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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 …
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:Report: News Corp. to trade MySpace for a stake in Yahoo?
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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.
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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 …
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Peter Kaplan / Reuters:
Microsoft to change Vista after Google complaint — Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O: Quote, Profile, Research) has agreed to modify its Windows Vista operating system in response to a complaint that its computer search function put Google Inc. (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile, Research) …
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.
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 …
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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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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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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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.
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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 …
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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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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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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 …
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? ...
Aaron Rutkoff / Wall Street Journal:
Strategy Game Pits Players Against Desktop Invasion — For every online hit like Second Life, there are hundreds of smaller, Web-based games that make a brief splash and fade into the digital background. "Desktop Tower Defense," a no-budget game made by a first-time designer, has kept its audience hooked.
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