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11:10 PM ET, June 13, 2008

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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Microsoft's Yahoo Offer: $8 Billion Stock Buyback; $1 Billion for Search  —  Oh, they're plenty irked in Redmond today, in the wake of Yahoo's (YHOO) picking of the Google (GOOG) ad-outsourcing deal over a proposal by Microsoft (MSFT).  —  And what exactly was that offer?
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Why Yahoo Passed On Microsoft's Search Deal (New Details!)  —  As of last weekend, Yahoo (YHOO) had two deals on the table: A Microsoft (MSFT) search deal and a Google (GOOG) search deal.  Yahoo chose the Google deal.  After speaking with a person familiar with Microsoft's thinking …
Brier Dudley / Brier Dudley's blog:
Microsoft president reveals Yahoo offer, bangs antitrust war drum  —  The latest scoop on the Microsoft offer that Yahoo rejected comes from a source familiar with Microsoft's position — Kevin Johnson, president of the platforms and services division.  —  In a memo sent today to employees …
Discussion: Beyond Binary and TechCrunch
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Massive Destruction Of Shareholder Value, Employee Morale …
Roy Mark / eWeek:
Google Puts Escape Clause in Yahoo Deal
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Social Networking Gets a Sanity Check  —  After years of hype, noise and funding, the social networking sector is finally getting a harsh, but necessary, sanity check.  —  Today there are numbers out from comScore that indicate plateauing growth for the big two — MySpace and Facebook …
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Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Why Facebook is now the number one social network in the world, and why this matters
Michael Masnick / Techdirt:
AP Goes After Bloggers For Posting Article Headlines And Snippets  —  from the you're-going-to-lose,-badly dept  —  Last fall, the Associated Press claimed that it was ready to change to face the new internet world — and that meant not just being a gatekeeper, but joining in the conversation.
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Scott Rosenberg / Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard:
AP responds on blog excerpting  —  I just received email that I assume is genuine with this statement from the AP: … Let's unpack this just a bit: AP is saying it's OK to link, but that they “get concerned” over use that is “more reproduction than reference or when others are encouraged to cut and paste.”
Gina Trapani / Lifehacker:
Google Browser Sync Discontinued, No Firefox 3 Support  —  Reader hominid.todd says that a Google rep emailed him about the long-awaited status of the Browser Sync extension for Firefox 3.  Turns out they're discontinuing development on it.  Here's Google's response to hominid.todd's inquiry:
Discussion: Download Squad, CyberNet and jkOnTheRun
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Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Browser Sync To Be Discontinued
Discussion: Lifehacker
Pthurrott / SuperSite Blog:
Bob Cringely is off his gourd  —  The Robert X. Cringely stuff was cute once, but it's hit “Fake Steve Jobs” territory now: We know who you are, and it's just not fun or funny anymore.  More to the point, The X-Man's latest is just plain crazy talk: … It's worth noting, incidentally, that even the title of this post is horrible.
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Technorati Raises $7.5 Million, Crashes  —  Technorati, the once-promising, but has-been blog search engine, has raised $7.5 million of a $10 million Series D round, PE Hub reports, citing a regulatory filing.  Returning to invest more: Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Mobius Venture Capital, and FG Incubation, which runs Technorati Japan.
Discussion: CenterNetworks and Valleywag
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Joseph Weisenthal / paidContent.org:
More Cash For Technorati: Blog Searcher Gets $7.5 Million …
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb
Jonathan Richards / Times of London:
Google: we don't know how to make money from YouTube  —  ‘A whole new industry’ could be created around video advertising on the web, Google said, but it's not sure how  —  Google has said that it is still unsure how to make money from YouTube, the enormously popular video-sharing website it owns, but hopes to be able to do so soon.
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Don Reisinger / The Digital Home:
If it can't find a solution, Google should kill YouTube
Discussion: TG Daily
Peter Kafka / Silicon Alley Insider:
Fake Steve Jobs Gets Real New Job: Leaving Forbes For Newsweek  —  Forbes editor Dan Lyons, best known to most of you as Fake Steve Jobs, is leaving his employer after a 10-year run and jumping to Newsweek, where he'll take tech columnist Steve Levy's old slot.
Matt Richtel / New York Times:
Creators of E-Mail Monster Now Try to Tame It  —  SAN FRANCISCO — The onslaught of cellphone calls and e-mail and instant messages is fracturing attention spans and hurting productivity.  It is a common complaint.  But now the very companies that helped create the flood are trying to mop it up.
Discussion: Silicon Alley Insider
Nik Cubrilovic / TechCrunch:
Get Ready For A New Platform War.  Google Gears Drives Straight At Microsoft's Profits.  —  Google launched Gears last May, and for the first year of its release it was considered a minor, niche product that a few developers and users may take advantage of to allow offline access to web applications.
Jen Mazzon / Official Google Docs Blog:
Upload your PDFs!  —  I spend a good chunk of time each week combing our Google Docs Help group, where users share questions and information with each other, and with me!  (You'll see me as Google Guide Jenmazz in the group.)  The questions people ask tell me how we need to clarify and simplify …
Discussion: Download Squad, jkOnTheRun and CyberNet
 
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Ellen Messmer / Network World:
Wall Street becoming Linux stronghold
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Discussion: TechSpot
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The Newest Twist in ConnectU v. Facebook
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Spain's National Obsession with Mobiles, Texting
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Josh Catone / ReadWriteWeb:
Is eBay Artificially Inflating Listing Numbers?
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Apple ranks 7th in notebook sales worldwide
Gavin Clarke / The Register:
Next year critical for Sun's ‘Project Copy Linux’
PC World:
Snow Leopard: Back to Basics
Discussion: MacRumors and Macworld
GamesIndustry.biz:
Sony working on ‘break apart’ motion PS3 pad
David Carnoy / CNET News.com:
Rumor: Xbox 360 price cut coming soon?
Ryan Block / Engadget:
iPhone 3G must be activated in-store (and other followup questions answered)
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Screen Grab: Woz hacks Kathy Griffin's iPhone... on TV
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