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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Let's Trash Yahoo During Happy Hour — Yesterday I was scheduled to appear live on the Happy Hour show on the Fox Business Channel. The show is held at the Bull and Bear bar at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York, with customers milling around and drinking. I can't believe no one has rushed the set as a prank yet.
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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 …
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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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 …
Andy Beal / Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim:
How Many Facebook Users Actually Read the Wall Street Journal? — The fact that the WSJ and Facebook have just partnered on a new initiative to let Facebook users share their favorite news stories, surely demonstrates one of the following: — Facebook is now dominated by 30+ -year old WSJ reading types.
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Joshua Karp / The Boy Genius Report:
New PSP firmware hits the streets, Skype included — Have you been waiting with baited breath for the much-anticipated PSP firmware update? The new firmware, branded as version 3.90, is now available for public consumption. The most significant improvement, of course, is the inclusion of a PSP-specific Skype client.
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Kip Kniskern / LiveSide:
Ray Ozzie at Mix08 — If you took the time to check out our feed sampler you may have already noticed the news that Ray Ozzie, Chief Software Architect at Microsoft and the successor to Bill Gates when he steps down from daily duties this July, has been added as a speaker at Mix08, to join the stage with Scott Guthrie.
Darren Murph / Engadget:
It's a done deal: Dell puts an end to all 140 US mall kiosks — Just as we feared, Dell will indeed be axing 100-percent of its US mall kiosks — 140 in total. Unsurprisingly, the official word attributes the move to Dell's shift into big box retail stores, but we're sure that's …
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Magistrate judge suggests sanctions against RIAA lawyers — The RIAA's habit of roping numerous unrelated defendants into a single “John Doe” lawsuit has drawn the attention of a federal magistrate—and not in a good way. In the case of Arista v. Does 1-27, a lawsuit targeting students …
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Rokali / The Storque:
Etsy's First Five Years — In early April of 2005, I sat in an orange chair facing an open window. It was nighttime and the lights were off. I was back in Brooklyn after a brief residence in Paris, and I was about to sketch the initial ideas that would become Etsy.
Lynn Fox / Apple:
MacBook Air Now Shipping — Apple TV Update Coming Soon — Apple® today announced that MacBook Air™, the world's thinnest notebook, is now shipping. MacBook Air measures an unprecedented 0.16-inches at its thinnest point, while its maximum height of 0.76-inches is less than the thinnest point on competing notebooks.
Brooks Barnes / New York Times:
TV Showman, Once Exiled, Returns With Video Site — LOS ANGELES — One of Big Media's most controversial executives is back after a period of quasi-forced retirement. — Stephen Chao — who was fired from a top position at the News Corporation after, in separate incidents …
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Copy a CD, owe $1.5 million under “gluttonous” PRO-IP Act — Not content with the current (and already massive) statutory damages allowed under copyright law, the RIAA is pushing to expand the provision. The issue is compilations, which now are treated as a single work.
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Gateway's new GM5664 desktop does Blu-ray and HD DVD, has kid brother that doesn't — Gateway is releasing two new desktops today, both sporting some features we've grown accustomed to, but also introducing some new hotness into the typically stale market. The new models — the GM5664 and GT5662 …
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.
