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Yahoo! Supports OpenSocial; Yahoo!, MySpace and Google to Form Non-Profit OpenSocial Foundation — Community Organization to Assure Neutrality and Longevity of — Specification for Building Social Applications Across the Web — SUNNYVALE & LOS ANGELES & MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Mar 25 …
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Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Yahoo, Google, MySpace form non-profit OpenSocial Foundation — This post was expanded at 10:49 AM PT to add comment from the OpenSocial Foundation conference call. — It's like the Justice League of social media: Google, Yahoo, and News Corp.'s MySpace.com announced on Tuesday …
InfoWorld:
Citigroup: Microsoft likely to raise bid for Yahoo — Microsoft will most likely increase its initial $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo, according to a Citigroup Investment Research analyst. — “We believe that a Yahoo sale to Microsoft — at a price higher than the initial $31 [per share] …
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Microsoft to Raise Yahoo Bid to $34—Citi — Two months later, and we're back where we began: Microsoft (MSFT) bids $31 for Yahoo (YHOO), Yahoo counters with $40, and a price in the mid-$30s should get the deal done. — True, Yahoo had to explore other options.
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:Yahoo: Time to Negotiate With Microsoft?
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Jon Fortt / Big Tech:
Microsoft looks to cash in on the iPhone — Microsoft has a profitable business building software for the Mac; now it has an eye on the iPhone, too. Image: Apple — Tom Gibbons, head of Microsoft's Specialized Devices and Applications Group, said the focus would be on extending Office functions onto the iPhone and iPod touch.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Defection Watch: Google's Director of Social Media Decides It's More Social at Facebook — If you are the director of Social Media at Google, wouldn't you rather be working at Facebook? That is what Ethan Beard decided to do. The Google executive turned in his resignation last week and will be joining Facebook.
Erika Morphy / E-Commerce Times:
Domain Name Registrars: The Weakest Link in Online Free Speech — Protesters have learned to target domain name registrars instead of the actual publishers of offending content, because those usually anonymous Internet players will fold like a tent in the face of an impending storm.
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The Huffington Post:
New York Apple Stores Sold Out Of iPhones — New York may now have three Apple stores, but there's not a single iPhone among them. — Apple Store employees at all three New York locations — the original SoHo store, the 59th Street location, and the most recent addition, on West 14th Street …
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Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Yahoo Redesign With Centered Logo — The last time the Yahoo homepage saw a major overhaul was in May 2006. Now, another redesign moves the logo from the left side back into the middle again (Martin in the comments notes this was already rolled out for some time in UK/ Ireland).
Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
Innocent man pinched by RIAA asks SCOTUS for attorney's fees — Cliff Thompson, a San Antonio resident sued by the RIAA for copyright infringement, has asked the Supreme Court to decide whether the record labels should be forced to pay attorneys' fees in cases where they voluntarily dismiss copyright infringement cases.
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MacNN:
Apple granted patents for iPod Click Wheel, iMac Flex Arm, more — On March 25, the US Patent & Trademark Office published four of Apple's newly granted patents respectfully titled Split Edits, Spacing for microphone elements, Computer controlled display device and Touch pad for handheld device.
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Major Nelson / Xbox Live's Major Nelson:
Gamerscore Correction — I wanted to follow up and let you know where we are on the post I made a few months ago on Gamesave Tampering. Today we took action on some of the accounts we have identified as the most serious offenders who have violated the Xbox LIVE Terms of Use by tampering with their Gamerscore and Achievements.
Michael Learmonth / Silicon Alley Insider:
Mogulus, Looking For Revenue, To Try Charging ‘Lifecasters’ — New York-based Mogulus, one of at least a dozen live Internet broadcasters looking for business model, thinks it's found one: Charging people money. — CEO Max Haot said the company will introduce its “pro” service in April …
Michael Learmonth / Silicon Alley Insider:
Blip.TV Gets ‘Diggnation,’ ‘GILF’ — Blip.tv signed distribution deals with two of the bigger digital video studios: Revision3 and 60 Frames. The deal allows blip.tv to distribute all series produced by the two production companies, including Revision3's “Diggnation” and 60 Frames' “GILF.”
InfoWorld:
Airspan blames customer for poor WiMax performance — After Australian broadband operator Buzz Broadband slammed WiMax as a “disaster,” its equipment supplier Airspan has hit back, saying the performance issues were not its fault. — The controversy started at a WiMax conference in Bangkok.
