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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Prepares For A Black Monday — As everyone digests yesterday's extraordinary news around Microsoft's withdrawal of their Yahoo bid, the big rumor around the valley is the Yahoo is frantically trying to negotiate a deal with Google to outsource search advertising and get it announced before the markets open tomorrow.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Does Ballmer Need To Go? — Microsoft's dramatic decision this weekend to withdraw its offer for Yahoo and not pursue a hostile bid raises a whole host of questions. What happens to Yahoo now? What happens to Microsoft? Or is this just a tactic to drive down the price of Yahoo's shares …
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Ballmer's Out? When Pigs Fly! — The blogosphere immediately jumped all over the inevitable meme that after the Yahoo (YHOO) deal fell apart, Microsoft (MSFT) CEO Steve Ballmer's job was at risk. — What with the problems with the new Vista operating system and the general feeling …
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Leaving Las Yahoo: Microsoft's $5 Billion Mistake? — If Microsoft's walkaway from the Yahoo deal is indeed a ploy to save $5 billion, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer may have proven himself pennywise and pound foolish. He was prepared to spend billions to finally make Microsoft a serious rival to Google.
Anupreeta Das / Reuters:Dissident Yahoo shareholder plans vote campaign
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:Why Yahoo (YHOO) Should Go Ahead With Google Outsourcing Deal (GOOG)
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Who da'Punk / Mini-Microsoft:Microsoft Walks On By - Yahoo!
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Steve Gillmor / The Gillmor Gang:Gillmor Gang Emergency Edition 05.03.08
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
At Amazon, Sun Coming Out From the Cloud — Sun Microsystems is getting ready to talk about its cloud computing efforts, including some kind of a deal with Amazon for its Amazon Web Services, according to CEO Jonathan Schwartz, who delivered a short keynote at Startup Camp in San Francisco.
Cory Bohon / The Unofficial Apple Weblog:
4 million iTunes songs disappear, speculations abound — Last week, Apple's iTunes Store turned 5 years old. Now the blogosphere is buzzing with the fact that Apple said they had over “10 million” songs in their library, then later changed the page to say “6 million.”
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Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Why decentralizing Twitter is so important — At dinner last night, Scott Rosenberg, researching his history of blogging book, said he couldn't find any trace of the original version of Tim Berners-Lee's original site, info.cern.ch. I found this amazing. — When I was maintaining …
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Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
Xobni, the email organizer for Outlook, launches publicly — Xobni, the San Francisco company we raved about last year that offers a way to better organize your email from Outlook, is launching publicly with its test version. — Its key feature is a sidebar in your inbox that shows …
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Sarah Lacy:
Valley-Ho! — If there's one theme that I've thought about, talked about and written about the most over my career covering tech and finance it's the debate of whether you need to relocate to Silicon Valley to be successful. In my case, there's no doubt I've had a better career …
Frederic / The Last Podcast:
FriendFeed Has Moved the Conversation Away From Twitter — I didn't bother writing about the Microsoft/Yahoo non-deal yesterday - there are others more qualified to take apart the minutia of this event. — What was interesting to me yesterday, though (and apparently also to Robert Scoble) …
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Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Publisher Tested the Waters Online, Then Dove In — It may be a niche publisher, but the International Data Group has been working out the answers to some big mainstream questions. The biggest one: Can print media survive the transition to the Internet? — The question has taken on new urgency lately.
Stephen Shankland / CNET News.com:
Yahoo's AOL, Google deals still in the works — Microsoft may no longer be breathing down its neck, but Yahoo is still working on major deals with Google and Time Warner's AOL that could significantly alter the Internet pioneer. — The nearer-term possibility is a partnership to use Google …
Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
Nine Inch Nails Give Away New Single on Facebook — In March, the Nine Inch Nails released their album ‘Ghosts’ under a non-commercial Creative Commons license, meaning that it can be shared freely. The band confirmed that they had uploaded the album themselves to sites like The Pirate Bay, Waffles.fm and What.cd.
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