Top Items:
Fred Vogelstein / Wired News:
How Yahoo Blew It — Terry Semel was pissed. The Yahoo CEO had offered to buy Google for roughly $3 billion, but the young Internet search firm wasn't interested. Once upon a time, Google's founders had come to Yahoo for an infusion of cash; now they were turning up their noses …
Discussion:
michael parekh on IT, Search Engine Watch Blog, Clickety Clack, Feld Thoughts and Screenwerk
RELATED:
Wired News:
Yahoo Responds to Wired Story — Yahoo!'s acquisition of Overture in 2003 was a key milestone in the company's history that came with a unique set of challenges, but also many benefits. It allowed us to generate billions of dollars in search revenue - far more than we did as a syndication site …
InterActiveCorp:
IAC Appoints Peter Horan Chief Executive Officer of IAC Media & Advertising — IAC (Nasdaq: IACI) announced today that Peter Horan has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of IAC Media & Advertising. In this role, Mr. Horan will report to President and COO Doug Lebda and will be responsible …
RELATED:
Staci D. Kramer / PaidContent:Industry Moves: Peter Horan Leaving AllBusiness.com To Head IAC's …
Discussion:
Susan Mernit's Blog
The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
Office 2008 for the Mac screenshots — All rights reserved. The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) is a member of the Weblogs, Inc. Network. Privacy Policy — Other Weblogs Inc. Network blogs you might be interested in:
Gregg Keizer / InformationWeek:
Despite 100 Million IE 7 Installs, Microsoft's Browser Still Loses Ground — Firefox's share of the U.S. browser market is at 14% and has continued to grow each of the last three months, says one research firm. — Although Microsoft recently touted the 100 millionth installation of Internet Explorer 7 …
Discussion:
Mark Evans, Microsoft News Tracker, JD on EP, Spread Firefox, Asa Dotzler, InsideMicrosoft, digg and Slashdot
Darren Murph / Engadget:
1 in 8 blokes would swap their lady for a "must-have" gadget? — Alright, so we're taking this [survey] episode of propaganda quite lightly, but apparently an alarming amount of guys would give up their "must-have" woman for that "must-have" gizmo. Reportedly, a UK survey conducted by GfK NOP …
Andy Plesser / Beet.TV:
Obama Launches Presidential Bid with Web Video: Senator Has Comprehensive Online Video Strategy in Place with Brightcove — Earlier today, U.S. Senator Barack Obama announced the formation of an exploratory committee for a run for the White House with a three-minute video clip that can be shared by embed or e-mail.
Discussion:
The Latest from Brightcove, The Bivings Report, IP Democracy, Off On A Tangent, Scobleizer and Media SITREP
Joris Evers / CNET News.com:
AOL phisher faces up to 101 years in prison — A California man faces up to 101 years in federal prison after a jury found him guilty of sending out e-mail scams as well as related crimes. — Jeffrey Brett Goodin, 45, of Azusa, was convicted Friday on multiple counts by a jury …
corp.brightcove.com:
Brightcove Raises $59.5 Million in Series C Round — Strategic Funding Round, Including New Investment from Institutional Financial Investors and Media Companies, Solidifies Brightcove's Leadership in Internet TV — New Investors AllianceBernstein, Brookside Capital, Maverick Capital …
Brad Stone / New York Times:
Atop TV Sets, Basic Black Boxes Face Competition — Adam Gillitt does not hate what is on his TV as much as he dislikes what is attached to it. — Mr. Gillitt, a graphic designer from Alameda, Calif., is exasperated by his high-definition cable box, made by the technology giant Motorola …
Discussion:
IP Democracy
Simon Phipps / Simon Phipps, SunMink:
Edited Out of History — Now here's an interesting difference in corporate styles. I remember when I left IBM in 2000, the (extensive) mentions of me on IBM's web pages were gradually edited away until today, six years later, there seems to be only one or two left that date from my pre-Sun days …
Mark LaPedus / EE Times:
HP claims FPGA breakthrough — SAN JOSE, Calif. — Hewlett-Packard Co. claimed a breakthrough that could lead to the creation of field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) up to eight times denser — while using less energy for a given computation — than those currently being produced today.
RELATED:
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Wikiseek: Leveraging Wikipedia For Web Search, Poorly — The Wikipedia search engine has arrived — Wikiseek — but it's not the Wikipedia search engine you're thinking of. Wikiseek is completely different than the Search Wikia project backed by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales that I wrote about last month.
Discussion:
Lifehacker, Guardian Unlimited, Profy.Com, MediaVidea, Telegraph Blogs, Download Squad and Search Engine Roundtable
Valleywag:
MARTIN NISENHOLTZ: The prisoner of 43rd Street — What on earth is Martin Nisenholtz still doing at the New York Times? The online veteran, involved in interactive media since bringing ads to Time's Teletext service in the late 1970s, is one of the only execs at the Times with any real understanding of internet media.
Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Google, British military discuss Google Earth use in attacks — Google is talking with military agencies in Iraq after learning that terrorists attacking British bases in Basra appear to have been using aerial footage from Google Earth to pinpoint strikes, according to the United Kingdom's Daily Telegraph.
