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Wall Street Journal:
Microsoft to Replace Head of Mobile Group — Microsoft plans to announce the replacement of the head of its mobile phone group as part of a broader executive reshuffling, people familiar with the matter said.
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Vodafone:
Vodafone Hires Pieter Knook to Head Up New Internet Services Function — New organisation will accelerate delivery of the Group's Mobile Plus strategy — Vodafone Group Plc today announces the creation of Vodafone Internet Services which will lead the development and delivery of Vodafone's current …
Peter Sayer / IDG News Service:Microsoft Head of Mobile Communications Out
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Loïc Le Meur / Loic Le Meur Blog:
How I started Seesmic and raised $6 million — I closed the initial funding of Seesmic in September 2007. The main investment came from Atomico's Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis (they invested $5.5 million on the $6 million). Talking to bloggers all the time, I have not been very good at keeping …
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Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Seesmic: Still don't really get it — Loic LeMeur's video startup, Seesmic, has finally opened up to the public after being a hot beta invite for some time now, but I have to admit that — while I think it's great that Loic has managed to raise $6-million from a host of luminaries …
Ian / IanSchafer.com:
So What Happened At YouTube's Videocracy Event? — YouTube trotted out all their heavy hitters for their Videocracy event in NYC last night. — Here are some highlights of what they said: — For Content Partners/Creators — Get ready for active sharing. — Get ready for upgraded video editing tools.
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Michelle Slatalla / New York Times:
If You Can't Let Go, Twitter — SOMETIMES, you just have to trust your relatives. You have to be willing to let them leave the house unchallenged. Suspend disbelief and let them take the car. — That's what I tell my three daughters, anyway. But it never works out like that.
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Comcast:
Comcast Reports 2007 Results and Provides Outlook for 2008 — Financial Tables — 2007 Consolidated Revenue increased 24% — 2007 Consolidated Operating Income increased 21% — 2007 Consolidated Operating Cash Flow increased 25% — 2007 EPS of $0.83; Adjusted EPS of $0.74 increased 23%
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Paul Miller / Engadget:
Microsoft drums up its very own Xbox 360 shortage — The word on the street, nay, the word straight from Jeff Bell's mouth, is that the Xbox 360 is experiencing stock shortages, which could hurt sales for January and February. We'd already heard of Elite shortages, but now they seem to be more widespread.
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PR Newswire:
AT&T Adds to HSUPA Device Lineup With Two New LaptopConnect Cards From Option — Option GT Ultra and Option GT Ultra Express Available for Use on AT&T's 3G — AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) announced today two new LaptopConnect cards from Option, the GT Ultra and GT Ultra Express.
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Doug Aamoth / CrunchGear:
‘Love Tester’ technology now available in phones — How passionate does you lover feel about you? And how do you guys feel about people using the word “lover” to describe a significant other? Do you show up at a party and tell everyone that your lover's going to be there soon? Do you show up at parties?
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Matt Asay / The Open Road:
Zimbra's new Desktop: Look ma, no browser! — I fell in love with Zimbra's Ajax-style interface the first time I saw it. — Slick, powerful, and much more extensible than Microsoft Outlook ever dreamed of being. There was just one thing I hated about the Zimbra experience …
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Robin Goad / Hitwise Intelligence:
What happens if your site gets ‘blacklisted’ by Google? — What is the impact on a website of being ‘blacklisted’ by Google? Recently the insurance comparison website GoCompare.com faced precisely this dilemma after the search engine picked up on irregular inbound links to its site, causing it to plummet down the rankings.
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p2pnet, Search Engine Land, WebMetricsGuru, Search Engine Roundtable and Smalltalk Tidbits …
Kevin Heisler / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Yahoo Mails Letter to Shareholders: Full Text — Yahoo mailed a letter to shareholders outlining the reasons the Board believes Microsoft's proposal significantly undervalues Yahoo and isn't in the best interests of Yahoo stockholders. — In the missive Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang emphasizes its strong brand …
Anders Bylund / Ars Technica:
Yahoo turns to News Corp., leaving Microsoft jilted at the altar — Yahoo didn't like Microsoft's advances, despite the ostensibly sweet buyout offer of $44.6 billion, or $31 per share. So management is looking around for other sweethearts that could keep it from falling under the control of big, bad Mr. Softy.
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Google's Many Valentine's Day Specials — Google is all dressed up for today's occasion, Valentine's Day. It's the day where in many cultures couples and wanna-be-couples are expected to send a greeting to their loved one, causing sales spikes for greeting cards companies and probably chocolate …
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
50% Of All BitTorrent Downloads are TV-Shows — Reports show that 50% of all people using BitTorrent at any given point in time do so to download TV-series, quite an impressive number. In total, over a billion TV-shows are downloaded every year, and this number continues to rise.
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Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
PageOnce to Put All Your Online Accounts in One Place — Personal content aggregators are nothing new. We recently covered the latest of many services that consolidate your social networking activity into one place. But PageOnce, a company that was on this year's Israel Web Tour …
