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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Salim Ismail To Head Yahoo Brickhouse — Yahoo Brickhouse, a new semi-autonomous business unit to foster new product development, is yet to be formally launched. They've been busy, though. Yahoo Pipes, which launched on February 7, is a Brickhouse project.
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Salim / You've Got Ismail!:
I join Yahoo.... Well, after a long hiatus from blogging, I have news. I have officially joined Yahoo!. We've been in talks for a while and it all came together recently. — Mike has the story over here. — At Yahoo, I'll be running the Brickhouse, the program spearheaded and created …
Karen / Official Google Blog:
Taking steps to further improve our privacy practices — Posted by Peter Fleischer, Privacy Counsel-Europe, and Nicole Wong, Deputy General Counsel — When you search on Google, we collect information about your search, such as the query itself, IP addresses and cookie details.
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biz.yahoo.com:
Cisco Announces Agreement to Acquire WebEx — Acquisition Furthers Cisco's Vision for Enabling Collaboration in the SMB Market — SAN JOSE, CA and SANTA CLARA, CA—(MARKET WIRE)—Mar 15, 2007 — Cisco (NasdaqGS:CSCO - News) and WebEx today announced a definitive agreement for Cisco to acquire WebEx.
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Cisco acquires WebEx for $2.9 billion — Cisco Systems, the giant networking company best known for building Internet routers, has agreed to buy WebEx, the video conference company, for a net $2.9 billion in cash. — This is significant because it brings Cisco into yet another Internet application market …
Google Talkabout:
Google Talk Gadget — We're thrilled to be launching a new way to use Google Talk today. The Google Talk Gadget is a web-based module that you can add to your Google Personalized Homepage, letting you see your friends and chat with them — all on your homepage.
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Yanko Design:
Bracelet Phone - March 8 2007 — The bracelet vibrates slightly when it receives messages, then you can easily take it off from your wrist and press the keystroke which looks like a diamond. To pick up or make a telephone call is just that easy. The whole process makes your own personality outstanding …
Wired News:
Wired Meets Assignment Zero — "We are the media." — The phrase is seemingly everywhere these days, debated in business offices by the media elite and emblazoned on T-shirts at popular events like the South by Southwest culture klatch. — Starting today, Wired is putting that claim — that challenge — to the test.
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Jay Rosen / Wired News:Citizen Journalism Wants You!
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Matbalez / web1979:
RIP Twitter (2007-2007) — I make no bones about my disdain for Twitter. I've commented far and wide about the inanity and potential danger of the tool, and even discussed some of the associated social repercussions on this blog. But I'd like to now go one step further, and predict its imminent supernova-like implosion.
David Pogue / New York Times:
One Number That Will Ring All Your Phones — If you have only one telephone with one phone number, this column won't be of any interest to you. Skip to another article, you eccentric you. — But first, count your blessings. Millions of people have more than one phone number these days …
Kate Kaye / ClickZ:
IAB Lays out Lead Quality Ranking System — Spending on online lead generation rose from $347 million to $592 million between the first half of 2005 and the same period in 2006, but that doesn't mean it was all effective. Indeed, the organization that reported those numbers …
TiVo:
TIVO LAUNCHES REMOTE SCHEDULING WITH VERIZON WIRELESS — Verizon Wireless and TiVo Allow Subscribers to Schedule TV Recordings through Verizon Wireless Phones — Alviso , Calif. and Basking Ridge , N.J. — TiVo (NASDAQ: TIVO), the creator of and a leader in television services for digital video recorders …
Steve Petersen / The Bivings Report:
16 Ways The News Media Can Use Blogs — This is not a complete list of how the news media can use blogs, but it provides several ideas for journalists who are scratching their heads about how to launch blogs that serve a purpose other than as another distribution channel for content.
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
E-Ten's Glofiish X800: everything but the QWERTY — Let's start with what E-Ten's latest Glofiish — the X800 — doesn't have: a QWERTY keyboard. Otherwise, it's packed to the, uh, gills. We're talking Windows Mobile 6, large VGA display, HSDPA/WCDMA like we heard, WiFi, quad-band GSM …
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Reuters:
Time Warner's AOL withdraws TradeDoubler bid — NEW YORK (Reuters) - AOL on Wednesday withdrew an estimated $900 million cash offer for Swedish online marketer TradeDoubler AB after failing to gain the approval of 90 percent of shareholders. — The acceptance deadline, extended once, expired on March 14.
Dave Demerjian / Wired News:
Rise of the Netflix Hackers — In less than 10 years, Netflix has grown into a $700 million DVD rental powerhouse, shipping more than 1.5 million DVDs a day to its base of 6.3 million subscribers. But the very systems that have made Netflix so successful — everything from its sophisticated …
