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Yahoo! Investor Presentation Details Financial Plan — Management Reaffirms First Quarter and Full Year 2008 Outlook — Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) today filed an investor presentation that details the Company's three-year financial plan and strategic initiatives which are expected …
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Yahoo: Business is fine and we're worth more; Do you buy it? — Yahoo said Tuesday that its first quarter results are on target with the company's guidance and provided a bullish outlook through 2010. — In a statement (Techmeme), Yahoo said that it expects to double operating cash flow …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:Yahoo's Three-Year Plan: Grow Revenues 73 Percent By Focusing …
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Nathania Johnson / Search Engine Watch Blog:Yahoo Shows Microsoft, Wall Street What Its Really Worth
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Apple:
About the Safari 3.1 Update — Installation — To update to Safari 3.1, use Apple Software Update or a standalone installer. You only need to use one of these methods to update your computer. — Software Update — Software Update will automatically check for the latest Apple software using the Internet.
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Bill Evans / Apple:
Apple Releases Safari 3.1 — The World's Fastest Browser Now on Mac and Windows — Apple® today introduced Safari™ 3.1, the world's fastest web browser for Mac® and Windows PCs. Safari loads web pages 1.9 times faster than IE 7 and 1.7 times faster than Firefox 2.
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Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Improved privacy controls, instant messaging on the way at Facebook — CNET News.com's Dan Farber co-wrote this report. — Social network Facebook will roll out more extensive privacy controls Tuesday night or Wednesday morning, as well as an instant-messaging service soon after …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Facebook To Launch New Privacy Controls; Confirms Chat Is Coming — Facebook announced new privacy controls at a press event at their downtown Palo Alto headquarters today, and also demoed their new chat application - called Facebook Chat - that has been rumored since last week.
Nick White / Windows Vista Team Blog:
Windows Vista SP1 Released to Windows Update — Today, you can now download Windows Vista SP1 via Windows Update. For those of you eager to receive the benefits of Windows Vista SP1 - you can now do so! We've seen quite a bit of questions in our comments so we want to communicate …
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Emil Protalinski / Ars Technica:Microsoft hits milestone with long-awaited Vista SP1 release
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Microsoft:
Microsoft and Intel Launch Parallel Computing Research Centers to Accelerate Benefits to Consumers, Businesses — Center locations will be at UC Berkeley and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. — REDMOND, Wash., and SANTA CLARA, Calif. — March.
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Tom Abate / San Francisco Chronicle:
Fear and doubt spread in Silicon Valley — The investment banking crisis on Wall Street is already drying up the flow of capital to Silicon Valley, and while money should find new ways to reach local startups, a cash drought of unknown duration and severity is under way.
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Martin LaMonica / CNET News.com:
Is venture capital's love affair with Web 2.0 over? — Silicon Valley remains the hotbed of Web 2.0 activity, but the hipness of start-ups with goofy names is starting to cool in the face of economic reality. — Dow Jones VentureSource on Tuesday released numbers of venture capital activity …
Paul Sweeting / Digital Media Wire:
Has Google Topper Eric Schmidt Lost His Mind? — Or is the Google CEO crazy like a fox? He certainly has been talking some crazy smack lately about Microsoft's proposed acquisition of Yahoo, as in this recent exchange in Portfolio in which me suggests that a Microsoft/Yahoo combo might “break the Internet”:
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Charlie Rose Face Plants To Save His MacBook Air — Yeah, you read that headline right. Apple couldn't pay for better press than this. — Viewers of the Charlie Rose show tonight were stunned to see the normally composed Rose looking like he'd just been in a bar fight.
Michael Kanellos / CNET News.com:
Analyst: Returns, technical problems high with flash-based notebooks — Notebooks with flash-based hard drives cost a lot and, according to managing partner Avi Cohen at Avian Securities, they don't work very well either. — A large computer manufacturer is getting around 20 percent …
Kate Greene / Technology Review:
Long-Distance Wi-Fi — Intel has found a way to stretch a Wi-Fi signal from one antenna to another located more than 60 miles away. — Intel has announced plans to sell a specialized Wi-Fi platform later this year that can send data from a city to outlying rural areas tens of miles away …
Arn / MacRumors:
Hints at iPod Touch Price Drop? — Apple's Dutch iTunes store is running an ad that shows the iPod touch, starting at only 199 euro. This represents a 80 euro difference from the official price of the iPod touch which starts at 279 euro. Yooph.nl speculates that this could be a premature leak akin …
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Ex-Google Employee on Scaling an Organization — Fortune interviewed Bret Taylor on his present at Friendfeed and his past at Google [video]. Bret says (small edits for clarity): — <<I had a number of accomplishments that I'm really proud of at Google.
