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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, 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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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 …
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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.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yang Steps Down As Yahoo CEO, Search For Successor Begins — Expect Yahoo's share price to jump tomorrow - Jerry Yang will be stepping down as CEO of the company, a job that he took on an interim basis in June 2007. — Yang will return to his former role as Chief Yahoo, and will remain on the board of directors.
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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 …
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Dave Burke / Google Mobile Blog:
Google Mobile App for iPhone now with Voice Search and My Location — The new Google Mobile App for iPhone makes it possible for you to do a Google web search using only your voice. Just hold the phone to your ear, wait for the beep, and say what you're looking for. That's it. Just talk.
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MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
Let there be voice! Google Voice Search for iPhone launches — Better late than never right? Despite still not being listed on Google's App Store page, the update to Google Search app, the one containing voice search, is there. Simply click the “Get App” button on this page (within iTunes) …
Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
Adobe bringing full-fledged Flash to phones — Adobe Systems CTO Kevin Lynch touts Flash for mobile phones at the Adobe Max conference. — (Credit: Stephen Shankland/CNET Networks) — SAN FRANCISCO—Inspired by a new generation of smartphones, Adobe Systems has begun a new …
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Will Park / IntoMobile:Adobe brings Flash to T-Mobile G1 - Android and Adobe Flash, together at last
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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” …
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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Gavin Clarke / The Register:
Microsoft crashes Adobe RIA party — Adobe throws sand in Microsoft's face — Adobe MAX Microsoft has tried to cast a shadow over RIA and cloud news at Adobe Systems' annual MAX conference by talking up Silverlight's roadmap. — Barely a month after shipping Silverlight 2 Microsoft has offered a …
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
What does ‘SharePoint in the cloud’ really mean? — Microsoft began shipping, starting November 17, the final version of its Exchange Online and SharePoint Online Microsoft-hosted services. Are these products full versions of Microsoft's enterprise software running in “in the cloud”?
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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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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
SGN's iFun Turns iPhone Into PC Game Controller — We've had a blast playing SGN's suite of Wii-like games over the last few months - iGolf, iBowl and iBaseball (basketball, tennis and boxing are coming soon). The apps are being downloaded like crazy on the App store, and no wonder …
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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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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 …
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 …
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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Dan Farber / Webware.com:
OpenSocial, Facebook, Microsoft vie for developers — OpenSocial is growing up fast. What started out as Google's effort to create a common application programming interface for developing small applications that can tap into multiple social-networking services is becoming a full-fledged development platform.
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Transmetsa Selling To Novafora for $255.6 Mln — Transmeta (TMTA) this afternoon announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to sell the company to privately held Novafora, a fabless chip company based in San Jose, for $255.6 million in cash. Transfora develops digital video processors.
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 …
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John Cook / TechFlash:
Comcast to introduce 50 Mbps Internet connections in Washington — Is your Internet connection at home or work feeling a little clunky? Comcast today announced that it will roll out a new Internet service package next month called Extreme 50 with download speeds of as much as 50 Megabits per second.
