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Wall Street Journal:
New Rejection from Yahoo Sets The Stage for Ugly Fight — A new joint offer from Microsoft Corp. and investor Carl Icahn to break up Yahoo Inc. — firmly rejected by Yahoo — sets the stage for an intensified proxy battle as fewer options for compromise among the combatants remain.
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Reuters:
Microsoft, Icahn offered Yahoo $2.3 bln annual revenue — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp (NasdaqGS:MSFT - News) and billionaire investor Carl Icahn's joint proposal for Yahoo Inc (NasdaqGS:YHOO - News), which was rejected on Saturday, included $2.3 billion in guaranteed annual revenue …
New York Times:
In Bid for Yahoo, Microsoft Turns More Aggressive — By MICHAEL J. de la MERCED and ANDREW ROSS SORKIN — Shareholders searching for détente in the battle between Yahoo and Microsoft are unlikely to find it in Microsoft's new proposal to buy Yahoo's search business, one the Internet company swiftly rejected on Saturday.
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Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News.com:
Yahoo search deal boost as big as a bread box? — How much better is better? — While Microsoft and Carl Icahn's joint-proposal was rejected by Yahoo on Saturday, some components of the transaction remained the same and others were given growth hormones, according to sources familiar with the companies.
Don Reisinger / Ars Technica:
Opinion: How Microsoft can turn the negative Vista PR tide — Things have been awfully tough for Microsoft over the past year. Aside from all of its woes with Yahoo and Jerry Yang, the company has faced a PR nightmare on the Vista front. — It's being hammered from all sides by companies …
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Michael Mace / Mobile Opportunity:
Hypenotized by Apple — Watching the cloud of hype around last week's release of the new iPhone, I was struck by the way Apple's psychological influence over the tech industry continues to grow. I'm having trouble thinking of any recent technology product, let alone a smartphone …
Brad Stone / New York Times:
Buy.com Deal With EBay Angers Sellers — SAN FRANCISCO — The golden era of the small seller on eBay, hawking gewgaws and knickknacks from the basement or garage, is coming to a noisy and ignominious end. — Consumers appear to be tiring of online auctions, and rivals like Amazon.com …
Nik Cubrilovic / TechCrunch:
Jason Calacanis' First New Email Post — Jason Calacanis announced on Friday that he was retiring from blogging. There was a very mixed reaction to the news, with most believing it to be a publicity stunt. Jason said in his farewell post that instead of blogging, he would instead be posting …
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Jeff Carlson / TidBITS:
Send SMS for Free via AIM on iPhone — I expected that iPhone 3G service from AT&T would be more expensive compared to the original iPhone - $30 per month for data on top of voice service, a $10 increase), but the telco slipped in a poison profit pill by removing SMS text messaging from the plan.
Macenstein:
Developers furious over App Store “Line Cutting” — There's a bit of bad blood brewing between developers of iPhone Apps these days. It seems several different companies have renamed their iPhone games to begin with either a space, a quotation mark, or some other symbol so that they appear …
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Clint Ecker / Infinite Loop:
Tip: Updating iPhone to 5A347 reduces yellow tinge — Many of our readers have noted that their new iPhone 3Gs purchased this past Friday had screens that were exhibiting a much yellower hue than their original iPhones, even when updated to the latest firmware using iTunes.
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Brooke Crothers / CNET News.com:
Sun, Fujitsu unveil quad-core SPARC64 chip, servers — Sun Microsystems and Fujitsu have announced a quad-core version of the SPARC64 processor and servers to that will use the chip. — Fujitsu—which manufactures and designs the SPARC64 processor—along with Sun unveiled the M4000 …
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Kevin Michaluk / CrackBerry.com blogs:
Exclusive: First Live Pics of the BlackBerry Thunder! — This just in, you are now looking at the first live images of the BlackBerry Thunder and its touchscreen keyboard!! — The first pics and screenshots we have seen of the BlackBerry Thunder have been awesome, but it's nice to finally …
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Dan Ackerman / CNET News.com:
E3 2008: game over for the Electronic Entertainment Expo? — This week brings us the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo — the video game trade show better known as E3. This is E3's 14th year, and my 10th time attending the show. But despite booming game sales and a firm foothold …
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Toby Padilla / Last.fm:
Last.fm for iPhone and iPod Touch — We are pleased to announce the launch of Last.fm on the iPhone and iPod Touch! Sam Steele, our iPhone development army of one, has been cranking away at a full blown Last.fm app on Apple's mobile platforms for months now and the results are nothing short of insanely great.
Steven Musil / CNET News.com:
Microsoft cuts price of Xbox 360 — Microsoft on Sunday cut the price of its best-selling Xbox 360 Pro model game console with a 20GB hard drive from $349 to $299. — The company also introduced a new Xbox 360 model with a 60GB hard drive. It will go on sale in stores in the U.S. and Canada for $349 in early August.
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