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Yahoo!:
Yahoo! Re-Aligns Organization to More Effectively Focus on Key Customer Segments and Capture Future Growth Opportunities — New Structure to Focus on Serving More Sophisticated Demands of Audiences, Advertisers and Publishers Worldwide — SUNNYVALE, Calif., Dec 05, 2006 (BUSINESS WIRE) …
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Mercury News, Screenwerk, PaidContent, HipMojo.com, Paul Kedrosky's …, CenterNetworks and Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard
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Terry Semel / Yodel Anecdotal:
Taking Yahoo! forward — When I joined Yahoo! five years ago, I found a company with incredible assets (huge audience, strong brand, healthy balance sheet), great potential, and a team filled with determination and a fighting spirit. But the company faced challenging economic conditions …
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Tech Beat, PaidContent, Silicon Valley Watcher, From Istanbul …, Valleywag and Chuqui 3.0
Natali Del Conte / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Execs Meet To Discuss Major Shakeup — Update - 6:15 pm: Yahoo released an official statement about the reorganization at approximately 5:45 p.m. The news confirms the resignation of COO Dan Rosensweig and elaborates on the company's new business focus. Get more details from our update.
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Between the Lines, Valleywag, Blogging Stocks, Jeremy Zawodny's blog, Zoli's Blog and CNET News.com
Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
Yahoo's Dan Rosensweig heading off for new adventures — My colleague Larry Dignan as well as many others (see TechMeme) have already covered the news about the management shake up and reorganization at Yahoo. I checked in with Dan Rosensweig, the Yahoo COO who resigned as part the reorg.
Miguel Helft / New York Times:Yahoo, Aiming for Agility, Shuffles Executives
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Lost Remote
Sherjo / Mac Mojo:
Converters Coming! Free and (Fairly) Fast. — There's been some pretty alarmist news stories this morning (apcstart.com; CrunchGear) about file format converters and Office for Mac. Because some of these stories seem designed more to inflame than inform, I want to reiterate …
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CrunchGear, Monkey Bites, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Infinite Loop, MacSlash and All about Microsoft
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Leslie Katz / CNET News.com:
Searchers think they are nearing missing CNET editor — Authorities searching the southwest Oregon wilderness for CNET editor James Kim said they believe they are close to finding the missing man, who has been stranded in a remote area for 10 days. — "This is frustrating; I mean we are so close …
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Microsoft:
Microsoft Security Advisory (929433) — Vulnerability in Microsoft Word Could Allow Remote Code Execution — Microsoft is investigating new public reports of limited "zero-day" attacks using a vulnerability in Microsoft Word 2000, Microsoft Word 2002, Microsoft Office Word 2003 …
PR Newswire:
Comcast Takes Gaming National With GameInvasion.net(TM) — Comcast, Major League Gaming and Ubisoft to offer exclusive gaming content — PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 5 /PRNewswire/ — Comcast (Nasdaq: CMCSA - News, CMCSK - News), the nation's leading provider of cable, entertainment and communications products …
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Prince McLean / AppleInsider:
Apple rumored to be eyeing video game market — A recent series of checks by Prudential analyst Jesse Tortora indicate that Apple Computer has hired video game designers and may have aspirations of entering the video game market in long-term. — "We think the video game market represents …
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HipMojo.com, Things That, CrunchGear, Infinite Loop, Chuqui 3.0, Gizmodo, The Next Net, Life On the Wicked Stage, VoIP & Gadgets Blog and digg
Candace Lombardi / CNET News.com:
Microsoft releasing book search in beta — Microsoft is releasing Live Search Books, its competitor to Google Book Search, in beta on Wednesday. — The book search engine performs keyword searches for books that have been scanned as part of Microsoft's book scanning project …
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TeleRead
Hirolog:
DarwiinRemote is released! — What is DarwiinRemote? — DarwiinRemote is a tiny software which reads data from and sends data to Nintendo Wii Remote — Inputs — 3-axis acceleration sensors — all buttons except power button on/off — Output — 4 LEDs — Force Feedback
Brad Stone / New York Times:
Spam Doubles, Finding New Ways to Deliver Itself — Hearing from a lot of new friends lately? You know, the ones that write "It's me, Esmeralda," and tip you off to an obscure stock that is "poised to explode" or a great deal on prescription drugs. — You're not the only one.
Peter Cohen / Macworld:
Macworld's 2006 Game Hall of Fame — 10 of the year's best Mac games and coolest accessories — If you're a pessimist, 2006 might have looked like a bleak year for Mac gaming. There were few major releases, even before the transition to Intel processors added more items to game developers' to-do lists.
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The Unofficial Apple Weblog
