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5:45 PM ET, February 18, 2010

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Yahoo! Search Blog:
News about our Search Alliance with Microsoft  —  Today we issued a press release announcing that we've received clearance from both the U.S. Department of Justice and the European Commission for our search agreement with Microsoft.  Now that we're full steam ahead, I'd like to share what we at Yahoo! …
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Peter Chapman / Bloomberg:
Microsoft, Yahoo Deal Wins European Union Antitrust Approval  —  Feb. 18 (Bloomberg) — Microsoft Corp. won European Union approval to buy Yahoo! Inc.'s Web-search business to speed up its effort to compete with Google Inc.  —  The deal won't harm competition in the 27-nation EU …
Rafat Ali / paidContent:
Microsoft & Yahoo Get Regulatory Clearances in U.S. & Europe …
Ryan Tate / Gawker:
What Steve Jobs Said During His Wall Street Journal iPad Demo  —  We know that Apple's CEO is no fan of Flash, the Web animation software.  But it sounds like Steve Jobs really unleashed on the Adobe system to try and convince the Wall Street Journal to ditch it for the iPad.
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AppleInsider:
Steve Jobs calls Flash a ‘CPU hog’ in meeting with WSJ - rumor
Discussion: MacRumors and Electronista
Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:
School used student laptop webcams to spy on them at school and home  —  According to the filings in Blake J Robbins v Lower Merion School District (PA) et al, the laptops issued to high-school students in the well-heeled Philly suburb have webcams that can be covertly activated …
Business Wire:
PayPal is Now a Way to Pay for Facebook Ads and Facebook Credits  —  PALO ALTO, Calif. & SAN JOSE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Facebook and PayPal today announced a strategic relationship to offer PayPal in key parts of Facebook's advertising and developer systems.
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Eric Eldon / Inside Facebook:
Facebook's Increasing Focus on Credits Prompts Developer Speculation
Discussion: Erictric
Vladislav Savov / Engadget:
Sony Ericsson CEO: Google asked us to build the Nexus One, we refused  —  Aw, why don't these CEOs say stuff like this in press conferences?  Sony Ericsson's head Bert Nordberg has shared with Swedish publication Sydsvenskan the rather salacious news that his company was asked to build …
Scott Moritz / TheStreet.com:
Microsoft, Asus Team on Phone: Exclusive  —  NEW YORK (TheStreet) — Apple (AAPL Quote) did it.  Google (GOOG Quote) did it.  Now it's Microsoft's (MSFT Quote) turn.  —  The Redmond, Wash., software giant is working with computer hardware manufacturer Asustek to build its own phone.
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WMPoweruser.com:
Windows Phone 7 development docs leaked  —  Click for larger versions.  —  We can always count on XDA-Developers to bring us the news early.  In this case it is some snippets of the developer documentation for Windows Phone 7.  The above bit confirms the OS is multi-tasking capable, but then we knew this already.
Motoko Rich / New York Times:
Apple's Prices for E-Books May Be Lower Than Expected  —  Maybe e-book prices won't be rising so much after all.  —  Since Apple announced plans to sell digital books on its forthcoming iPad, it has been cast as something of a savior of the publishing industry for allowing e-book prices …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Pollice Verso: Google Buys Awesome iPhone Email App; Kills It  —  As you might have heard earlier today, Google made another acquisition — the email search startup reMail.  While its topical description may make it seem like an obvious buy, there's another layer that makes this really interesting. reMail …
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Clint Boulton / Google Watch:
How Google Is Becoming a Startup Incubator
Discussion: GMSV and Android Phone Fans
Siobhan Gorman / Wall Street Journal:
Broad New Hacking Attack Detected  —  Global Offensive Snagged Corporate, Personal Data at nearly 2,500 Companies; Operation Is Still Running  —  Hackers in Europe and China successfully broke into computers at nearly 2,500 companies and government agencies over the last 18 months …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google Voice Launches A Series Of Videos To Explain Its “Awesomeness,” Gibberish  —  Google Voice is a great service, one of the best things Google has released in a long time.  Unfortunately, most casual web users have no idea what it is.  Or more specifically, what it's purpose is.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Brainstorm Tech:
Apple conceals iPad freight records - report  —  Moves to hide ocean shipping data from competitors and prying reporters, according to trade privacy group  —  In preparation for the scheduled March delivery of Apple's (AAPL) new iPad tablet computer, the company has blocked its bills of lading …
Discussion: PRWeb and MacNN
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Dell earnings: Enterprise spending rebounds  —  Dell reported a better-than-expected fourth quarter as enterprise sales rebounded.  The company said that it was “cautiously optimistic” that commercial IT spending will improve throughout the year ahead amid “ongoing signs of stabilization.”
tdgresearch.com:
Half of Netflix ‘Watch Instantly’ Users Are Streaming to the TV  —  New TDG Report Reveals Significant Progress  —  in Netflix Over-the-Top Efforts, Profiles Early OTT Adopters  —  According to a newly published study from TDG - the nation's leading new media research consultancy …
Discussion: DSLreports and Crave
Zee / The Next Web:
Wordpress.com is down taking all its blogs with it.  —  This is a rarity but Wordpress.com, the Internet's largest blogging platform is down.  —  The good news is that the team are aware and hard at work attempting to get things back up and running.  There's no word on what caused the problem just yet.
Discussion: Mashable!, Thanks:martinsfp
Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
The Most Popular YouTube Videos and the Bloggers Who Embed Them  —  YouTube is, by far, the most popular online video service, but we actually know very little about how bloggers use the service to embed videos on their own sites.  Sysomos, the Toronto-based social media analytics and monitoring firm …
Discussion: Sysomos
Robert Andrews / mocoNews:
UK Newspapers Want BBC Mobile Apps Blocked For ‘Undermining’ Them, BBC Disagrees  —  I wondered how long it would be before print media pointed at the BBC's new smartphone apps plan as another example of expansion in to their commercial territory.  The answer: just 24 hours...
Discussion: BBC, Tech Eye and www.pocketgamer.biz
Wall Street Journal:
PC Makers Ready iPad Rivals  —  Computer makers are developing strategies and devices to challenge Apple Inc.'s iPad, hoping to capitalize on new interest in a category of gadgets that was moribund until recently.  —  In the next few weeks, executives from Hewlett-Packard Co. will meet …
Alexander Vaughn / App Advice:
Apple Pushes The App Over 3G Download Limit To 20MB, Prepares For The iPad?  —  Most likely in preparation for the iPad launch, Apple has just raised the maximum size of apps that can be download over 3G to 20MB.  —  Until now, the iPhone required a Wi-Fi connection to download apps bigger than 10mb …
 
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Fred / A VC:
How Unique Is A Unique Visitor?  —  I access the web each …
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Michael Learmonth / AdAge:
Google Names New Head of Display Advertising
Discussion: paidContent
Michael Steen / Financial Times:
TomTom unfazed by free navigation apps
Electronista:
Kingston intros 256GB DataTraveler 300 flash drive
Discussion: Engadget
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Moonshoot Raises $6.6 Million To Teach English Through Online Gaming
Discussion: VentureBeat
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Mike Snider / USA Today:
Value of social game company Zynga? Perhaps more than $3 billion
Discussion: VentureBeat
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
EveryScape Raises Another $6 Million For Local 3D Street Search
Discussion: paidContent, PR Newswire and VatorNews
Chippy / UMPCPortal:
Next-Gen Mifi Firmware Includes GPS and Apps. Demo Video.
Discussion: SlashGear and Obsessable
Eric Lai / Computerworld:
Apple disses our DRM for iPad, Adobe says
Discussion: Macworld and Geek.com
Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
BlackBerry users get Amazon Kindle app
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Mountain View Mulls A Googletopia
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