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Dear Yahoo: You’re Fired
via TechCrunch by (author unknown) on May 15, 2008
Shared by Amish Mark Cuban on the board at Yahoo?!As expected, Carl Icahn presented an alternate slate of directors for the upcoming Yahoo shareholder meeting. The letter to Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock says it all: Carl C. Icahn ICAHN CAPITAL LP 767 Fifth Avenue, 47th Floor New York,...
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Why CBS Bought CNET, And Not The Other Way Around
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on May 15, 2008
... millionMay 2008: CBS Acquires CNET For $1.8 billionCNET announced its sale to CBS, a $16.5 billion company, today for $1.8 billion. In late 1999, though, CNET was a $12 billion company. They subsequently acquired MySimon for $700 million and ZDNet for $1.6 billion, and it’s been all downhill for CNET’s market cap since then. So why didn’t CNET continue to grow and ultimately take over a m...
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CBS To Acquire CNET For $1.8 Billion
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on May 15, 2008
“The core businesses of CNET Networks and CBS Interactive represent near perfect category symmetry in premium online content,” Quincy Smith, President, CBS Interactive. And that symmetry is apparently worth about $1.8 billion, which is what CBS just agreed to pay for CNET. The deals values CNET at $11.50/share, and puts a 45% premium on stock from their closing price yesterday. CBS, which is...
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Google Friend Connect Tries to Strangle the Social
via ReadWriteWeb by (author unknown) on May 12, 2008
Shared by Nico friendconnect wird die news der nächsten tage dominieren...Later tonight Google will launch a new service called Friend Connect, aiming to "bring the social" to any page around the web. Unfortunately the service takes a bunch of open technical standards yearning to see the light of day through mass adoption and puts them in a dark little box where they will struggle to breathe. ...
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So much for my time away from the computer — Google Reader for iPhone improves
via VentureBeat by MG Siegler on May 12, 2008
Two things about me: 1) I always have my nose buried in my iPhone. 2) I always have Google Reader open in my web browser at home. Putting those two together, you might have thought I was a heavy user of the Google Reader app for the iPhone, but I really wasn’t. I did like it a lot, but only in spurts. It simply never felt built for power usage. Today, that changes with a new beta version Google...
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Google Is A Malware Site (Says Yahoo)
via TechCrunch by (author unknown) on May 12, 2008
Shared by Ara Hahahahaha!I’m going to assume that the fact that some Yahoo search results that point to Google with a malware warning are a sign that their new partnership with McAfee just needs a little tuning. The alternatives are either (1) Google is serving Malware, or (2) Yahoo or McAfee are playing a little joke.Most results that point to Google don’t have this “feature,” and given...
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FuelFrog: Track Your Gas Mileage
via ReadWriteWeb by Josh Catone on May 12, 2008
Yesterday I filled the gas tank of my Toyota Camry and it came to just under $60. To be fair, it could have been a lot worse -- compared to many parts of the country, where I live gasoline is still relatively cheap. But in this world of rising fuel costs, tracking your gas consumption is a necessity if you want get any relief from the pain at the pump. FuelFrog, a new web app that launched last...
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Digging Deeper On The Top Tech Blogs And Bloggers
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on May 12, 2008
This is a follow up to our post last month that listed some of the top tech bloggers according to TechMeme. The goal was to be able to take a look at the individual bloggers who were writing headlines, not just the blogs they wrote for.As promised, the team (Mark McGranaghan and Henry Work) has put together much more detailed statistics on the blogs and bloggers that publish tech news headlines...
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Facebook Raises Another $100 Million
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on May 10, 2008
Facebook is raising $100 million in debt, reports VentureBeat and Business Week. bringing their total capital raised to nearly half a billion dollars.This most recent round will be used to scale the service via another 50,000 or so servers. Facebook now has over 70 million active users and around 109 milliion monthly visitors, and the site is at times very slow. Compare that to Google, which...
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MySpace Partners with Yahoo, Twitter, eBay on Data "Availability"
via ReadWriteWeb by Marshall Kirkpatrick on May 08, 2008
In a surprise move just unveiled this morning, a handful of big players led by MySpace and Yahoo! have announced that public profiles, photos, videos and friend networks will now be portable from one site to another. We're immediately wondering why this was a partnership between a handful of big sites instead of a move to truly open to the web in general.According to a first report on...
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