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CNET REORGANIZATION: INTERNAL MEMO FROM NEIL ASHE, CEO — We all recognize that we must continuously change to be successful, and we embrace change. At the beginning of the year, we talked about our focus on category defining brands and the need to drive greater efficiencies in the business.
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Online media company CNET cutting 120 jobs — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Online media company CNET Networks Inc said on Wednesday it will eliminate 120 jobs, or about 10 percent of its staff, in a restructuring to help it focus on long-term growth amid complaints from some investors.
Joseph Weisenthal / paidContent.org:CNET Internal Memo: ‘Difficult Decisions’; Realignment; May Raise …
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Google February Paid Clicks Lousy (Again)* — A source says Comscore has finally released its February “US paid clicks” report for Google (GOOG), Yahoo (YHOO), et al. We have not seen the report, but our source relays the following: — Google had 515mm US paid clicks in February, which is up only 3% year over year.
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24/7 Wall St.:
The Twenty-Five Most Valuable Blogs — There is no way to accurately put a value on blogs and blogging companies. All are privately-held and, as is true with many content businesses, the value of the company is based on what a buyer will pay. The figures we have put together look …
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Silicon Alley Insider, Pro Blogging News, Beet.TV, The Guidewire, HipMojo.com, Maple Leaf 2.0, David Galbraith, Mark Evans and MediaFile
Ryan Block / Engadget:
Motorola insider tells all about the fall of a technology icon — Last month we were contacted by the late Geoffrey Frost's personal adviser at Motorola; until Frost's death in 2005, Numair Faraz worked under the Motorola's former CMO — the man widely regarded as the father of the RAZR.
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CNET News.com, Gadgetell, Gizmodo, IntoMobile, One More Thing, Out of the Box, MacDailyNews, Switched, Boing Boing Gadgets, New York Times, Slashdot and SMS Text News
USA Today:
Amazon takes on Apple with copy-protection-free music — The music industry is finally comfortable selling digital music without copy protection, but the huge shift hasn't resulted in dramatically higher sales. — Instead, it produced something that major music labels have long sought: a strong No. 2 competitor to Apple.
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Silicon Alley Insider, VentureBeat, TechRadar.com, Coolfer, hypebot, MacDailyNews, CNET News.com and eHomeUpgrade
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Brier Dudley / Brier Dudley's blog:
Finally, the $500 ultramobile with touch coming in May — At least that's what it sounds like from this report, outlining the product map for Asustek's low-cost computers. — Coming in May will be a new version of the Eee PC with an 8.9-inch touchscreen and possibly GPS capability, the report said.
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Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:
Live from Mozilla: Firefox for iPhone? No. — Mike Schroepfer, Mozilla VP of engineering — I'm at a Mozilla “open house” sitting around a table with about 10 other bloggers. Lots of history is being discussed here; the 10th anniversary of Mozilla will be celebrated on Monday (Firefox 1 came out two years after Mozilla started).
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Junyor / my.opera.com:
Opera and the Acid3 Test — We have some excellent news! Lars Erik Bolstad, the Head of Core Technology at Opera Software, sent me the following information to share:
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Ed Burnette's Dev Connection, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, CyberNet, Bb's RealTech and Slashdot
Nilay Patel / Engadget:
HP UMPC 2133 specs revealed, street date of April 7th? — We'd been hearing that HP's slick UMPC 2133 was going sport VIA processors, and now we've got some more info to back that up — we just received what appears to be a full spec list for the upcoming machine, and it's VIA C7-Ms all around …
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
More Questions Than Answers About OpenSocial — The launch of the OpenSocial Foundation yesterday was probably more about preempting lawsuits than it is about anything else, but getting Yahoo!, Google and Newscorp all in the same room raised some eyebrows. It also raises some big questions.
Harrison Hoffman / CNET News.com:
Facebook quietly launches “People You May Know” — A comparison of Facebook (Left) and LinkedIn's (Right) features — Facebook is launching a pretty cool new feature. It's called “People You May Know” and it shows exactly what you would think it does...people who you may know, based on people who you are friends with.
Seth Finkelstein / Guardian:
Wikipedia's school for scandal has plenty more secrets to reveal — Sex, money and Wikipedia have combined in recent weeks for a series of scandals. It began as cofounder Jimmy Wales and conservative pundit Rachel Marsden ended a sexual relationship amid leaked private messages …
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Jeremiah Owyang / Web Strategy:
Email Consumes Us — We live in a hyper-connected world, yet part of the blowback is the excessive communication that occurs -I fear it will only get worse over time. — Today, I spoke to an Executive at medium sized corporation who confessed that she cannot keep up with her email inflow.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
AT&T Is Working on Its Own 3D Browser (Pogo). What Are They Thinking? — It takes either a very brave or very foolish company to enter the browser wars. But that is exactly what AT&T is doing—in a small way. I was just shown a demo for Pogo, a 3D browser based on Mozilla that is in private beta …
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Lori Grunin / Webware.com:
Review: Adobe Photoshop Express — Adobe's VP of Hosted and Consumer Services refers to Photoshop Express as “the on-ramp to the Adobe digital-imaging franchise.” Next exit Photoshop Elements? Construction delays? Slippery pavement ahead? The mind reels with metaphorical possibilities.
Cade Metz / The Register:
Apple forbids Windows users from installing Safari for Windows — First they mock web security. Then EULAs — In using Apple Software Update to slip his Safari browser onto millions of Windows PCs, Steve Jobs didn't just undermine “the security of the whole Web”. He's made a mockery of end user licensing agreements.
