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6:45 PM ET, April 18, 2007

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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Why eBay wants Stumbleupon  —  Updated: TechCrunch just reported that StumbleUpon is in talks to being acquired with AOL, Google and eBay as possible suitors.  Though we have not been able to chat with folks from StumbleUpon, the social bookmarking discovery service, we have heard that eBay is the likely winner of the derby.
Discussion: Mashable!
Karen / Official Google Blog:
Searching without a query  —  You already know that search is at the core of everything we do: we want to deliver useful and relevant information every time you do a search.  But what about when you don't have a query in mind, or if you just don't feel like typing in a query?
Chris Sherman / Search Engine Land:
Google Offers "Queryless Search" & Personalized Recommendations  —  Google is rolling out two features today that subtly but meaningfully enhance the level of personalization offered to anyone with a Google account.  And while they're tied to your search behavior, they don't directly alter …
Discussion: Screenwerk and SearchViews
CNNMoney.com:
BlackBerry service back  —  Service problems disrupted e-mail traffic but the company says most service is restored.  —  NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — A system failure knocked out BlackBerry service to millions of customers late Tuesday but the company said Wednesday morning that service for "most customers" was restored.
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Harry McCracken / PC World: Techlog:   BlackBerry Blackout
WNBC:
BlackBerry Woes Getting Better
Yahoo! Tech Advisors:
BlackBerry Goes Down, BlackBerry Goes Up
Discussion: ABCNEWS
Jordan Robertson / Associated Press:
No Penalty for Tax Filers Hit by Glitch  —  SAN JOSE, Calif. — Taxpayers who couldn't electronically file 11th-hour returns using Intuit Inc.'s TurboTax, ProSeries and other software won't be penalized for delays caused by the company's overtaxed servers, the IRS said Wednesday.
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Nick / Rough Type:
Intuit's cloudburst frustrates customers
Discussion: Smalltalk Tidbits …
Jessica Dickler / CNNMoney.com:
Late filers swamp TurboTax
Discussion: Techdirt and Consumerist
support.turbotax.intuit.com:
Electronic Filing Delays and Status
DigiTimes:
HTC to ship Google handsets by year-end  —  High Tech Computer (HTC) is now manufacturing Google handsets with shipments officially commencing at the end of 2007, according to handset component makers.  The makers also said the shipment volume will reach as high as one million units.
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Eric Case / Official Google Docs & Spreadsheets Blog:
How to make a pie  —  Posted by: Yoah Bar-David, Software Engineer, Google Tel-Aviv  —  I have a friend who is a great chef and owns a restaurant.  A while ago he called and asked me in his mild French accent "how to make a pie."  I can cook, and I do it quite often.
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Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Spreadsheets Adds Charts
Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Yahoo's Earnings Are Down 11 Percent  —  Yahoo's top executives have been focused this year on an effort nicknamed Panama, after the vast canal project undertaken in the face of adversity.  It is a major overhaul of the company's search advertising system, intended to increase revenue and close …
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Alex Pham / Los Angeles Times:
Yahoo's quarterly earnings fall 11%
Alan Sipress / Washington Post:
Patently at Odds  —  Drug and Tech Sectors Battle With Reform High on Agenda  —  Two of the country's leading industries, computer technology and drug manufacturing, are battling over an effort by Congress to overhaul the way inventors profit from ideas, with executives on both sides saying billions of dollars are at stake.
Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
Exclusive: Facebook May Launch Local Classifieds  —  Facebook is considering the launch of a local classifieds service, a source told Mashable.  Under the proposed system, it would be free to list items in your own network, and cost a few dollars to post to each additional network.
Jon Udell:
Talking to everyone: the framing of science and technology … Very true.  What's more, I believe this tribe is, over time, growing farther away from the rest of the world.  That's happening for an interesting and important reason, which is that the tools we are building and using …
David Filo / Yodel Anecdotal:
Don't even leave a footprint  —  Jerry Yang and I just announced at our quarterly employee all-hands that Yahoo! has committed to going carbon neutral this year.  Essentially, that means we're going to invest in greenhouse gas reduction projects around the world to neutralize Yahoo!'s impact on the environment.
Richard MacManus / Read/WriteWeb:
Bungee Labs - Next Generation Web Development Platform  —  Yesterday in the Web 2.0 Expo booths, I checked out Bungee Labs - an ambitious new on-demand, web-based development environment that enables developers to build and deploy web apps that utilize the large variety of APIs and web services out on the Internet.
Greg Sandoval / CNET News.com:
Sling, Apple discuss streaming music to iPhone  —  LAS VEGAS—Sling Media CEO Blake Krikorian said on Tuesday that he has spoken to Apple about his company's ambition to stream iTunes music and video to the upcoming iPhone.  It's unclear, however, what Apple thinks of the plan.
The Doc Searls Weblog:
No stay of execution for Internet radio  —  Sheila Lennon treats us to one of the most linkful and comprehensive explorations of Internet radio's scheduled May 15 execution by the Vogons at the Copyright Royalty Board, which decided on Tuesday to deny motions by Internet radio suppliers to let their industry live.
 
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Reuters:
EBay soars on outlook, profit
Discussion: Business 2.0 Beta
Business Wire:
eBay Inc. Announces First Quarter 2007 Financial Results
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Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Google Testing Grouping Search Results By Category
Eric Savitz / BARRONS.com:
IBM: Goldman, Credit Suisse Downgrade, Citing U.S. Tech Spending Slowdown
Paul R. La Monica / CNNMoney.com:
MSN: The Dr Pepper of Search
Discussion: ResourceShelf
BBC:
BBC to open up archive for trial
Michael Gartenberg:
You Don't Get It!  —  One of the classic comments a product manager …
Motorola:
Motorola Announces First-Quarter Sales and Earnings
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Paul McDougall / InformationWeek:
Oracle, SAP, Others Sued Over Disc-To-Web Hyperlink Technology
Discussion: Techdirt and Download Squad
Newlaunches.com:
Only 244 copies of Genuine Windows Vista sold in China
Andrew Orlowski / The Register:
The VoIP wars: air supply is an optional feature
BBC:
Web counting tools 'need change'
Discussion: Liberate Media
Dion Almaer / Ajaxian:
Google announces new AJAX Feed API
SecurityFocus:
Notes On Vista Forensics, Part One
Dan Gillmor / Center for Citizen Media:
Virginia Tech: How Media Are Evolving