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Wall Street Journal:
Microsoft Board Mulls Yahoo Bid But Price Remains Key Issue — Microsoft Corp.'s directors are meeting Wednesday to weigh the company's approach in its takeover standoff with Yahoo Inc. and an announcement could come following the meeting, say people familiar with the matter.
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Wall Street Journal:
Microsoft's Next Move on Yahoo Is Imminent — One Possibility — Is a Proxy Slate — To Replace Board — Microsoft Corp. is expected to make its next move in the three-month-old takeover standoff with Yahoo Inc. as early as Wednesday, as the two sides have failed to reach any negotiated acquisition deal.
CNBC.com:
Exclusive Interview With Google's Eric Schmidt — CNBC's Maria Bartiromo sat down with Google — [GOOG Loading... (%) ] CEO, Dr. Eric Schmidt Tuesday at the Milken Conference in Los Angeles to discuss Google's growth and U.S. slowdown, the possibility of a Microsoft acquisition of Yahoo! …
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Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
Eric Schmidt: Google Has Secret Plan To Mint Money With YouTube (GOOG) — CNBC is hyping a Eric Schmidt/Maria Bartiromo interview that airs today at 4pm, but they're already released the transcript from the chat, taped yesterday. — Predictably, there are no shockers …
Michael Kanellos / CNET News.com:
HP makes memory from a once theoretical circuit — It's the tale of the lost circuit. — Thirty-seven years ago, Leon Chua, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley, mathematically theorized that scientific symmetry demands that there should be a fourth fundamental circuit.
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Mimi Turner / Hollywood Reporter:
Thom Yorke: Radiohead's stunt was ‘one-off’ — Band won't offer unpriced downloads again — LONDON — They turned the music sales model on its head, but indie rockers Radiohead won't be repeating their decision to let fans choose what to pay for their downloads, frontman Thom Yorke told The Hollywood Reporter.
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Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica:
An elephant never forgets? George W. Bush's lost e-mails — The case of the missing e-mail — A federal magistrate judge on Thursday chastised the Bush administration for failing to fully answer questions related to a long-running dispute over missing White House emails.
Lessig Blog:
It's Comrade Lessig to you, bub. — Julian Sanchez has a piece in Ars Technica analyzing my recent outing by PFF as a communist. Or socialist. Or quasi-socialist utopianist. Whatever. I'll leave the criticisms of the criticisms of my scholarship to the reader to judge.
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Elinor Mills / CNET News.com:
Google diving into 3D mapping of oceans — We've got Google Earth and Google Sky. Next up will be a map of the world below sea level—Google Ocean. — The company has assembled an advisory group of oceanography experts, and in December invited researchers from institutions around the world to the Mountain View, Calif., Googleplex.
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Margaret Kane / CNET News.com:
Time Warner to split off cable service — Time Warner is splitting off its cable services division, the company said Wednesday. — Time Warner currently owns around 84 percent of Time Warner Cable. The media giant, which has been struggling of late, has been rumored to be discussing an AOL partnership with Yahoo.
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Tom Krazit / One More Thing:
Psystar's Open Computer arrives at CNET — Psystar's Open Computer has arrived. — (Credit: CNET Networks) — The Open Computer has landed at CNET Networks. — My colleagues over at CNET Reviews in New York have managed to get their hands on a review unit of Psystar's Open Computer …
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Nick Nguyen / delicious blog:
Firefox 3, del.icio.us, and you — Firefox 3 users, rejoice! Today I'm pleased to announce a beta release of an enhanced version of our Firefox Add-on for del.icio.us that now has full Firefox 3 support while retaining Firefox 2 compatibility. While it is largely similar to the release version …
Chanpory Rith / LifeClever:
The Missing iPhone Ringtone — I love the ringtone at the end of every iPhone television ad. It's simple, sweet, and unassuming. But strangely, it's doesn't come installed on the iPhone. You can't even buy it from the iTunes Music Store. Fortunately, you can download it here for free:
Business Wire:
Akamai Reports First Quarter 2008 Financial Results — Normalized net income* was $75.6 million, or $0.41 per diluted share, up 49 percent year-over-year — CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM - News), the leader in powering rich media …
Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
BlogRize: Social News Gets Personal — The idea behind BlogRize is that the “wisdom of the crowds” works best if you have the right crowd. While sites like Digg.com have chosen to go mainstream, BlogRize believes that finding the best content from the web should be a more personal experience.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Goodness Prevails: Iron Man Screening Is ON. — Drama over. The CrunchGear/TechCrunch Iron Man screening, which Marvel tried to shut down yesterday for no good reason whatsoever (more on that below), is back on. — We are adding another 30 spots on the wait list.
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Ashlee Vance / The Register:
KVM-funder takes a swing at desktop virtualization — Qumranet, a rather small software company, wants to make a very large play in the virtualization market with a new product. It's looking for Solid ICE to go up against the desktop virtulization wares from VMware, Citrix, Microsoft and a host of start-ups.
