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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Microsoft's Yahoo Offer: $8 Billion Stock Buyback; $1 Billion for Search — Oh, they're plenty irked in Redmond today, in the wake of Yahoo's (YHOO) picking of the Google (GOOG) ad-outsourcing deal over a proposal by Microsoft (MSFT). — And what exactly was that offer?
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Why Yahoo Passed On Microsoft's Search Deal (New Details!) — As of last weekend, Yahoo (YHOO) had two deals on the table: A Microsoft (MSFT) search deal and a Google (GOOG) search deal. Yahoo chose the Google deal. After speaking with a person familiar with Microsoft's thinking …
Peter Whoriskey / Washington Post:
Google-Yahoo Deal Raises Antitrust Fears — Google, already the world's dominant Web company, keeps on growing. — But the announcement on Thursday that it has struck a deal to assume some of the business of its nearest competitor, Yahoo, has aroused questions about whether the company …
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Brier Dudley / Brier Dudley's blog:
Microsoft president reveals Yahoo offer, bangs antitrust war drum — The latest scoop on the Microsoft offer that Yahoo rejected comes from a source familiar with Microsoft's position — Kevin Johnson, president of the platforms and services division. — In a memo sent today to employees …
Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News.com:Analysts don't rule out a Microsoft-Yahoo deal just yet
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Gina Trapani / Lifehacker:
Google Browser Sync Discontinued, No Firefox 3 Support — Reader hominid.todd says that a Google rep emailed him about the long-awaited status of the Browser Sync extension for Firefox 3. Turns out they're discontinuing development on it. Here's Google's response to hominid.todd's inquiry:
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Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:Google Browser Sync To Be Discontinued
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Social Networking Gets a Sanity Check — After years of hype, noise and funding, the social networking sector is finally getting a harsh, but necessary, sanity check. — Today there are numbers out from comScore that indicate plateauing growth for the big two — MySpace and Facebook …
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Technorati Raises $7.5 Million, Crashes — Technorati, the once-promising, but has-been blog search engine, has raised $7.5 million of a $10 million Series D round, PE Hub reports, citing a regulatory filing. Returning to invest more: Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Mobius Venture Capital, and FG Incubation, which runs Technorati Japan.
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Joseph Weisenthal / paidContent.org:
More Cash For Technorati: Blog Searcher Gets $7.5 Million Of $10 Million Fourth Round — Looks like the Technorati Monster has escaped again, gobbling up more cash... The perpetually “borked” blog search engine has raised another $7.5 million of a planned $10 million fourth round, reports peHUB, citing a regulatory filing.
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
AP Goes After Bloggers For Posting Article Headlines And Snippets — from the you're-going-to-lose,-badly dept — Last fall, the Associated Press claimed that it was ready to change to face the new internet world — and that meant not just being a gatekeeper, but joining in the conversation.
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Pthurrott / SuperSite Blog:
Bob Cringely is off his gourd — The Robert X. Cringely stuff was cute once, but it's hit “Fake Steve Jobs” territory now: We know who you are, and it's just not fun or funny anymore. More to the point, The X-Man's latest is just plain crazy talk: … It's worth noting, incidentally, that even the title of this post is horrible.
Jonathan Richards / Times of London:
Google: we don't know how to make money from YouTube — ‘A whole new industry’ could be created around video advertising on the web, Google said, but it's not sure how — Google has said that it is still unsure how to make money from YouTube, the enormously popular video-sharing website it owns, but hopes to be able to do so soon.
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Don Reisinger / The Digital Home:If it can't find a solution, Google should kill YouTube
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Matt Richtel / New York Times:
Lost in E-Mail, Tech Firms Face Self-Made Beast — SAN FRANCISCO — The onslaught of cellphone calls and e-mail and instant messages is fracturing attention spans and hurting productivity. It is a common complaint. But now the very companies that helped create the flood are trying to mop it up.
James Kendrick / jkOnTheRun:
Breaking news- eReader for the iPhone in the works — I read so many ebooks and I do it using the great reader application eReader. I have over 350 books in my eReader bookshelf and was happy to hear from the Fictionwise founder that they would continue to develop versions of eReader for different platforms.
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David Carnoy / CNET News.com:
Rumor: Xbox 360 price cut coming soon? — With Metal Gear Solid 4 finally available for the PlayStation 3, it doesn't take a genius to predict that the PS3 is going to get a boost from having a hit console-exclusive title under its belt. Nevertheless, analysts are boldly proclaiming change is asunder.
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Nik Cubrilovic / TechCrunch:
Get Ready For A New Platform War. Google Gears Drives Straight At Microsoft's Profits. — Google launched Gears last May, and for the first year of its release it was considered a minor, niche product that a few developers and users may take advantage of to allow offline access to web applications.
Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
Fake Steve Jobs Gets Real New Job: Leaving Forbes For Newsweek — Forbes editor Dan Lyons, best known to most of you as Fake Steve Jobs, is leaving his employer after a 10-year run and jumping to Newsweek, where he'll take tech columnist Steve Levy's old slot.
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