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Brian Stoler / The Official Google Blog:
Search for “me” on Google — It's no secret that from time to time many of us have searched on Google for our name or someone else's. When searching for yourself to see what others would find, results can be varied and aren't always what you want people to see — whether it's someone else with your name …
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Hoping To Improve People Search, Google Launches “Profile Results” — Ever searched for yourself on Google and come away dissatisfied, especially if someone else you share a name with seems to dominate the results? Ever looked for someone else and been disappointed that you couldn't find the person you wanted?
Business Wire:
Yahoo! Reports First Quarter 2009 Results — Company Exceeds Midpoint of Operating Cash Flow Outlook Range — Maintains Strong Balance Sheet with $3.7 Billion in Cash and Marketable Debt Securities — SUNNYVALE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO - News) …
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Yahoo Cutting 5% Of Staff — Here come Carol Bartz's cuts: As part of its Q1 earnings report, Yahoo (YHOO) said it's cutting 5% of its staff. Most Yahoos on the chopping block will find out within two weeks. — At the end of December, Yahoo had 13,600 employees.
Sam Diaz / Between the Lines:
Yahoo's Q1 profits plunge; still meets estimates — Yahoo today reported a first quarter net profit of $118 million, or 8 cents per share on net sales of 1.58 billion. Profits were down 78 percent, compared to the same quarter a year ago and revenues dipped 13 percent.
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Update on Yahoo-Microsoft Talks: “Hot and Heavy” — Microsoft and Yahoo have been busily ferreting away on talks about search and advertising partnership possibilities in what one person close to the situation described as “hot and heavy.” — But exactly how hot and how heavy depends …
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Tech Check with Jim Goldman, Tech Trader Daily, Between the Lines, tinyComb, Electronista and Silicon Alley Insider, Thanks:mrinaldesai
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Sunshine / LiveSide:
Web IM In Hotmail — Web IM is coming to Hotmail. It became available to users in France, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Spain, and the UK last month and starting today it will roll out to Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, and the USA. If your country is not in this list yet, don't fret!
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Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:Windows Live Becomes Even More Social: Integrates Facebook …
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LiveSide, Windows Live team blog, All about Microsoft, The Windows Blog, TechCrunch, Ars Technica and Neowin.net
Heather Hopkins / Hitwise Intelligence:
Oprah Effect on Twitter — Oprah Winfrey, the icon that can turn any book or product into a best seller, posted her first Tweet on Friday on her show. There's been much debate among loyal Twitter users about whether this spells the end for Twitter's coolness, as soccer moms sign up in droves.
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ReadWriteWeb, Silicon Alley Insider, The SiliconANGLE, Mashable! and Digital Inspiration, Thanks:mrinaldesai
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Think Big! Could Sun/ORCL Trigger IBM/SAP Combo? — Ah, spring is the air. (In Silicon Valley, where the temps this week have soared into the 90s, it actually feels more like August.) And the natives are in the mood for love. — So far this week, we've seen Sun Microsystems (JAVA) …
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Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Microsoft Report:
Living with the limits of Windows 7 Starter Edition — If you've read anything about Windows 7 Starter Edition, your first reaction was probably the same as mine: Is Microsoft nuts? This ultra-cheap edition is intended for use on netbooks, but its biggest restriction sounds like a complete deal-breaker …
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Google joins effort for 3D Web standard with new plugin, API — Google has released a new open source browser plugin that provides APIs for displaying rich 3D graphics in Web content. Google hopes that the plugin will help to advance a collaborative effort to create open standards for bringing 3D to the Web.
Business Wire:
The New York Times Company Reports 2009 First-Quarter Results — NEW YORK—(BUSINESS WIRE)—The New York Times Company announced today a first-quarter 2009 operating loss of $61.6 million compared with operating profit of $6.2 million in the first quarter of 2008.
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TechCrunch, paidContent.org, Podcasting News, Dealscape, MediaMemo and Silicon Alley Insider
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BT blocks off Pirate Bay — Updated at 1.10pm: BT and other mobile broadband providers are blocking access to The Pirate Bay, as part of a “self-regulation” scheme. — BT Mobile Broadband users who attempt to access the notorious BitTorrent tracker site are met with a “content blocked” message.
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Ars Technica, iwf.org.uk, The Register, TorrentFreak, p2pnet, paidContent, open and mocoNews
Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Study: pirates biggest music buyers. Labels: yeah, right — Those who download illegal copies of music over P2P networks are the biggest consumers of legal music options, according to a new study by the BI Norwegian School of Management. Researchers examined the music downloading habits …
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paidContent, Mashable!, Electronista, Guardian, Music Ally, CNET News, CrunchGear, Boing Boing, p2pnet, PSFK and digg.com
Scott Rosenberg / Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard:
Mark Penn's fuzzy pro-blogging stats — I did a lot of digging around in the numbers around blogging for my book, so I'm on alert when I read a piece like Mark Penn's look at pro blogging in the Wall Street Journal, which is getting lots of attention this morning. A little skepticism is definitely in order.
Saul Hansell / Bits:
The Cost of Downloading All Those Videos — In an article in today's New York Times, I wrote about the controversy over the now-abandoned plan by Time Warner Cable to impose additional fees on customers who upload and download more than a set quota. — AT&T continues to test a similar plan …
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Epicenter, DSLreports, NewTeeVee, Public Knowledge and New York Times, Thanks:mrinaldesai
Orlando Sentinel:
Lose your job? Tell your Facebook, Twitter friends — Last week, Sarah Bryant was too upset to call anybody after she was fired from her call-center job of three years. Instead, she sat down at her computer and posted “I got fired” on her Twitter and Facebook profiles.
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Matt Buchanan / Gizmodo:
CNBC Is Ridiculous: Macs Come With Photoshop, PCs Need $600 Extra to ‘Perform As Well As a Mac’ — Regular people are probably confused by the re-inflamed Mac vs. PC ad war, which now focuses on price. Never fear, CNBC's Jim Goldman breaks down the true cost of PCs. Wait, Macs come with Photoshop?
Ina Fried / CNET News:
Mayo Clinic, Microsoft deepen health record ties — The Mayo Clinic on Tuesday said it will build a personal health record service based on Microsoft's HealthVault technology. — The product, Mayo Clinic Health Manager, will initially focus on general pediatric and adult health issues, immunization records, pregnancy, and asthma.
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Ars Technica, Microsoft Pri0, paidContent.org, Softpedia News and Minneapolis Star Tribune
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Sharp's Mebius PC-NJ70A packs LCD trackpad for the whiz-bang crowd — And you thought Apple's button-less “glass trackpad” was hot stuff. Sharp has just let loose details on its thoroughly Japanese Mebius PC-NJ70A, which sadly packs an exceptionally boring list of internal components …
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Danny Sullivan / Daggle:
Time For Google To Fund An Online-Only Version Of The Pulitzers? — The Pulitzer Prizes were announced today — and sincere congrats to the hard-working journalists who've won those highest of prizes. But with no online-only publications winning — in the first year they were eligible to enter …
Maggie Shiels / BBC:
Google rolls out search changes — Google has launched two experimental products it hopes will change the way users search for pictures and news. — A feature known as Similar Images uses a picture rather than text to find other matching images. — Timeline presents information already available …
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
SF Mayor Gavin Newsom Tweets His Way Into The Race For California Governor — Remember when the hippest way to blaze onto the campaign trail was an appearance on The Daily Show? No more. — This morning San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom announced his bid for California Governor via Twitter …
Karl Bode / DSLreports:
Comcast Expands DOCSIS 3.0 In Bay Area - New community launches include Palo Alto and San Mateo — Comcast gave us a nudge this morning to note that the nation's largest cable company is continuing their expansion of faster DOCSIS 3.0 technology into the Bay Area.
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Brian Womack / Bloomberg:
Yahoo's Bartz Picks Balogh to Tear Down ‘Wall of Shame’ of Failed Products — Yahoo! Inc. Chief Executive Officer Carol Bartz said last month that she created a “wall of shame” for products she isn't happy with. She's counting on her top technology executive to fix them.
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