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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent.org:
It's Official: Yahoo Acquires Rivals.com; Not Official But True: It Cost About $100 Million — As we were first to report in early April, Yahoo was on the verge of acquiring college sports network Rivals.com. It took a few months to complete, finally closing after months …
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Yahoo! Announces Agreement to Acquire Rivals.com, a Leading College Online Sports Site — Acquisition Expands the Editorial and Community Offerings of Yahoo! Sports — SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 21, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ — Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) …
Miguel Helft / New York Times:Yahoo Buying a High School and College Sports Network
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Two top Google engineers leave — to Benchmark Capital — Two more high-level Google engineers have left the Googleplex — this time to join well-known venture capital firm Benchmark Capital. — Bret Taylor (left) and Jim Norris (right), two of the masterminds behind Google Maps and several …
Vince Veneziani / CrunchGear:
The Pirate Bay Launches Image Hosting — Us pirates know that The Pirate Bay team has been working on several new projects, with one of them becoming a competitor to YouTube. For now though, we've been blessed with BayImg, a unique image hosting service from TPB.
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CyberOrg:
Compiz-Fusion arrives — A new merged community around Compiz project would be known as Compiz-Fusion, details of the announcement here on Compiz Mailing List. — It is not just a new name, quitely behind the scenes developers have been working hard and have come up with some stunning enhancements.
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Hiroko Tabuchi / Associated Press:
CEO: Sony is shifting to recovery mode — TOKYO - Sony Corp. Chairman Howard Stringer promised Thursday to shift the struggling electronics giant from recovery to growth and to make the PlayStation 3 a profit driver despite its bungled rollout. — But investors at the company's annual shareholder meeting …
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Kevin Kelleher / GigaOM:
Who should buy Yahoo? Handicapping 5 likely suitors — At least Yahoo can't complain this week about Google grabbing all the headlines. — While Google has been dishing out the usual morsels of news - tweaks to Google Video, YouTube and Google Office - everyone else can't stop talking about Yahoo.
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Marco / Consumerist:
Concessions: AT&T Giving Consumers The Runaround Over Secret $10 DSL — AT&T Giving Consumers The Runaround Over Secret $10 DSL — AT&T is required to offer a $10 DSL option to those consumers who are in AT&T's 22 state coverage area and who have not previously subscribed to AT&T DSL.
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Jack Shafer / Slate:
Apple Suck-Up Watch — IT'S NOT JUST A NEW KIND OF CELL PHONE, IT'S A CULTURAL WATERSHED! — iPhone — The press corps' love for all things Apple routinely swells and bursts in a dewy explosion whenever the company readies a new gizmo for sale. Like the Detroit automakers of yore …
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Simple Spark: A Catalog Of Web Applications — New York based Simple Spark aims to make finding web applications easy through an extensive catalog of online application sites. — Over 3000 web applications are tracked and categorized with screenshots, icons, feeds, reviews and concise summaries.
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Marc Andreessen / blog.pmarca.com:
The Pmarca Guide to Big Companies, part 1: Turnaround! — So you've been hired/promoted/brought out of retirement to become CEO of and turn around your NASDAQ/NYSE/LSE-listed 5,000+ employee software/semiconductor/media company that's recently been getting trounced by competitors …
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Jeffrey H. Birnbaum / Washington Post:
Learning From Microsoft's Error, Google Builds a Lobbying Engine — When it comes to lobbying, Google does not intend to repeat the mistake that its rival Microsoft made a decade ago. — Microsoft was so disdainful of the federal government back then that it had almost no presence in Washington.
Ricky Cadden / Symbian-Guru.com:
New N95 Firmware Coming — Seems everything's getting a nice little refresh lately, with the N73 and N80, and now I've gotten these screenshots showing the N95 with a fresh firmware (dated yesterday, no less!) I didn't get an official changelog (what's up with those NEVER being available?) but I did get these three screenshots.
Agence France Presse:
'Blog', 'cookie', 'wiki' top list of hated Internet words: poll — LONDON (AFP) - "Blog", "netiquette", "cookie" and "wiki" have been voted among the most irritating words spawned by the Internet, according to the results of a poll published Thursday. — EU body to expand Web search probe, write to Google
Smaran / TorrentFreak:
Mac OS X Leopard Leaked to BitTorrent — One year ago, we wrote about the first Leopard preview being leaked onto torrent sites. That release lacked the "secret features" that were to be announced sometime this year. As it goes with OS releases, Leopard was repeatedly delayed, and now …
