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Carol Bartz Joins Yahoo! as Chief Executive Officer — Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO), a leading global brand and one of the world's most trafficked Internet destinations, announced today that Carol Bartz, a veteran technology executive who was most recently Executive Chairman of Autodesk (NASDAQ …
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Yahoo Confirms Bartz Pick as CEO; No. 2 Exec Decker Out — As reported by BoomTown and others, Yahoo has officially selected former Autodesk (ADSK) head Carol Bartz as its next CEO, effective immediately. — She will also join the Yahoo board. — In a press release this afternoon …
Charles Cooper / CNET News:
Carol Bartz is no Jerry Yang. Thankfully — Corporate fixes are notoriously hard. Parachuting into the equivalent of a war zone, with potential landmines at every turn, requires a special gene. And no small amount of brass. — So it is that after a year of corporate upheaval …
Arn / MacRumors:
Apple Allows 3rd Party Web Browsers into App Store — Over the past 24 hours, Apple has begun to approve 3rd party web browsing applications for the iPhone. A number of new web browsing apps have suddenly appeared with original submission dates ranging as far back as October.
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Cade Metz / The Register:
Brit porn filter censors 13 years of net history — Demon blacklist muzzles Wayback Machine — Four weeks after birthing a nationwide Wikipedia edit ban, Britain's child porn blacklist has led at least one ISP to muzzle the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine - an 85-billion-page web history dating back to 1996.
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Sell Google Apps through Google's reseller program — Ever wanted to be a salesperson for Google? Well, now you may get your chance through the Google Apps Reseller program, which allows companies to sell their own versions of Google Apps, the business offering that bundles products like Gmail, Google Docs, and more.
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Dion Hinchcliffe / Enterprise Web 2.0:
8 Predictions for Enterprise Web 2.0 in 2009 — We are starting 2009 off in a particularly inauspicious economic climate, though as we'll see, important opportunities also exist. 2008 was a very tough year for many businesses and industries and it's almost as hard to see how things …
Matt Richtel / New York Times:
A Text Arrives. Oh, It's Just an ‘Idol’ Ad. — Some AT&T Wireless customers have voted an emphatic no on a promotion for “American Idol” that popped up on their phones this week. — AT&T, a sponsor of the show, said it sent text messages to a “significant number” of its 75 million customers …
Brad Stone / New York Times:
Report Calls Online Threats to Children Overblown — The Internet may not be such a dangerous place for children after all. — A high-profile task force created by 49 state attorneys general to find a solution to the problem of sexual solicitation of children online has concluded …
Steven Musil / CNET News:
Blockbuster to offer video downloads — In an effort to keep pace with rival Netflix, Blockbuster announced a partnership Wednesday to offer instant access to its video library through various home and portable devices. — The movie rental company has partnered with Sonic Solutions to offer …
Benjamin Edelman / Ben Edelman:
False and Deceptive Display Ads at Yahoo's Right Media … Given limited enforcement of restrictions on deceptive online advertising, numerous banner advertisers are willing to resort to trickery to draw attention to their offerings. And plenty of web site publishers stand ready to run deceptive ads.
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Stan Schroeder / Mashable!:
YouTube Now Mutes Videos With Unauthorized Copyrighted Music — Perhaps this has been going on for a while, but I've never noticed it before. YouTube users often create an original video using their favorite popular song as the audio. I'm afraid that they won't be able to do that much longer …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
PubMatic: Remnant Ad Prices Are Half What They Were A Year Ago — Fourth quarter data is starting to trickle in on how bad the online advertising downturn is turning out to be. The latest data comes from Pubmatic, an online ad optimization service used by more than 5,000 sites large and small.
Globe and Mail:
Nortel to file for bankruptcy protection — Facing $107-million interest on debts, former telecom giant will likely be broken up and sold to foreign rivals — Former technology titan Nortel Networks Corp. is expected to file for bankruptcy protection as early as today, sources say …
BIZ / Twitter Blog:
It's Business Time! — Twitter receives a crushing amount of partnership opportunities on a regular basis—it's a good problem to have yet until now there has been nobody on staff dedicated solely to business development. Things are changing. We hired Kevin Thau as our Director of Mobile Business Development late last month.
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Tony Smith / The Register:
DisplayPort revision to get mini connector, stereo 3D — Apple's MacBook monitor port to enter standard — Laptop vendors will be soon be able to use the same mini-DisplayPort connector found on Apple's latest MacBooks. — The tiny port is to be included in the upcoming DisplayPort 1.2 specification …
Michael Wei / Reuters:
China Internet users soar to 298 million — BEIJING (Reuters) - The number of Internet users in China jumped nearly 42 percent to 298 million by the end of 2008 from the previous year, cementing the country's position as the world's largest Internet population, the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) said.
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Flora Graham / BBC:
Gaza crisis spills onto the web — A propaganda war between supporters of Israel and Palestine is being waged on the internet. — Activists have turned to defacing websites, taking over computers, and shutting down Facebook groups. — US Military sites, Nato, and an Israeli Bank have all been targeted in recent days.
Elinor Mills / CNET News:
Piracy prompts iPhone developer to put ads in game — When James Bossert saw he that his Whack 'em All iPhone game had 400 new users in one day last week he initially got excited. But that sentiment quickly changed when he saw that only 12 people had paid 99 cents for the game on Apple's iPhone App Store.
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John Letzing / MarketWatch:
Ex-Yahoo executive Rosensweig joins Adobe board — SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Dan Rosensweig, a former Yahoo Inc. executive who left the troubled Internet company as it began an unstable period of management turnover and a declining stock price, will join the board of directors at Adobe Systems Inc., Adobe said late Tuesday.
Sherri / philosecurity:
Interview with an Adware Author — Matt Knox, a talented Ruby instructor and coder, talks about his early days designing and writing adware for Direct Revenue. (Direct Revenue was sued by Eliot Spitzer in 2006 for allegedly surreptitiously installing adware on millions of computers.)
Darrell Etherington / TheAppleBlog:
MobileMe Free Trials Could Lose Your Precious Files — The MobileMe trial began to seem like it was going to go on forever, since Apple kept tacking on more time to make up for having released a half-baked service to begin with. Sadly, not so. My own trial term recently came to an end …
Rebecca Reisner / Business Week:
Comcast's Twitter Man — For Frank Eliason, managing the cable giant's customer service department means tweeting strategically — I think it's safe to call Comcast's Frank Eliason the most famous customer service manager in the U.S., possibly in the world.
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Mac clone maker claims it bought OS X from Apple — Embattled Psystar says Apple can't tell it what to do with legit copies of the OS — Computerworld) The Mac clone maker being sued by Apple Inc. because it installs Mac OS X on generic Intel-based systems said it bought copies …
Mike Elgan / Computerworld Blogs:
Why Sony is the new Apple — Analysts say that Japanese consumer electronics giant Sony will report full-year operating losses for the first time since 1995 during an earnings call later this month. The news comes on the heels of seven years of missed earnings. So why do I think the company is poised for a massive come-back?
