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Rebecca MacKinnon / RConversation:
Yahoo! Abomination. (YHOO) — Yahoo! founder Jerry Yang continues to spew excrement, echoing his shoulder-shrugging of earlier this month, which essentially amounts to saying: So sorry we assisted in human rights violations, but there's nothing we can do if we're going to bring the Internet to the Chinese people.
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Rebecca MacKinnon / RConversation:Holding companies to account with Google Finance
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Om Malik / CNN:
VC dollars return to the desktop — No longer spooked by Microsoft, startup investors are backing desktop-software startups again — but this time, the desktop's on the Web. — SAN FRANCISCO (Business 2. Magazine) - Microsoft used to cast such a pall over startups that venture capitalists …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Hive 7, An Ajaxian Virtual World — Max Skibinsky knows javascript. He knows it so well, that he was working on applications in what he "double-channel javascript." Thank god, that didn't catch on and instead we ended up with a more friendly Ajax acronym.
PR Newswire:
Apple's Move to Limit iPod Volume Acknowledges Product Flaw, Attorneys Contend — Apple Introduces Software to Cap Potentially Damaging Volume Levels on Some Products — SEATTLE, March 29 /PRNewswire/ — Attorneys representing Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL - News) iPod owners in a national class-action lawsuit …
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Tom Neumayr / apple.com:Apple Provides Volume Limit Setting for iPod
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Marc Gunther / CNN:
News Corp. (hearts) MySpace — The media giant recently bought MySpace, the popular networking site for youth — and it looks like a grand-slam. — NEW YORK (FORTUNE) - When News Corp. (Research) paid $580 million for MySpace, an Internet site for teens and young adults …
Matt Casamassina / IGN:
Revolution's Horsepower — Studios give us the inside scoop on the clock rates for Broadway and Hollywood. How do the CPU and GPU stack up on paper? — March 29, 2006 - Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has said that his company is not interested in waging a technology war against Microsoft and Sony …
Chris Morris / CNN:
Nintendo president vows cheap games — Iwata discusses price hikes and ways to keep costs down as gaming enters the next generation. — Game Over is a weekly column by Chris Morris — NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - Nintendo has already vowed its next generation console will be cheaper than its competitors.
Bloomberg:
Google to Sell 5.3 Million Shares for S&P Index Funds (Update2) — March 29 (Bloomberg) — Google Inc., the most-used Internet search engine, plans to sell 5.3 million more shares to satisfy demand for the stock as the company joins the Standard & Poor's 500 Index.
Amanda Chapel / Strumpette:
Edelman Gang Gets Rough with Strumpette — Okay, if I may, I need to preface some. I'm preparing an article about Former German Chancellor Schroeder for later today; that's if I can get to it. Apparently Uncle Gerhard wants his supervisors at the Kremlin to fund a public relations venture in Western Europe.
Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
YouTube caps video lengths to reduce infringement — You may already know all about YouTube. Founded a year ago, YouTube has become a prime online destination for streaming video entertainment. It has also become a prime destination for copyright infringement, as many of the videos uploaded …
Nik Cubrilovic / TechCrunch:
AllOfMP3 Launches allTunes — AllofMP3 has released a beta of its latest desktop music library and download tool allTunes. Although the name is an obvious play on iTunes, those farmiliar with AllOFMP3 will know that they are infamous for extremely cheap, high quality and quasi-legal music downloads …
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Scobleizer / Microsoft Geek Blogger:
Three audiences, three different cultures — You might think that the trick to good speaking is speaking well. Being confident. Having interesting content. And all that. — Now that I've given a bunch of speeches (four in the past two days), I'm learning that the real skill a speaker needs is listening.
Paul Boutin / Slate:
Web 2.0 — The new Internet "boom" doesn't live up to its name. — Newsweek's April 3 cover story finally gives checkout-stand placement to "Web 2.0," everyone's favorite new tech buzzword. You've probably seen the phrase before—in the blogosphere, in the New York Times' coverage …
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biz.yahoo.com:
Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement, Financial Statements and Exhibits — Item 1.01. Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement. — The purpose of this Current Report on Form 8-K/A is to amend the Current Report on Form 8-K of Google Inc. ("Google"), filed on December 22, 2005 …
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Matthew Karnitschnig / Wall Street Journal:
Time Inc. Makes New Bid To Be Big Web Player — In the fall of 1994, before most people had even heard of the Internet, Time Inc. took a bold step: It put much of its premium print content online for free, launching Pathfinder, a Web-based trove of its magazines, including Time, People and Money.
