds a replacement for him, in what sources close to the situation call a joint decision by him and the company's directors.
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CNET News, Between the Lines, Alley Insider, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Tech Trader Daily, TechCrunch and Valleywag
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Jerry Yang's Entire Memo to His Employees on Stepping Down as CEO — BoomTown has obtained the entire memo Jerry Yang to employees at Yahoo about his plans to step down as Yahoo CEO. — Yang, a truly nice man-which has been a plus and a minus for him-and an Internet visionary for sure …
Yahoo!:
Yahoo! Conducting Search for New CEO — Co-Founder Jerry Yang to Step Down Following Appointment of New CEO — and Return to Former Role as Chief Yahoo! and Board Member — Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO) today announced that its Board of Directors has initiated a search for a new Chief Executive Officer.
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The Microsoft Blog
Nick Mihailovski / Google Analytics Blog:
Want to track Adobe Flash? Now you can! — Image of Analytics Flash Visual Component in Flash CS3 — Today, at the Adobe MAX Conference in San Francisco, in a joint collaboration with our friends at Adobe and a few ace third party developers, we announced a simplified solution …
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PC World, Beet.TV, Furrier.org, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, webmonkey, WebProNews and John Battelle's Searchblog
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Facebook Rolls Out Verified App Program, Plus One Hell Of A Revenue Model For Themselves — Facebook is launching its “Verified Apps” program today. The program was first announced over the summer at their F8 Developer Conference - Third party applications will be segmented into “Great Apps” …
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Will Park / IntoMobile:
Adobe brings Flash to T-Mobile G1 - Android and Adobe Flash, together at last — While Steve Jobs continues to block Adobe's efforts to bring Flash capability to the iPhone OS, Google's Andy Rubin took to the stage at the Adobe MAX developer's conference to show the world what Flash looks like on the T-Mobile G1.
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AndroidGuys
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Erick Schonfeld / MobileCrunch:Adobe To Demo Flash On Mobile (But Only Windows). Still “Working” On The iPhone.
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Gadget Lab, Adobe, Infinite Loop, 9 to 5 Mac, Download Squad, Alley Insider, TechCrunch, AppScout, Gizmodo, VentureBeat and Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim
Jack Neff / AdAge:
P&G Digital Guru Not Sure Marketers Belong on Facebook — Advertisers Shouldn't ‘Hijack’ Conversations, but Applications Hold Promise — CINCINNATI (AdAge.com) — Social networks may never find the ad dollars they're hunting for because they don't really have a right to them, said Ted McConnell …
Financial Times:
Rival forecast to catch YouTube — By Tim Bradshaw in London and Matthew Garrahan in Los Angeles — YouTube is in danger of being upstaged commercially by a smaller upstart backed by News Corporation and NBC Universal as the video-sharing site struggles to make its massive global audience appeal to advertisers.
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paidContent.org, Alley Insider, ReadWriteWeb, MarketingVOX, CrunchGear, Webomatica, Epicenter, Coolfer, VentureBeat and NewTeeVee
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Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Breaking: Major League Baseball Signs Adobe for Streaming, Microsoft's Silverlight has Setback — Adobe has landed a two-year agreement with MLB.com to stream its 2,500-plus spring training, regular season and post-season games live to MLB.com's 1.5 million subscribers.
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paidContent.org, CNET News, NewTeeVee, Alley Insider, Between the Lines, VentureBeat and Macsimum News
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Microsoft:
Exchange Online and SharePoint Online Out of Beta and Ready for Purchase — Microsoft announces new customers, partners and online services. — Today, at a launch event in San Francisco, Stephen Elop, president of the Microsoft Business Division at Microsoft Corp., was joined by customers …
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Guardian, Microsoft Watch, eWeek, Microsoft Pri0, InformationWeek and Microsoft News Tracker
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:What does ‘SharePoint in the cloud’ really mean?
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Broadband Developments
Don Reisinger / Webware.com:
Google SketchUp 7 wants to shape you into a 3D artist — Google has released SketchUp 7, the latest free version of its 3D modeling software, along with its premium counterpart, SketchUp 7 Pro. — Like previous iterations of the software, SketchUp 7 will enable you to model just about anything …
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Ars Technica
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Aidan Chopra / The Official Google Blog:Introducing SketchUp 7 — We're very excited to announce …
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PC World, Google LatLong, Digital Inspiration, Lifehacker, MAKE Magazine and Boing Boing
Jacqui Cheng / Infinite Loop:
OpenTable's iPhone app makes reservations a breeze — If you live in an urban environment, reservations are key if you want to eat on a weekend night without a huge wait. (Hole-in-the wall restaurants and fast food aside, of course, although even hole-in-the-wall places tend to be packed to the gills in my neighborhood.)
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Kevin J. O'Brien / International Herald Tribune:
Once greeted warmly, Google wears out welcome — BERLIN: When Google began hiring in Zurich for its new engineering center in 2004, local officials welcomed the U.S. company with open arms. Google's arrival is still bearing fruit for Zurich: 450 employees, about 300 of them engineers …
AppleInsider:
Apple releases fix for quirky MacBook glass trackpads — Apple has released a software update to address an issue where trackpad clicks would randomly go unrecognized on its latest notebook offerings: the MacBook (Late 2008) and MacBook Pro (Late 2008). — “This firmware update addresses …
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CNET News, Infinite Loop, MacRumors, Macsimum News, TUAW, Boy Genius Report, MacBlogz and Gizmodo
Scott Gu / ScottGu's Blog:
Update on Silverlight 2 - and a glimpse of Silverlight 3 — We shipped Silverlight 2 last month. Over the last 4 weeks, the final release of Silverlight 2 has been downloaded and installed on more than 100 million consumer machines. It has also recently been published to corporate administrators via …
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The Business Of Online Video, The Register, Online Video Watch, SitePoint, One Microsoft Way and NewTeeVee
The Official Google Blog:
Ads in new places — At Google we're great supporters of experimentation because it's only by trying new things (even if some of them don't work out) that you discover better, more creative ways to operate. We've been testing different advertising formats for years (some have been more successful …
David Chartier / Infinite Loop:
Apple brings HDCP to a new aluminum MacBook near you — High Definition Content Protection (HDCP)—you can't live with it, but you practically can't buy an HD-capable device anymore without it. While HDCP is typically used in devices like Blu-ray players, HDTVs, HDMI-enabled notebooks …
Slash Lane / AppleInsider:
Apple flirting with another record quarter for Mac sales — After spending 25 hours counting sales of iPhones and Macs at Apple's US-based retail chain, investment bank Piper Jaffray said it believes the company this quarter could meet or beat last quarter's record 2.6 million Mac sales total …
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Tech Check with Jim Goldman, VentureBeat, Digital Daily, Tech Trader Daily, Byte of the Apple and Macsimum News
Ina Fried / Beyond Binary:
StarOffice gains native Mac support — StarOffice 9 is the first version with native Mac support, but just one of many products that aims to be a low-cost alternative to Microsoft Office. — (Credit: Sun Microsystems) — Home - News - Beyond Binary — Beyond Binary — November 17, 2008 7:01 AM PST
InfoWorld:
Microsoft files suit to defend Visual Studio users — In a new lawsuit, Microsoft asks a San Francisco court to declare invalid several patents assigned to an online transactions company in hopes of defending customers who have been sued by the patent holder, WebXchange.
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CNET News
Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
Facebook Steps Up SEO for Brand Pages with Millions of New Indexable Links — In a move that will increase the amount of Page Rank and traffic Google gives to Facebook Pages, Facebook launched a new feature over the weekend that essentially added hundreds of millions of new internal links …
