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Waxy.org:
Yahoo and Upcoming, Sitting In A Tree — Two years ago, I launched Upcoming.org and announced it to the world. Today, along with my partners Gordon Luk and Leonard Lin, I'm unbelievably proud to announce that Upcoming.org is now a member of the Yahoo! family. — I've always had a warm and fuzzy feeling about Yahoo.
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Yahoo! Search blog:
What's Upcoming at Yahoo! Local — As readers of the Yahoo! Search blog know, our vision is a far-reaching one — to enable people to find, use, share, and expand all human knowledge. — Events are a particularly exciting area of human knowledge — chock full of rich local, social, and temporal data.
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¿Y! Tu? (aka Holy Schmoly, aka Leeerrooooy Jeeenkinns) — (links filled as they come, check out the upcoming update, refresh css) — It seems like the cool thing for all my friends to do these days is to announce that they're now working for Yahoo! I think you know where this is heading …
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Getluky / getluky.net:
Yahoo! Acquires Upcoming.org — Today marks the day that Yahoo! has officially acquired Upcoming.org. Here's the official announcement, which covers the basics: … Tackling the tricky problems behind events is a worthy challenge. Many sites make an attempt to be a calendar on the Internet …
Michael Liedtke / biz.yahoo.com:
Yahoo Inc. Acquires Upcoming.org — Yahoo Inc. Acquires Event Planning Site Upcoming.org — SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Yahoo Inc. has acquired Upcoming.org, an online event planning site that's expected to infuse the Internet powerhouse with more content about local communities.
Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Windows Expertise:
Single-play DVDs? It's a hoax — On the Internet, a hoax can spread just as fast as a genuine news story. That's the lesson from the bogus story published in an obscure UK business magazine yesterday that claimed Microsoft is about to unleash a new single-play DVD format.
Carlo / Techdirt:
Sun Welcomes You To 1999 With Its Google Non-Announcement — from the i'm-forever-blowing-bubbles dept. — The rumor mill's been working overtime the last few days as hype built up surrounding an announcement from Google and Sun. Much of the speculation was that they'd announce some type …
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Greg Reinacker / Greg Reinacker's Weblog:
NewsGator acquires NetNewsWire — The rumors and stories this morning are true...NewsGator has acquired NetNewsWire. Here's the press release, and a Q&A about the deal. This is awesome news - we're all very excited about it! — The rationale here is similar to what I posted about the FeedDemon deal.
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Kasper Jade / appleinsider.com:
Apple planning launch of video iPod — Apple Computer has begun production of a new version of its iPod digital music player that will be capable of playing videos, AppleInsider has learned. — Reliable sources believe the iPod could be introduced as early as next week …
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PC World's Techlog, Apple | News.blog, Rodrigo A. Sepúlveda Schulz, Scobleizer, The Apple Blog and Gizmodo
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Phoenix / Search Engine Roundtable:
Save Jeeves! Pask Ask Employee Speaks Out — Save Jeeves, so says a very concerned blogger! It appears one of the past employees of Ask are getting up in arms about the decision from Ask/IAC to sack the butler. He apparently has a following that is voicing their dismay at loosing him eventually.
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www2.sprint.com:
Sprint Nextel Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit — Sprint Nextel Files Lawsuit Against Vonage, Voiceglo and theglobe.com for Infringing Seven Patents — Media Contact: — Debra Peterson, 913-794-3765 — Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE: S) today announced one of its subsidiaries filed …
Mary Jo Foley / microsoft-watch.com:
'GoogleOffice': A Microsoft Office Killer? — If 'GoogleOffice' ever materializes, it won't be going head-to-head with Microsoft Office. Instead, expect some new MSN services in the pipeline to emerge as Redmond's secret weapons. — To hear Sun, Google and the Anything But Microsoft campers tell it …
Pamela Parker / ClickZ:
A Fashionable New Blog Network — Glam Media is expected today to unveil a fashion blog network, allowing the media and e-commerce player to offer advertising packages that combine Glam.com and blog inventory. — It's the first significant move by the Silicon Valley media start-up, which just launched last month.
Dave Winer / Dave Winer's RSS Weblog:
Editorial: Ning harkens back to 1999 — Here's the scene. Team of famous entrepreneurs raises a huge pile of VC, with a very vague idea what the product will be. They have a series of off-sites and put up lists of "ideas" on flipcharts. The ideas are actually products that other people came up with and sold to Yahoo or Microsoft.
