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They Shoot Yahoo CEOs, Don't They? But Not Without a Really Smoking Gun and a Much Stronger Board. — Earlier today, Yahoo's persistent thorn, activist shareholder Dan Loeb of Third Point poison-penned another letter to the board of the Silicon Valley Internet company …
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| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Yahoo's Thompson Asks Employees to “Stay Focused” — Except Not on Him — Of course, the Yahoo internal memo for the Yahoo internal crisis of the week! — Here is CEO Scott Thompson's email today to employees about the controversy around the fact that he does not have a computer science degree …
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| David Brooks / New York Times: |
The Campus Tsunami — Online education is not new. The University of Phoenix started its online degree program in 1989. Four million college students took at least one online class during the fall of 2007. — But, over the past few months, something has changed.
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
AT&T HTC One X bootloader denied official unlock solution due to ‘restrictions’ — Yesterday, MoDaCo noticed that the bootloader on the AT&T version of the HTC One X was locked and that HTC's online tool for unlocking it didn't work. We reached out to HTC on the matter … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
YC Price Guide Startup Priceonomics Raises $1.5M Seed From Andreessen Horowitz, SV Angel — How much should you pay for a used iPhone, TV, or bicycle? Spark Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, SV Angel and more think you need to know, so they've invested $1.5 million into Priceonomics, a Y Combinator winter 2012 startup.
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| Steven Troughton-Smith / High Caffeine Content: |
2007's pre-M3 version of Android; the Google Sooner — When Google first showed off Android, they showed it running on a device very similar to Blackberries or Nokia E-class devices of the time. This device was the Google Sooner - an OMAP850 device built by HTC, with no touchscreen or WiFi.| Wall Street Journal: |
Yahoo, Alibaba Working on New, Taxable Deal — Yahoo Inc. has been working on a new deal to sell a portion of its stake in Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. back to the Asian company, and a transaction could be completed within weeks, people familiar with the matter said.
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| Steve Ragan / SecurityWeek: |
Official Fix for PHP Flaw Easily Bypassed, Researchers Say — On Wednesday, a remote code execution vulnerability in PHP was accidently exposed to the Web, prompting fears that it may be used to target vulnerable websites on a massive scale. The bug itself was traced back to 2004, and came to light during a recent CTF competition.
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| Emil Protalinski / ZDNet: |
Facebook blames Scoble snafu on spam false positive — Summary: Facebook has explained why a comment made by Robert Scoble earlier today was blocked for being “irrelevant or inappropriate.” The social networking giant is blaming it on a spam false positive.| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
White House Reiterates Plans To Veto CISPA In Its Current Form; Though For The Wrong Reasons — As I'm sure you remember, the House passed CISPA with a few amendments — some of which may have limited the possible abuses, while at the same time expanding the scope.
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Hachi Combines LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter & Google Into One, Lets You Search All Your Connections At Once — OK, this is cool. A new networking utility called Hachi is taking some of the best functionality offered by LinkedIn (searching by name, company, title, etc. and seeing … Thanks:@theparida
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Emergency Flash update fixes security bug being used to hijack PCs — Adobe has released an emergency update for its Flash Player that fixes a security bug that's being actively exploited to hijack Windows computers running the ubiquitous software. — The “object confusion vulnerability” …
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