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Kevin Heisler / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Yahoo Mails Letter to Shareholders: Full Text — Yahoo mailed a letter to shareholders outlining the reasons the Board believes Microsoft's proposal significantly undervalues Yahoo and isn't in the best interests of Yahoo stockholders. — In the missive Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang emphasizes its strong brand …
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Yahoo! Mails Letter to Stockholders — Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, today announced that it has sent a letter to its stockholders, outlining the reasons the Board believes that Microsoft's proposal significantly undervalues Yahoo! and is not in the best interests of Yahoo! stockholders.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:Yahoo Makes Its Case in Letter to Shareholders
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Michelle Slatalla / New York Times:
If You Can't Let Go, Twitter — SOMETIMES, you just have to trust your relatives. You have to be willing to let them leave the house unchallenged. Suspend disbelief and let them take the car. — That's what I tell my three daughters, anyway. But it never works out like that.
Loïc Le Meur / Loic Le Meur Blog:
How I started Seesmic and raised $6 million — I closed the initial funding of Seesmic in September 2007. The main investment came from Atomico's Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis (they invested $5.5 million on the $6 million). Talking to bloggers all the time, I have not been very good at keeping …
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AT&T Adds to HSUPA Device Lineup With Two New LaptopConnect Cards From Option — Option GT Ultra and Option GT Ultra Express Available for Use on AT&T's 3G — AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) announced today two new LaptopConnect cards from Option, the GT Ultra and GT Ultra Express.
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Microsoft to Replace Head of Mobile Group — Microsoft plans to announce the replacement of the head of its mobile phone group as part of a broader executive reshuffling, people familiar with the matter said.
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Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Microsoft's executive shuffle expected Thursday — I'll say it again. Microsoft has a lot to learn when it comes to celebrating Valentine's Day. — A long-anticipated Microsoft executive shuffle will be formally announced on Thursday, according to sources familiar with the company's plans.
Comcast:
Comcast Reports 2007 Results and Provides Outlook for 2008 — Financial Tables — 2007 Consolidated Revenue increased 24% — 2007 Consolidated Operating Income increased 21% — 2007 Consolidated Operating Cash Flow increased 25% — 2007 EPS of $0.83; Adjusted EPS of $0.74 increased 23%
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
Comcast: Q4 Tops Ests; Sets Div; Vows $7B Buyback; Eliminates Founder's Salary; No Bid For YHOO, Sprint — Quite an eventful - and promising - morning for Comcast (CMCSA) shareholders. — Comcast (CMCSA) reported fourth quarter revenue of $8.01 billion, with EPS of 20 cents, beating the Street at $7.9 billion and 17 cents.
Robin Goad / Hitwise Intelligence:
What happens if your site gets ‘blacklisted’ by Google? — What is the impact on a website of being ‘blacklisted’ by Google? Recently the insurance comparison website GoCompare.com faced precisely this dilemma after the search engine picked up on irregular inbound links to its site, causing it to plummet down the rankings.
Nokia:
You make the game with Yamake on N-Gage — Espoo, Finland - Yamake for N-Gage, by Nokia Games Publishing, makes it possible for players to create their own games from a range of mini games by adding content, then playing and sharing them with friends and the wider Yamake community.
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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:Nokia launches user created “Yamake” games on N-Gage — bye bye Gizmondo v2
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Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
PageOnce to Put All Your Online Accounts in One Place — Personal content aggregators are nothing new. We recently covered the latest of many services that consolidate your social networking activity into one place. But PageOnce, a company that was on this year's Israel Web Tour …
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Citysearch And AOL Announce Reciprocal Content And Ad Distribution Deal — Citysearch has announced a deal with AOL that provides Citysearch reviews and content (e.g., video) and place local Citysearch advertisers on AOL local properties. The two firms will share revenue from clicks or leads generated from AOL distribution.
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Ian / IanSchafer.com:
So What Happened At YouTube's Videocracy Event? — YouTube trotted out all their heavy hitters for their Videocracy event in NYC last night. — Here are some highlights of what they said: — For Content Partners/Creators — Get ready for active sharing. — Get ready for upgraded video editing tools.
Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
Another big change for viral app marketing on Facebook: Invitation limits now dynamic — Following last week's change to notification limits from a fixed to a fluctuating limit based on user spamminess ratings, Facebook announced tonight that invitations, a mainstay of viral growth for Facebook apps, will soon be following suit.
Stan Schroeder / Mashable!:
Valentine's Day Logos Around The Web — Valentine's day is one of those dates that most people undermine as completely meaningless, and yet it's more present everywhere around us than some other “important” holidays. When it comes to logos of web sites, you just know they're all gonna have a Valentine-customized one today.
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