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Kevin Rose / Digg Blog:
Digg & Yahoo! — Yesterday, I saw a couple digg stories reporting rumors about Yahoo! acquiring digg - I posted a small comment on digg dispelling the rumors and thought that was the end of it. Then, I woke up this morning to see TechCrunch (great site btw), CNN, CNET, and a few others fueling the rumors.
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Burtonator / Kevin Burton's Feed Blog:
Yahoo Will Buy Digg - Announcement Early Next Week — I've now heard from two sources close to Yahoo which tell me that Yahoo is going to be buying Digg for nearly $30M. I haven't yet heard from anyone working for Yahoo that this is 100% (they obviously had 'no comment') …
Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Google admits online stumble — Google Inc., trying to extend its dominance of Internet search into the market for videos, said it made a mistake with the design of an online store. — Shows for sale weren't well promoted on the home page of Google Video, which was introduced earlier this month …
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Jay Greene / Business Week:
The Bug in Microsoft's Ear — The software giant is mulling its own digital device that adds gaming to music and video, in an effort to compete with Apple's iPod empire — After getting trounced for four years in the digital music business by Apple Computer (AAPL), Microsoft (MSFT) finally seems poised to do something about it.
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Joystiq, Xbox 360 Fanboy, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, eHomeUpgrade, PaidContent.org, IP Democracy, Michael Gartenberg, Kotaku, Slashdot and Gamecloud
Josh / Bokardo:
Microsoft Didn't Give User Data to DOJ in Privacy Case (podcast) — First, the podcast: Microsoft, Google, and the DOJ Privacy Case (7.21 MB mp3 ) — During a meeting today at the Microsoft Search Champs Conference in Redmond, WA, Yusuf Mehdi, Senior VP of MSN Information Services …
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Om Malik / Om Malik on Broadband:
Yahoo's New CPO Loves His Mac — You might have worked for the company for a decade, but that doesn't mean you will get a new cappuccino machine. It does mean that you get a new ID card, that says you have worked for the company for 10 years, and it also means you get a new gig.
Rick Segal / The Post Money Value:
A VC Rant with an opportunity — Short story. "Joe" has been working for 5 years to bring a software product to market while keeping the day job waiting & bussing tables. He has a wife, two kids, a dog and they live in a small nothing apartment. — For years, Joe toils away while pounding …
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Roblimo / interviews.slashdot.org:
MS Security VP Mike Nash Replies — You posted a lot of great questions for Mike Nash last week, and he put a lot of time into answering them. As promised, his answers were not laundered by PR people, which is all too common with "executive" interviews with people from any company.
cellular-news.com:
Cingular Patents the Emoticon :( — The USA based mobile operator, Cingular Wireless has managed to get a patent on the concept of using emoticon on mobile phones. While the aim of the patent is to enable the displaying of MSN style graphics on handsets, they also managed to patent …
Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Google Cache Ruled Fair Use — A district court in Nevada has ruled that the Google Cache is a fair use. — Blake Field, an author and attorney, brought the copyright infringement lawsuit against Google after the search engine automatically copied and cached a story he posted on his website.
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CNN:
Google founder defends China portal — Also: How the powerful make their way to Davos, and what they're doing instead of networking. — DAVOS, Switzerland (FORTUNE) - The World Economic Forum, a gathering of leaders from the business world, media, academics, and assorted hollywood stars and do-gooders, is taking place this week.
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Financial Times, Search Engine Watch Blog, Rough Type, Techdirt, Google Blogoscoped, Message and Tom Raftery's I.T. views
Umair / Bubblegeneration Strategy Lab:
The Problems With 2.0, pt 345314 — I luv Memeorandum and all it's reconstructor cousins. It's one of the first things of my reading list. It's hugely slashed my search costs in finding new stuff. — But there's a problem. Ever since I've started using it to the point where it replaces …
Jenstar / JenSense:
Google AdSense begins rich media beta test — Google AdSense is moving beyond the traditional text and graphical advertising to rich media, including interstitials, expanding ads and floating ads. AdSense began contacting publishers last week to be involved in the rich media limited beta test.
Marc Perton / Engadget:
Government turns up volume on GPS — The US governmentflicked the switch today on a new GPS signal, known as L2C. The signal, according to the government, is transmitted ata higher effective power, allowing it to "work better in urban areas and indoors." The new signal, beingtransmitted …
Ben Charny / eWEEK.com:
Microsoft Blogs Make Room for Ads — Microsoft's MSN Spaces blogging features are set for a major upgrade to incorporate a revenue-sharing advertising option and a new partnership with Amazon.com, according to various sources. — What Liveside.Net, and other Microsoft watchers are describing …
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ZDNet:
Ancient flaws leave OS X vulnerable? — OS X contains unpatched security flaws of a type that were fixed on alternative operating systems more than a decade ago, according to a security researcher credited with finding numerous bugs in Apple's increasingly popular platform.
microsoft.com:
Microsoft Expands Internet Research Efforts With Founding of Live Labs — MSN and Microsoft Research co-found applied research lab; Live Labs and Silicon Valley Search Labs will lead the next evolution of innovation in Internet products and services. — REDMOND, Wash. — Jan. 25, 2006 …