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Jerry Yang / Yodel Anecdotal:
Where does Yahoo! head next? — There's been much curiosity and speculation about what's been happening here at Yahoo! over the past few months. Roughly 100 days into our business review, I'm ready to start sharing some of the framework for where we see the future of Yahoo!.
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Business Wire:Yahoo! Reports Third Quarter 2007 Financial Results
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Catherine Holahan / Business Week:Yahoo: Bringing Geeky Back
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Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
The RIAA Attacks Usenet — In an ideal world, people would not talk about Usenet. In an ideal world there would be no such things as copyright infringement lawsuits. Sadly, we do not live in an ideal world. — Today we simply have to talk about Usenet and we have to talk about lawsuits.
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Declan McCullagh / CNET News.com:
RIAA tries to pull plug on Usenet. Seriously. — The Recording Industry Association of America has found a new legal target for a copyright lawsuit: Usenet. — In a lawsuit filed on October 12, the RIAA says that Usenet newsgroups contain "millions of copyrighted sound recordings" in violation of federal law.
Jacqui Cheng / Infinite Loop:
Jobs confirms iTunes Plus price drop across the board — Not a full day after our initial report that Apple planned to drop the price of all its iTunes Plus tracks (as well as add a number of indie labels to the mix), many users started seeing the changes slowly trickle down from iTunes' servers.
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Josh Quittner / Fortune:
Facebook's got Google running scared — Why Google is spooked by Facebook and would dearly love to squash it, says Fortune's Josh Quittner. — (Fortune Magazine) — Google is the elephant in nearly every corner of the Internet, from search and advertising to web-based e-mail, online mapping, and home-brewed video.
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Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
The New Drama: Google vs. Facebook — First it was Yahoo vs. Google, then it became Google vs. Microsoft and now it's Google vs. Facebook. People love drama and journalists in particular seek to tell dramatic stories with uncertain outcomes. Regarding this most recent drama (Google vs. Facebook) …
Caroline McCarthy / Webware.com:
MYSPACE, SKYPE TO PARTNER FOR VOICE FUNCTION ON IM CLIENT — MySpace and Skype are set to announce on Wednesday that the eBay-owned telephony client will be providing voice chat services for the News Corp.-owned social network's instant messaging client, MySpaceIM. Financial terms of the partnership were not disclosed.
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Megan McCarthy / Valleywag:
Rumormonger: Could MySpace buy RockYou to mess with Facebook? — Shriveled-up megamogul Rupert Murdoch, the pint-sized force behind News Corp. and MySpace, is presenting the keynote at tomorrow's Web 2.0 conference. What big surprise does he have planned for the audience?
Chris Morrison / VentureBeat:
Four startups ready to change the face of email — In ten years, an internet eternity, web-based email has only made token improvements, moving from Hotmail to Gmail. Meanwhile, instant messaging and social networks have rapidly developed. — Four new startups, all of which came …
Dave Zatz / Zatz Not Funny!:
TiVo Series3 & HD External Storage Arrives! — Seems like just yesterday (or last month) TiVo began rolling out system software 9.1. And here we are today with 9.2 hitting some units... finally bringing that (official) eSATA storage goodness. I wonder if the rollout was kicked off early given 9.1 buginess …
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Silicon Valley Start-Ups Awash in Dollars, Again — Silicon Valley's math is getting fuzzy again. — Internet companies with funny names, little revenue and few customers are commanding high prices. And investors, having seemingly forgotten the pain of the first dot-com bust …
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Industry Moves: BitTorrent Appoints New CEO; Focus on Streaming P2P — Is it a coincidence that we're recently been hearing more and more about online video tech providers' change of strategies? A long due move from BitTorrent, the San Francisco-based P2P file-sharing tech firm …
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Saul Hansell / Bits:
Ubuntu Plans Eye Candy for Desktop Computers and Beyond — What would it take to get the hundreds of millions of desktop computer users to switch from Windows to Linux? — Low cost and armies of devoted techies have not been enough. So the people behind Ubuntu—a dialect of Linux— have a new idea: eye candy.
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
NextNew Networks Acquires Obama Girl Site BarelyPolitical.com — NextNew Networks, the online video micro-networks site, has bought online political satire site Barelypolitical.com. Terms were not disclosed. BarelyPolitical is best known for the online video hit "I Got a Crush on Obama" …
