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7:15 AM ET, June 20, 2007

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Dan Sabbagh / Times of London:
News Corp explores swap of MySpace site for Yahoo! stake  —  News Corporation has discussed swapping MySpace, its internet social networking unit, with Yahoo! in return for a 25 per cent stake in the enlarged group.  —  The discussions remain tentative and could collapse after the departure …
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New York Times:
After Shake-Up, What Now for Yahoo?  —  Should Yahoo stop trying to beat Google at its own game?  Should it step up the pace and grow even larger through mergers and acquisitions?  —  As Jerry Yang takes over as Yahoo's chief executive, all eyes are on the next steps that Mr. Yang …
Discussion: Kelsey Group Blogs
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Is MySpace Worth $12 billion?
Discussion: ParisLemon
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
Report: News Corp. to trade MySpace for a stake in Yahoo?
Discussion: Breakout Performance
Karen / Official Google Blog:
More sharing  —  We're pleased to announce that we've acquired the assets of Zenter, a company that provides software for creating online slide presentations.  —  You've heard us talk a lot about using the web to improve group collaboration and information sharing.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Enter Zenter, Google Office is now complete  —  Google has snapped up yet another start-up - Zenter, which is building online presentations.  This is yet-another-exit for YCombinator, the madrassa of the Web 2.0 crowd.  In Microsoft world those are known as PowerPoints.
Nick Gonzalez / TechCrunch:
Google Acquires Zenter; Y Combinator Gets Another Payday  —  Google made another acquisition announcement today - they've bought a company called Zenter ("a company that provides software for creating online slide presentations") to help complete their upcoming Powerpoint/presentation application.
Stephen Labaton / New York Times:
Microsoft Will Alter Vista Operating System  —  Microsoft has agreed to make changes to its Windows Vista operating system in response to a complaint by Google that a feature of Vista is anticompetitive, lawyers involved in the case said on Tuesday.  —  The settlement, reached in recent days …
Discussion: TechCrunch and All about Microsoft
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Todd Bishop / Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft reaches Vista search compromise (Updated)  —  Bloomberg News and Reuters, quoting anonymous sources, are both reporting that Microsoft has agreed to change Windows Vista to respond to Google's complaint that the operating system's desktop search functionality puts competitors at a disadvantage.
Sydney Morning Herald:
Microsoft to Change Desktop Search  —  Bowing to pressure from Google Inc. and antitrust regulators, Microsoft Corp. will make it easier for Windows Vista users to pick a non-Microsoft program to search their hard drives.  —  Microsoft will let PC users and manufacturers like Dell Inc. set …
Peter Kaplan / Reuters:
Microsoft to change Vista after Google complaint
Discussion: Google Blogoscoped and Reuters
Thomas Crampton / International Herald Tribune:
Europe opens the door to in-flight phoning  —  PARIS: European regulators have cleared use of mobile phones and BlackBerry devices for passengers while flying, Airbus announced Tuesday.  —  Approval by the European Aviation Safety Agency means that, from September, passengers aboard Airbus aircraft outfitted …
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Airbus:
Airbus first to receive certification for on-board mobile phone system  —  Airbus is first to receive airworthiness certification for a cell-phone system on board an aircraft.  On 18th June 2007, the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) approved Airbus' GSM on-board system.
Discussion: Christopher Null and Engadget
Randall Bennett / wirelessinfo.com Blog:
Cell phones on a plane!: Airbus gets approval in Europe
Discussion: CrunchGear, zedgeHeadz and Gizmodo
Kat / Google LatLong:
Add your reviews to businesses on Google Maps  —  Posted by Jonathan Goldman, Software Engineer, Google Maps  —  The Cheeseboard Pizza Collective in Berkeley is one of my favorite places on the planet.  My friends and co-workers will tell you, I can't really shut up about the place.
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Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
Google Introduces User-Generated Content For Maps Without Community
Discussion: ben barren and Insider Chatter
Between the Lines:
Zoho sets out to challenge the software world  —  In mapping out the online office suite landscape, Zoho stood out as the most expansive and ambitious undertaking.  Almost every week the company makes an announcement about a new application or feature.  This week Zoho's Web conferencing application …
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Sridhar / Zoho Blogs:   Zoho "challenging the software world"?
PR Newswire:
Huge Growth Occurs In Online Video Use And It's Not All User-Generated Videos  —  LOS ANGELES, June 18 /PRNewswire/ — The results of a national online Magid Media Futures(TM) survey conducted the last week in March of 2007 have just been released, documenting the huge growth in popularity …
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Relaxer / Enemy Territory:
A WORD ABOUT IN-GAME ADS  —  Hi, I'm Neil Postlethwaite, Splash Damage's Managing Director and one of the Producers on Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars.  I'd like to talk to you today about the in-game advertising we have in ETQW.  —  For the last four years, we've put all of our effort into making Enemy Territory: QUAKE Wars.
Discussion: Kotaku, Joystiq and reBang weblog
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Wily Ferret / Inquirer:
Quake Wars to sport ads
Discussion: DigitalBattle
Erick Schonfeld / The Next Net:
Veoh TV: Turning the Web Into TV  —  Dmitry Shapiro is tired of hearing about Joost, the peer-to-peer Internet TV service launched by the founders of Skype.  "Joost is your old man's TV," sneers Shapiro, the CEO of competing Web video service Veoh.  By that, he means that Joost is merely replicating …
Discussion: TechCrunch
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Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:   Veoh Launching New Online TV Service; Takes Streams From Content …
Kate Holton / Reuters:
Yahoo in global expansion of mobile phone services  —  LONDON (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc. said on Tuesday it would introduce later this week a faster, enhanced version of its Internet services for U.S. mobile phone users, while expanding into key markets in Asia, Canada and Europe.
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Agence France Presse:
SKorean firm sells 3G Google phones in Europe
Discussion: mocoNews.net
Gregg Goldstein / Hollywood Reporter:
'Sicko' leaks have studios crying foul  —  Clips uploaded to YouTube in 14 chunks  —  NEW YORK — YouTube has removed clips of Michael Moore's U.S. health-care expose "Sicko" that appeared on the site during the weekend, two weeks before the film's June 29 opening.
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Guardian:
Moore lays into Sicko YouTube stunt
Discussion: NewTeeVee, Epicenter and New York Times
Noheat:
Nintendo and Apple to partner on games for iPhone  —  If you can't beat them join them.  With the iPhone days away from being launched Nintendo has apparently begun working with Apple, licensing a limited amount of content for the new phone.  It was rumored a while back that Nintendo …
Metroxing / TWO A DAY:
ZDNet Really, Really, Really Hates Apple & the iPhone  —  I understand that journalists want to be cynical and to claim "objectivity."  But when 11 bloggers at ZDNET write over 50+ negative blog posts in a little over a week for a product NOT even out yet?  What is that?  Proof they are smarter than us? ...
 
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Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
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Reuters:
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
What kind of man gets two Zune tattoos?
Discussion: Gizmodo
Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Travelers Deserve Protection from Baseless Laptop Searches
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
Exchange Exchange … TUESDAY, 19 JUNE 2007 … MONDAY, 18 JUNE 2007
François Bancilhon / Mandriva Blog:
We will not go to Canossa  —  Novell, Xandros and Linspire …
Discussion: Jeremy's Blog and digg
BBC:
Censors ban 'brutal' video game
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
AMD considering getting out of fabrication business