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Times of London:
Yahoo! set to revive merger talks with AOL after rejecting hostile takeover — Yahoo! is seeking to restart merger talks with AOL as a means of defending itself against the $45 billion (£23 billion) hostile bid approach from Microsoft, The Times has learnt.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Wait. Yahoo and AOL? I Was Looking Forward To Something More...Fierce. — I was so damned excited yesterday to see Yahoo preparing to put up a Mel Gibson style Braveheart fight against Microsoft, Google and anyone else that tried to screw with their freedom.
Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times:Yahoo Bidder Wants a More Aggressive Microsoft
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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
The Nokia N96 redefines “high-end” — Rumored for a few weeks now as the N95's successor in waiting, the mighty N96 dual slider has gone all official on us at Mobile World Congress today. Though the phone it replaces is still a beast by any measure, the N96 pushes the envelope further …
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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
The Nokia N78, in European and North American flavors — The revamped Nseries lineup is coming fast and furious since the launch of the N81 and N82 late last year, and the latest candybar to get the updated industrial design is the N78, a midrange handset (by Nseries standards, anyway) …
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Chris Ziegler / Engadget:
Nokia's 6210 Navigator, 6220 classic, and Maps 2.0 — No question about it, the N78 and the N96 are the heavies in Nokia's Mobile World Congress announcements, but there are a couple gems on the lower end, too — if you can really call a navigation-ready handset and a 5 megapixel smartphone “lower end.”
Sony Ericsson:
Sony Ericsson takes touchscreen mainstream with two phones set to simplify your life — The new G700 and G900 phones are designed to give back time. They place personal organiser features and easy finger-touch control within familiar form factors. — Sony Ericsson today launched …
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Maria Aspan / New York Times:
How Sticky Is Membership on Facebook? Just Try Breaking Free — Are you a member of Facebook.com? You may have a lifetime contract. — Some users have discovered that it is nearly impossible to remove themselves entirely from Facebook, setting off a fresh round of concern over the popular social network's use of personal data.
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org:
Dave Morgan, AOL's EVP-Global Advertising Strategy, Leaving For Startup World Again — Dave Morgan, the founder of online advertising firms RealMedia (which later became 24/7RealMedia and sold to WPP for $649 million) and Tacoda, is leaving AOL (NYSE: TWX) exactly three months …
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Brian Stelter / New York Times:
Putting Candidates Under the Videoscope — One late night last November, Mitt Romney, campaigning in Greenville, S.C., was approached by three young women in bright matching outfits looking for a hug. Mr. Romney, thinking they were cheerleaders from nearby Clemson University, obliged.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Nuconomy Emerges To Provide Next Generation Site Analytics — Tel Aviv/San Francisco based Nuconomy (part of the recent Israeli Web Tour in California) is aiming to give publishers a lot more information about what's happening on their sites than Google Analytics currently offers.
Liz Gannes / NewTeeVee:
Yahoo Tech Ticker Launches Monday — Yahoo's new web video show, Tech Ticker, starts on Monday. The program, which will focus on tech stocks, is to release four to eight videos each day. Earlier reports had said the show would be live, but it will be entirely on demand, according to Yahoo spokesperson Brian Nelson.
Scott Karp / Publishing 2.0:
The Pace of Innovation in Journalism — How long does it take to launch an innovative new feature on a newspaper site? About 48 hours — that's the standard set by innovative editors like Jack Lail at Knoxnews.com, Tom Meagher at Herald News, and Mark Briggs at Thenewstribune.com.
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Motoko Rich / New York Times:
HarperCollins Will Post Free Books on the Web — In an attempt to increase book sales, HarperCollins Publishers will begin offering free electronic editions of some of its books on its Web site, including a novel by Paulo Coelho and a cookbook by the Food Network star Robert Irvine.
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Dan Primack / PE HUB:
SeatWave Prints $25 Million Ticket — Online ticket resale has generated big VC returns in the U.S., with eBay buying StubHub for $310 million and TicketMaster buying TicketsNow for around $295 million. Now the competition has spread to Europe. The latest example is SeatWave Ltd. …
