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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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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 …
Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Yahoo, Aiming for Agility, Shuffles Executives — Yahoo said Tuesday that it was restructuring its operations and shuffling its management ranks amid growing criticism in and outside the company that it had become too bureaucratic to compete effectively against nimbler rivals.
IMHO:
Back story on Yahoo reorganization... The timing of Yahoo's reorganization announcement signaled something else is going on. The time on the Businesswire release was 5.34pm Tuesday West Coast time. Usually such events are announced early the next day before the stock markets open …
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Two top Yahoo execs to leave in reorg — Yahoo's chief operating officer and the head of its entertainment group are leaving as part of a major reorganization announced late on Tuesday. — Chief Operating Officer Dan Rosensweig and Lloyd Braun, the head of Yahoo's media and entertainment group …
Dan Farber / Between the Lines:Yahoo's Dan Rosensweig heading off for new adventures
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Silicon Valley Watcher
Tom Foremski / Silicon Valley Watcher:YHOO news analysis: GOOG is setting the pace as Yahoo faces identity …
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Tom Foremski: IMHO
Natali Del Conte / TechCrunch:Yahoo Execs Meet To Discuss Major Shakeup
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GigaOM, Between the Lines, Valleywag, Chuqui 3.0, Blogging Stocks, Jeremy Zawodny's blog, Zoli's Blog and CNET News.com
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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Chuqui 3.0, Mad Techie Woman, Podcasting News, Joe Duck, Windows-Now.com, Lost Remote, Listening Post, Monkey Bites and digg
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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 …
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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 …
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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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.
Wall Street Journal:
In a Turnabout, Record Industry Releases MP3s — The music industry has long resisted selling music in the MP3 format, which lacks the copy protections that prevent songs from being duplicated endlessly. But now, Blue Note Records and its marquee artist, jazz-pop singer Norah Jones …
Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
MySpace to Apple: Fix that worm — MySpace.com wants Apple Computer to update its QuickTime media player software so it can't be used in attacks on the social-networking site. — The request comes after a worm in the form of a rigged QuickTime movie crawled onto MySpace.com over the weekend, changing people's MySpace profiles.
Tim O'Reilly / O'Reilly Radar:
Tools of Change Conference — Over the past year or so, I've been asked to give a number of talks focusing on the application of Web 2.0 ideas to publishing. It's a natural for O'Reilly. We're an innovative publisher. We're the originator of the term Web 2.0.
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Office Evolution
firstmonday.org:
The Meaning of Friendship — What constitutes a friend? In everyday vernacular, a friend is a relationship that involves some degree of mutual love or admiration. Some people exclude sexual partners and family members from this category while others talk about how such an individual …
