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Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Yahoo to Cut 1,000 Jobs, and Warns on Growth — SAN FRANCISCO — After announcing a sharp drop in fourth-quarter profits Tuesday, Yahoo issued a disappointing outlook for this year, suggesting that investors would have to wait until 2009 for a turnaround. — Yahoo also said that as part …
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Robert Hof / Business Week:
Yahoo's Yodel Turns Into a Whimper — Layoffs and a refocusing effort can only do so much. CEO Jerry Yang needs to find exciting new products or services if he hopes to make Yahoo sing again — Getty Images — At the Consumer Electronics Show a few weeks ago, Yahoo! (YHOO) …
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Seth Sutel / Associated Press:
WSJ's Web site adds Facebook function — NEW YORK - The Wall Street Journal has just accepted Facebook's request to be online friends. — Hoping to tap into the growing buzz of online social networks, the Journal is adding a feature to its Web site that will allow readers to see which Journal stories …
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Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
FCC to call for more ads about digital-TV transition — Advertisements educating people about the switch in February 2009 from analog-TV to digital-TV signals could soon be airing more often, according to a story in The Wall Street Journal. — The Federal Communications Commission …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
SproutBuilder: You've Got to See This Drag and Drop Widget Maker — SproutBuilder is going to explode the world of widgets on the web. This is far and away my favorite product I've seen at DEMO, not just this year but ever in the three years I've attended.
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Monica Chen / DigiTimes:
Asustek announces Eee family product lines — With Eee PC becoming a focus of the PC market, Asustek Computer has announced it is planning to launch a family of Eee products including: E-DT (desktop PC), E-TV and E-Monitor. All the products while have low-cost as their major selling point …
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Andrew Yoon / PSP Fanboy:
Firmware 3.90 now available on Network Update — Ready for Skype? Here it is! Get it by accessing Network Update on your PSP. Here are the official details: — Support for PLAYSTATION Network titles has been expanded. — Skype has been added as a feature under Network.
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Adam Ostrow / Mashable!:
Breaking: MySpace Developer Platform Launching on February 5th — MySpace has just announced that they will be launching their developer platform on February 5th. You can pre-register now by going to http://developer.myspace.com (requires login). — Earlier this evening, I spoke with Amit Kapur …
Nicholas Carr / Financial Times:
A revolution is taking shape — When the founder of Microsoft retires this year, it will not only mark the close of a remarkable business career. It will signal the end of an era in computing. — “The next sea change is upon us." Those words appeared in an extraordinary memorandum …
Dan Farber / Between the Lines:
Six Apart adds activity streams to its blog platform — In the new age of open social networks, Six Apart is doing its part to create a hub that embraces the world of feeds outside its own servers. The company is shipping Action Streams, a free plug-in for Movable Type 4.1 that lets users aggregate …
Joe Wilcox / Microsoft Watch:
What's Google Doing on Vista (RED)? … Last week, Microsoft and Dell unveiled three (PRODUCT) RED, or (RED), computers. When people buy one of these computers, the companies donate money to The Global Fund. — Little problem for Microsoft: As part of a previous $1 billion bribe marketing agreement …
Larry Dignan / Zero Day:
Mozilla ups unpatched Firefox flaw to ‘high severity’; Preps fix — Mozilla has given a proof of concept Firefox vulnerability a “high severity” rating because an attacker can collect session information such as cookies and history, according to Mozilla security chief Window Snyder.
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
DoJ fits Microsoft for a 2-year oversight leash — In a ruling issued yesterday, a federal judge extended the duration of sanctions imposed on Microsoft by a 2002 consent decree agreement. The sanctions were initially scheduled to expire last month, but have been extended until November 2009.
