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Brad Stone / New York Times:
EBay Files Suit Against Craigslist — SAN FRANCISCO — All is not well in eBay's extended family. — EBay, based in San Jose, Calif., filed a lawsuit Tuesday in the state of Delaware against Craigslist, the online classified advertising company in which it owns a minority interest.
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eBay Files Corporate Governance Suit to Protect its Investment in craigslist — SAN JOSE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—In order to safeguard its four-year financial investment in craigslist, eBay (Nasdaq:EBAY - News)(www.ebay.com) today filed a lawsuit in the Court of Chancery of the State …
Jim / craigslist blog:
Tainted Love — Ebay has filed suit against craigslist and its board of directors: — http://news.ebay.com/releasedetail.cfm? ReleaseID=305980 — We are surprised and disappointed by Ebay's unfounded allegations, which came to us out of the blue, without any attempt to engage in a dialogue with us.
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
eBay Finally Loses Cool: Sues Craigslist Over “Stake Dilution” — eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) and Craigslist, never the happy brethren, have barely tolerated each other over the years since the former bought a stake in the online classifieds phenom in 2004. The two compete head on …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Microsoft's Mesh Revealed—Sync All Apps And All Files To All Devices (As Long As They're Windows) — Ray Ozzie first hinted at it during a keynote speech last March. But tonight Microsoft is finally launching a preview beta of Live Mesh, a new Windows Live platform for syncing files and …
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Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Ten things to know about Microsoft's Live Mesh — Microsoft took the wraps off Live Mesh at 9 p.m. PDT on April 22, just ahead of the service's official debut at the Web 2.0 Expo this week. — Live Mesh is an ambitious initiative — a combination of a platform and a service …
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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
DRM sucks redux: Microsoft to nuke MSN Music DRM keys — Customers who have purchased music from Microsoft's now-defunct MSN Music store are now facing a decision they never anticipated making: commit to which computers (and OS) they want to authorize forever, or give up access to the music they paid for.
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Yahoo's first quarter good; Not good enough for a higher Microsoft bid; Yang wants more — Updated: Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang said he was “open to all and any alternatives including a sale to Microsoft” following the company's first quarter results. The brief comments indicate Yahoo hasn't ruled …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:Yahoo Q1 Earnings Released, Revenues and Earnings Above Expectations
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:Yahoo Q1 Results Just Good Enough
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Daniel Terdiman / Geek Gestalt:
Twitter Japan launches, with ads — Twitter Japan launched Tuesday evening California time, and unlike the English-language version of the popular microblogging site, it will feature ads from the get-go. — In a conversation Tuesday evening, Joi Ito, of Digital Garage …
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StreetInsider.com:
Sony Corporation of America to Acquire Gracenote — Sony Corporation of America (SCA) announced today that it has signed a merger agreement with Gracenote, Inc. Sony will pay approximately $260 million plus other contingent consideration. — “Gracenote is a global leader in technology …
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Brian Solis / bub.blicio.us:
You Can Run, But You Can't Hide from FriendFeed — I'm working from the press room at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco and my pal Marshall Kirkpatrick asked me if I have tried MySocial 24×7, a new tool for keeping up with your FriendFeed firehose. — Marshall wrote about it here.
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:Take Your Friends' Activities Wherever You Go With MySocial 24X7
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Google sued over advertising program — A lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court accuses Google of deceiving its customers into paying for ads they didn't expressly request. — When participating in Google's online auction-based advertising system, customers specify what they would be willing …
MG Siegler / VentureBeat:
Search Wikia takes a step closer to the promise of ‘search meets Wikipedia’ — When the guy behind Wikipedia launches a search engine, the world is going to watch. And watch they did when Jimmy Wales unveiled Search Wikia in January — perhaps a little too closely.
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InfoWorld:
FCC: Comcast blocking was widespread — Comcast's slowing of peer-to-peer traffic appeared to be more widespread than the company has disclosed, the chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission said Tuesday. — FCC chairman Kevin Martin, testifying before a Senate committee …
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Brian Caulfield / Forbes:
Apple's Secret Life — Forget Steve Jobs. — The time to get the scoop on Apple's (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) next move is not when its charismatic founder is pitching the faithful on the computer and gadget maker's next product. It's when his minions—Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook …
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Mason Inman / New Scientist:
To defeat a malicious botnet, build a friendly one — Beating the “botnets” - armies of infected computers used to attack websites - requires borrowing tactics from the bad guys, say computer security researchers. — A team at the University of Washington, US, want to marshal swarms of good computers to neutralise the bad ones.
