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GigaOM:
Yahoo, Please Put Up A Fight — Yahoo has lost about $20 billion in market cap over the last two years. The fight that it was supposed to put up against Google has been full of Brownian Motion, generating no real momentum. — Yahoo has a staggering 500 million users.
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Apple store down: pink iPod nano and Canadian iPhone rumors swirl — Yup, it's down again... on a Tuesday... just hours before they announce their quarterly financials. We've been hearing about new pink iPod nanos all morning which have apparently been shipped to big box retail locations.
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Infinite Loop, Hardware 2.0, PC World, MacRumors, MarketWatch, Paul Kedrosky's …, Gizmodo, The Unofficial Apple Weblog and O'Grady's PowerPage
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Christine Monaghan / Apple:
Apple Adds Pink to the iPod nano Lineup — Apple® today announced that it is adding a gorgeous new pink iPod® nano to the lineup of the world's most popular music player. The much-requested pink iPod nano is available immediately in an 8GB model for $199. iPod nano features …
Chris / LiveSide:
Windows 7 details emerge - look Software + Services — Right now everyone is getting excited over the apparent distribution of early Windows 7 builds to external Microsoft partners. One poster over at Neowin is claiming to have installed the build and while unsurprisingly its difficult to verify this …
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Long Zheng / istartedsomething:
Neowin.net forum member posts first review of Windows 7 Milestone 1 Build 6.1.6519.1 — Looks like it didn't take long for the first external build of Windows 7 to be leaked on to the interwebs. Black fumes were reported escaping Steven Sinofsky's office earlier this morning after news Microsoft …
Rafe Needleman / Webware.com:
Netvibes gets unnecessary social features — My favorite start page, Netvibes, is getting an interesting upgrade. The new “Ginger” version gets social features for sharing your start-page widgets and layouts, as well as a status feed reminiscent of Facebook and Twitter.
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Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Netvibes Grows Up — Netvibes, with today's release of the latest version of its personalized start page service, Ginger, thinks it finally sees a way to revenue. The three-year-old company, which has offices in Paris, London and San Francisco, aims to begin monetizing its technology through …
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MarketingShift
BurstMedia:
Current Research You Can Use Consumers Shout “I Want My Online Video” — Video content — once reserved to restricted distribution and corporate scheduling — is now readily available on demand at your favorite Internet web site. The torrent of available video content online has been met …
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Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Shooting yourself in the foot: Time Warner's usage caps — Last week, we learned from a leaked memo that Time Warner Cable is preparing to roll out usage-based broadband service tiers to new customers in Beaumont, TX. The company has since confirmed its plans, with monthly bandwidth caps set at 5GB, 10GB, 20GB, and 40GB.
rim.com:
RIM Showcases BlackBerry Platform Enhancements at Lotusphere 2008 — Orlando, FL, Lotusphere 2008, Booth 516 - Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today announced a series of updates for its market-leading BlackBerry® platform that include enhanced messaging and collaboration …
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Phone Scoop, PalmAddicts, InformationWeek Weblog, Mobility Site, The Mobile Gadgeteer and jkOnTheRun
Stefanie Olsen / CNET News.com:
Life after Google, with millions — What would you do if you were flush with $10 million or $100 million? Would you retire, go to work every day at the company that made you rich, or chase other dreams? — That's the multimillion-dollar question for hundreds of early Googlers.
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Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim
Mylene Mangalindan / Wall Street Journal:
EBay Chief Whitman Plans to Retire — EBay Inc. Chief Executive Meg Whitman is preparing to retire. — In the past few months, Ms. Whitman, who has led the San Jose, Calif., Internet auctioneer since March 1998, has been delegating more daily responsibilities to her lieutenants and is completing …
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Techland, Digital Daily, Bits, CrunchGear, TechCrunch, paidContent.org, Digital Trends, David Galbraith, VoIP Blog, 901am, The Register, BloggingStocks, Seeking Alpha, Between the Lines, WebProNews, Valleywag, Silicon Alley Insider, Tech Beat, Clickety Clack, Pulse 2.0, John Battelle's Searchblog and Mashable!
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
MacBook Air Unboxed, Compared to Sony VAIO — Here you have the first MacBook Air unboxing: iPhone-styled tiny packaging, minimalist and all in smooth black. Not only that, but they were allowed to compare it to another thin laptop, a Sony VAIO (fight!) Akiko Wada, a Japanese blogger …
Justin Berka / Journals.ars:
Piper Jaffray lowers iPod estimates ahead of earnings call — Being a stock analyst is apparently a bit like being a weather forecaster, since no one really cares if you're a bit off. Such is the case with Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster, who has released a number of iPod sales estimates for the December quarter.
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