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Yahoo! Inc.:
Yahoo! Appoints Scott Thompson Chief Executive Officer — SUNNYVALE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)— Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO), the premier digital media company, today announced the appointment of Scott Thompson as Chief Executive Officer, effective January 9, 2012, at which time Tim Morse will resume his role as Chief Financial Officer.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Brand new CEO, same old messed up Yahoo — Yahoo has finally found a new chief executive to replace Carol Bartz (who left in a huff) and he is Scott Thompson, who till recently was the president of the PayPal division of eBay A surprise candidate, it is not very clear what his strategy …
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paidContent, TechCrunch, Deal Journal, Fast Company, Digits, eBay Ink, Motley Fool and @danprimack, more at Mediagazer »
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Yahoo's new CEO Thompson: Five big challenges
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CNET, The Atlantic Wire, L.A. Times Tech Blog, TechCrunch, Deal Journal, Epicenter and AllThingsD
Wall Street Journal:
Kodak Preparing for Chapter 11 Filing — Eastman Kodak Co. is preparing for a Chapter 11 bankruptcy-protection filing in the coming weeks should efforts to sell a trove of digital patents fall through, people familiar with the matter said. — The struggling photography icon …
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Elad Blog:
How Pinterest Will Transform the Web in 2012: Social Content Curation As The Next Big Thing — The most interesting wave hitting the social web in 2012 is social curation. This was kicked off in 2011 as Pinterest's growth was noticed by Silicon Valley and a number of companies quickly followed suit …
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Betabeat, Business Insider and metarand
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Paul Thurrott / WindowsITPro:
Exclusive: Microsoft and Nokia's Plans for Marketing Windows Phone in 2012 — With predictably parroting that information—I thought it might be worthwhile to set the record straight. Microsoft and Nokia will not spend “in the neighborhood of $100 million” to market Windows Phone this year.
Steve Blank:
Why The Movie Industry Can't Innovate and the Result is SOPA — This year the movie industry made $30 billion (1/3 in the U.S.) from box-office revenue. — But the total movie industry revenue was $87 billion. Where did the other $57 billion come from?
Kashmir Hill / The Not-So Private Parts:
Rick Santorum's Iowa Performance Helps His ‘Google Problem’ — Rick Santorum's performance in Iowa is good for his campaign, and for his Google problem. — Rick Santorum is the GOP presidential candidate known for his “Google problem.” A Google search of his name returns scatological results thanks …
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Search Engine Land, Pulse2, Mashable! and Media Decoder
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
File-Sharing Recognized as Official Religion in Sweden — All around the world file-sharers are being chased by anti-piracy outfits and the authorities, and the situation in Sweden is no different. While copyright holders are often quick to label file-sharers as pirates …
Scott Kirsner / Boston Globe:
Former Lotus and Microsoft exec Ray Ozzie hiring for new start-up, Cocomo — Ray Ozzie e-mailed earlier today to let me know that he has a post-Microsoft start-up, and he's hiring. But aside from mentioning that the company is called Cocomo and doesn't yet have an office of its own, he didn't want to divulge much more.
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All about Microsoft Blog and GigaOM
Rusty Blazenhoff / Laughing Squid:
PayPal Makes Buyer Destroy a Valuable Antique Violin To Get a Refund — Erica, a Regretsy reader, recently sold an old French violin to a Canadian buyer who then disputed the violin's label. In order for the buyer to get his money back, PayPal required him to completely destroy it and send …
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Regretsy, Digital Trends, The Register, TechCrunch, What Blag?, Gizmodo, WebProNews, Business Insider, kottke.org, Boing Boing and Guardian
Tiuri van Agten / Distimo:
Google Android Market Tops 400,000 Applications — Google Android Market gave itself a nice new year's present last weekend. The total number of active applications worldwide in the Android Market reached the 400,000 milestone. Android Market has topped the 200K and 300K available apps milestones …
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Datamation.com, PC Magazine, TechCrunch, ITProPortal, MobileBurn.com, msnbc.com, Redmond Pie, Techland, Inside Mobile Apps, Pulse2, PadGadget, AndroidGuys, The Register, Mobile Magazine, VentureBeat, Computerworld, Techie Buzz, Pocket-lint, The Verge, Business Insider, Softpedia News, IntoMobile and CNET, Thanks:gert_jan
Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg / Wall Street Journal:
Barnes & Noble Aims to Sell Publishing Unit — Barnes & Noble Inc. has put its Sterling Publishing business up for sale, say people familiar with the situation, signaling a likely end to its decades-long involvement in the publishing of its own books. — The book retailer has been in publishing since …
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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
Are You The World's Best Programmer? Compete In Facebook's 2012 Hacker Cup — Facebook has announced its 2012 Hacker Cup, a global computer programming competition. The event will serve as an important recruiting tool to attract great coders to the company, which is constantly battling …
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Computerworld, CNNMoney.com, Facebook and ReadWriteWeb
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
The Case of the Unfortunate Underscore: How Twitter Verified the Fake Wendi Over the Real Wendi — I went all Encyclopedia Brown yesterday after I and many others had been led astray by an account — @wendi_deng — that Twitter had verified with its famous blue check mark over the holiday weekend …
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MediaFile, @wendi_deng, @realdanlyons and Gawker, more at Mediagazer »
Pui-Wing Tam / Wall Street Journal:
Some Venture Funds Hit ‘Pause’ on Big Deals — SAN FRANCISCO—Over the past year, Marc Andreessen invested in a series of high-profile Web companies, including Facebook Inc., Twitter Inc. and Groupon Inc. Now the Silicon Valley venture capitalist is hitting the pause button on such big-name deals.
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Steven Bertoni / Forbes:
Spotify's Daniel Ek: The Most Important Man In Music — Spotify's Daniel Ek created a free, Facebook-enabled platform that could save the recording industry from piracy-and iTunes. — It's a typically damp, dark November afternoon in Stockholm, and Daniel Ek is ill. Over the past month …
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Macgasm and Evolver.fm
Élyse Betters / 9to5Google:
Android platform distribution statistics updated: .6-percent or around a million devices on ICS — The latest Android platform versions distributions chart was announced yesterday after the Android Developers' website collected data for two weeks, and the share results reaped a few surprising figures.
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parislemon, Gizmodo, Engadget, IntoMobile, The Next Web, Business Insider, GadgeTell, The Verge, Softpedia News, Android and Me, BGR, AndroidGuys, Electronista, PC Magazine, Pocketables, ReadWriteWeb and Tech Trader Daily
Electronic Frontier Foundation:
EFF Raises Concerns About the New AOL Instant Messenger — The new preview version of AOL Instant Messenger raised privacy concerns for us when it was first introduced, first because it started storing more logs of communications and second, because it apparently scanned all private IMs for URLs and pre-fetched any URLs found in them.
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Dennis Fisher, Zero Day Blog and PC World
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Verizon iPhone Sales More Than Double to 4.2 Million in Holiday Quarter — Verizon Wireless Chief Financial Officer Fran Shammo today participated in Citi's Global Entertainment, Media & Communications Conference, and as part of his presentation revealed some iPhone sales numbers for the carrier.
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Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
iPad users account for 19% of App Store downloads, snag some 3 billion apps — Since the launch of the iPad, its users have downloaded 3 billion apps cumulatively, reports ABI research. That's 19% of all cumulative downloads from the App Store. This also means that the iPad has reached …
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ABI Research, Neowin.net, PadGadget, GigaOM, Inside Mobile Apps, TUAW and SlashGear, Thanks:sonnyjohns
Bloomberg:
Quanta Sues AMD Over Allegedly Unsuitable Chips for NEC Notebook Computers — Quanta Computer Inc. (2382), the world's largest contract maker of notebook computers, sued Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) for breach of contract, alleging the chipmaker sold defective products.
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Jennifer Van Grove / VentureBeat:
Tumblr releases Fan Mail for private messaging — Popular blogging platform Tumblr is out with a new feature Wednesday designed to help its growing user base send private messages to each other. — The new feature is called Fan Mail and it enables Tumblr members to send stylish messages to the blog owners they follow.
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parislemon, Tumblr Staff and The Next Web
Tom Warren / The Verge:
All cellphones in Chile must be sold unlocked from January 2nd — The Republic of Chile has announced that all cellphones sold within the country starting last Monday, January 2nd, must be unlocked for use on any carrier. Chile's telecoms regulator, Subtel, revealed its plans over Twitter on Monday …
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PhoneArena and Phones Review
Lauren Goode / AllThingsD:
Roku to Launch Cordless Streaming Stick for TVs — Roku, maker of competitively priced set-top boxes that stream Web video on TVs, is introducing a new device it thinks will offer a simpler option for Internet connectivity than some “smart” TVs. — Today, the company is unveiling plans …
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Kevin Lincoln / Business Insider:
The Guys Behind The Verge Just Went On Another Huge Talent Raid For A New Gaming Site — For the last week, there's been buzz about a new gaming site coming from Vox Media, the parent company of The Verge and SB Nation. — We can confirm that Vox is about to launch a big gaming vertical later …
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Griffin McElroy, The Verge, VentureBeat, GamePolitics blogs and VG247
Ryan Lawler / GigaOM:
Deloitte: 9% have cut cable, another 11% are considering it — Deloitte just released its sixth annual State of the Media Democracy survey, which (among other things) asks U.S. respondents how they get access to their content in a world full of new and exciting devices.
