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8:55 AM ET, February 4, 2008

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New York Times:
Google Works to Torpedo Microsoft Bid for Yahoo  —  Standing between a marriage of Microsoft and Yahoo may be the technology behemoth that has continually outsmarted them: Google.  —  In an unusually aggressive effort to prevent Microsoft from moving forward with its $44.6 billion hostile bid for Yahoo …
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Official Google Blog:
Yahoo! and the future of the Internet  —  The openness of the Internet is what made Google — and Yahoo! — possible.  A good idea that users find useful spreads quickly.  Businesses can be created around the idea.  Users benefit from constant innovation.  It's what makes the Internet such an exciting place.
Mark Cuban / Blog Maverick:
Why Yahoo should say Yes to MicroSoft  —  One thing about Jerry Yang that I always have admired is that he cares.  He cares about his employees.  He cares about his products.  He cares about his shareholders.  Most of all he cares about building a world class company that can be great at what it does.
Dave / PassingNotes.com:   Dr MicroHoo, or how I stopped worrying and learned to love the bomb
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
No Super Bowl For Yahoo: Top Brass Weigh Their Limited Options
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Microsoft Writes Yahoo: BoomTown Decodes the Letter, So You Don't Have To!
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider
Matt Asay / The Open Road:   Microsoft is “committed to openness,” snickers its general counsel
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
Yahoo axes music subscription service, strikes deal with Rhapsody  —  It's been a tumultuous few days for Yahoo—you know, with that takeover bid from Microsoft—but the company continues to shake things up internally, too.  On Monday, the company announced that it will discontinue …
Discussion: Mashable!
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Chris Williams / The Register:
Yahoo! tunes! out! of! music! subscription!  —  Get on your feet...  Yahoo! is taking some time out from worrying about what it's like to be a Microsoft tentacle to offload its damp squib music subscription service.  —  Rhapsody, the near-identical subscription service joint-owned …
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Yahoo Sells Premium Music Service To RhapsodyAmerica; Buys FoxyTunes  —  Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), which has officially closed down its premium online music service Yahoo Unlimited (we reported on it first here), has sold the service to RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) and MTV JV company Rhapsody America …
Reuters:
Yahoo says Rhapsody will handle its digital music
Discussion: Seeking Alpha and Coolfer
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
The Industry Standard 2.0: Their Analysis, Your Predictions  —  The Industry Standard—the once high-flying, and then hardest-falling, magazine of the dotcom era—is relaunching today in a public beta, nearly seven years after the original media outlet went bankrupt.
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BBC:
Chips pass two billion milestone  —  The first chip to pack more than two billion transistors has been launched by silicon giant Intel.  —  The quad-core chip, known as Tukwila, is designed for high-end servers rather than personal computers.  —  It operates at speeds of up to 2Ghz, the equivalent of a standard PC chip.
Discussion: Gizmodo
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Intel launching Tukwila: world's first 2 billion transistor chip
Discussion: George Ou, ZDNet.com.au and WinBeta
BBC:
Overhaul of net addresses begins  —  The first big steps on the road to overhauling the net's core addressing system have been taken.  —  On Monday the master address books for the net are being updated to include records prepared in a new format known as IP version 6.
Discussion: Technology Questions
Press Association:
Ships did not cut internet cable  —  No ships were present when two marine cables carrying much of the Middle East's internet traffic were severed, Egypt's Ministry of Communications has said, contrary to earlier speculation about the causes of the cut.  —  The ministry had originally stated …
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Jesse Robbins / O'Reilly Radar:
Cable cuts, conspiracies, and lolsubs...
Discussion: Data Center Knowledge
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Amid Yahoo Turmoil, AOL Makes An Acquisition  —  On Monday AOL will announce the acquisition of San Diego-based Goowy, a startup founded in late 2004 and which launched, incidentally, in my living room in late 2006 (we had a TechCrunch party where Goowy, Meebo, Sphere and other startups launched).
Glofiish:
E-TEN unveils new consumer-focused products at Mobile World Congress 2008  —  E-TEN Information Systems has unveiled the Glofiish M810 and V900, the first in a new range of Pocket PC Phones focusing on portable entertainment and go-anywhere communications tailored for the web savvy consumer market.
Discussion: Engadget and Pocket PC Thoughts
Noam Cohen / New York Times:
Is Obama a Mac and Clinton a PC?  —  STYLES make fights — or so goes the boxing cliché.  In 2008, they make presidential campaigns, too.  —  This is especially true for the two remaining Democrats, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.  Reporters covering the candidates have already resorted …
Discussion: Cult of Mac, TechCrunch and Mashable!
Lance Davis / Reg Developer:
Google Android - a sneak preview  —  What's in it for developers?  —  Google invited developers to its London office for one of three workshops - the others being in Munich and Tel Aviv to spread the word and teach developers how to write for their new OS.
 
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Android SDK to get “significant updates,” $10M Challenge delayed
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Charles Hudson / Charles Hudson's Weblog:
Thoughts on the Prospect of a Yahoo + Microsoft Merger
Valeria Maltoni / Conversation Agent:
The Future of We Media  —  Many of us are joining the ranks …
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Microsoft, Yahoo! and the Effect on OpenID
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Microsoft Adds Research Lab in East as Others Cut Back
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Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
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Update your Twitter, Facebook and other status messages simultaneously
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Patrick Frater / Variety:
Tencent Music reports Q4 revenue down 7% YoY to $971M and a $198M profit; in 2023, paying subscribers rose 21% YoY to 107M and net profit rose 36% YoY to $735M

 
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