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9:30 AM ET, February 13, 2008

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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Exec Bails: Bradley Horowitz Leaves For Google  —  Bradley Horowitz, head of Yahoo's Advanced Technology Division (and mentioned in a post earlier today), has accepted a position with Google, we've confirmed via a source at Yahoo.  We have a message into Bradley for a comment, but have not yet heard back.
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Getting Fired At Yahoo: A Twitter Log  —  Yahoo's Ryan Kuder was canned today.  A drag for him, but a gift for the rest of us—because he Twittered it.  A new form of literature is in the making...  Y! layoffs today, I'm “impacted”.  I'm heading into work to pack my desk …
Susan Mernit / Susan Mernit's Blog:
Just got laid off at Yahoo  —  Well, the law of continuous revolution just gave me a good shove.  —  Today is my last day at Yahoo and the start of something new.  —  What?  No idea, yet.  —  I'm definitely interested in hearing about both short term and longer term consulting opportunities …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Brickhouse Head Leaves Yahoo  —  Salim Ismail, who has led Yahoo Brickhouse since since March 2007, left the company today as part of broader layoffs at Yahoo.  Layoff packages were being offered, he said, and he left voluntarily.  —  Brickhouse is based in San Francisco and shares office space …
Vacuum:   Yahoo Alumni Association
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo And News Corp. Continue Marathon Discussions; Possible Bid To Counter Microsoft  —  At the start of the Microsoft/Yahoo saga we reported that News Corp. was scrambling to put together a bid to compete with Microsoft, but backed down because they were unable to find outside funding …
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Beltzner / Mozilla Developer News:
Firefox 3 Beta 3 now available for download  —  Please note: We do not recommend that anyone other than developers and testers download the Firefox 3 Beta 3 milestone release.  It is intended for testing purposes only.  —  Firefox 3 Beta 3 is now available for download.
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Michael Dell Pays $150M For His Bro's Startup  —  At a time when Michael Dell has regained control over the helm at the firm he has founded, it seems dicey for him to close a deal that smells of nepotism.  But Dell seems to taunt the critics with this one.  —  Dell says it will pay $155M …
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Ian Austen / New York Times:
Flawed Software Upgrade Caused BlackBerry Malfunction  —  OTTAWA — As was the case with last year's BlackBerry service failure, Research In Motion blamed a flawed software upgrade for shutting down wireless e-mail messages to millions of its North American subscribers for about three hours on Monday.
Discussion: Engadget and Team Think
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Marguerite Reardon / CNET News.com:
RIM's CEO downplays BlackBerry outage
Agence France Presse:
System upgrade caused Blackberry blackout: RIM
Discussion: PalmAddicts
AppleInsider:
Apple releases Apple TV “Take 2” software update  —  Apple on Tuesday quietly released its much-anticipated Apple TV “Take 2” software update, which introduces a brand new on-sreen interface and allows users to rent high definition movies directly from their widescreen TVs.
Discussion: Apple 2.0 and Digg
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Christopher Breen / Macworld:
Hands on with Apple TV, Take Two
Discussion: CrunchGear and MacUser
Wall Street Journal:
Google Push for Yahoo Tie-Up Wanes  —  Google's enthusiasm has waned in recent days for a potential advertising tie-up that could help Yahoo try to thwart Microsoft's unsolicited offer for Yahoo.
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Wall Street Journal:
Google Cools on Ad Tie-Up
Discussion: MediaFile and 24/7 Wall St.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Bebo: $1 billion Acquisition “Definitely Happened” Says Source  —  Following up to our post last week talking about a possible acquisition of social network site Bebo: A high level source has told us that Bebo has been in discussions via their investment bank, Allen & Co. …
Daily Mail:
Man arrested at gunpoint after police mistake his MP3 player for a gun  —  Armed police held an innocent mechanic at gunpoint when they mistook his MP3 player for a pistol.  —  Darren Nixon, 28, was arrested and put in police cell for simply listening to music on his way home from work.
Maria Aspan / New York Times:
Quitting Facebook Gets Easier  —  Aiming to address the privacy concerns of disenchanted users, Facebook.com said on Tuesday that it was trying to make it easier for people to delete their accounts permanently from the social networking site.  —  Until now, Facebook has offered only a deactivation option …
Janet Whitman / FPL Fpindex:
Online obits next move for Monster.com entrepreneur  —  NEW YORK — Jeff Taylor, the Internet entrepreneur who brought job classifieds to the Web by launching Monster.com, sees obituaries as the next frontier.  —  Looking to capture that potential, Mr. Taylor is introducing Tributes.com …
Discussion: TechCrunch, Xconomy and paidContent.org
Bill Ray / The Register:
Microsoft ready to play with PlayReady  —  All your media are etc....  Mobile World Congress Microsoft is proudly showing off its PlayReady technology at MWC, but woe betide anyone who describes it as a DRM platform.  —  PlayRead was announced at last year's conference, but this time it's demonstrable.
 
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Carleen Hawn / GigaOM:
SkyGrid Finds Gold In The Wisdom Of The Webs
John / The Adventures of PPC Hero:
Google Updates AdWords Display URL Policy
Paul Kane / Washington Post:
Senate Authorizes Broad Expansion Of Surveillance Act
Nathan Buggia / Live Search Webmaster Center Blog:
Announcing Crawler Improvements for Live Search
Richard MacManus / ReadWriteWeb:
Comment of the Day: OpenSocial is a “Social Cloud” For Developers, Not Users
Kevin J. O'Brien / New York Times:
Nokia Dominates, but Rivals Insist That Could Change
Autopia / Wired:
Wipers, Stereo Raise Price of Chevrolet Volt by $5,000
Dean Takahashi / Mercury News:
Gaming Alliance stumps for PC
Discussion: Kotaku, Blue's News and WinBeta
 Earlier Items: 
InfoWorld:
T-Mobile dumps Google for Yahoo
Discussion: Reuters
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
The Grammy In Mathematics... Or Copyright Infringement?
Dylan Tweney / Wired News:
15th Anniversary: Gawker's Nick Denton on the State of Blogdom
Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
New business models for news
Discussion: The Buzz Bin
Nilay Patel / Engadget:
T-Mobile HotSpot users will get five years of Starbucks WiFi access …
Discussion: SMS Text News and Gadgetell
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Yahoo's oneConnect: One Mobile App to Rule Them All
Skrentablog:
Amazon is the Google of buying stuff