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It's Official: Yahoo Acquires Rivals.com; Not Official But True: It Cost About $100 Million — As we were first to report in early April, Yahoo was on the verge of acquiring college sports network Rivals.com. It took a few months to complete, finally closing after months …
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Yahoo! Announces Agreement to Acquire Rivals.com, a Leading College …
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Yodel Anecdotal, Between the Lines, Reuters, Media Biz, SearchViews, The Register and Internet Marketing Monitor
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The Pmarca Guide to Big Companies, part 1: Turnaround!
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Sony, Nintendo forbid AO-rated Manhunt 2 — Console-makers confirm policies preventing licensed third parties from releasing Adults Only games on their systems, effectively banning the Rockstar title. — When Take-Two Interactive yesterday confirmed that the Entertainment Software Rating Board handed …
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Sony and Nintendo: Adults Only rating means no Manhunt 2 for PS2, Wii — Rockstar is a company known for its controversial games and headline-making troubles, but after Manhunt 2 received an AO rating from the ESRB its troubles have deepened: neither Sony nor Nintendo will handle AO-rated games.
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'Blog', 'cookie', 'wiki' top list of hated Internet words: poll — LONDON (AFP) - "Blog", "netiquette", "cookie" and "wiki" have been voted among the most irritating words spawned by the Internet, according to the results of a poll published Thursday. — EU body to expand Web search probe, write to Google
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Internet radio to go silent on June 26? — If you depend on the sounds of Internet radio to get you through your workday, don't be surprised if your headphones pipe out little more than dead air next Tuesday. — In protest of the elevated royalty fees Webcasters are poised to begin owing …
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From Wanda Atkinson, 3WK GM — "I'm writing liners in preparation for the day of silence and would like to start running one immediately. — "The big question: does SaveNetRadio.org have the bandwidth to handle June 26? — "We're considering picking 3 - 5 songs relevant to the subject …
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Two top Google engineers leave — to Benchmark Capital — Two more high-level Google engineers have left the Googleplex — this time to join well-known venture capital firm Benchmark Capital. — Bret Taylor (left) and Jim Norris (right), two of the masterminds behind Google Maps and several …
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Search Engine Land, Epicenter, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, ben barren and Threadwatch.org
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Compiz-Fusion arrives — A new merged community around Compiz project would be known as Compiz-Fusion, details of the announcement here on Compiz Mailing List. — It is not just a new name, quitely behind the scenes developers have been working hard and have come up with some stunning enhancements.
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Who should buy Yahoo? Handicapping 5 likely suitors — At least Yahoo can't complain this week about Google grabbing all the headlines. — While Google has been dishing out the usual morsels of news - tweaks to Google Video, YouTube and Google Office - everyone else can't stop talking about Yahoo.
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Short Descriptions Now Live — Ad descriptions longer than 70 characters on Yahoo! in the U.S. will now be cut off — Starting today, ads that appear in U.S. Yahoo! Search results with descriptions longer than 70 characters will be cut off ("truncated") at the nearest complete word, followed by an ellipsis.
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A New Way to Pay - Google Expands Pay-Per-Action for Google AdWords™ — Google announced today the worldwide expansion of its pay-per-action advertising beta. Pay-per-action is a new pricing model that allows advertisers to pay only when a pre-defined action is completed on their site …
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Google says Vista search changes not enough — As we reported yesterday, Microsoft's "capitulation" to Google's antitrust complaint isn't as much a capitulation as the mainstream media was reporting. We inspected Microsoft's joint filing and found that Microsoft is not going to allow …
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New N95 Firmware Coming — Seems everything's getting a nice little refresh lately, with the N73 and N80, and now I've gotten these screenshots showing the N95 with a fresh firmware (dated yesterday, no less!) I didn't get an official changelog (what's up with those NEVER being available?) but I did get these three screenshots.
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Microsoft says Zune still on track — I still don't see them anywhere I travel, but Microsoft says that it is still on track to sell 1 million of its Zune portable music players by June. That's this month, so I wonder just how many of the devices are leaving Microsoft now and headed to retail stores.
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Tech blogs go from hobbies to businesses — ATHERTON, Calif. — "Om (Malik) and I love scotch," Michael Arrington says. "But we never drink anymore." — The two friends no longer have the time or energy, in part because they're too busy competing with each other.