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Ballmer's letter to the Yahoo Board [Acquisitions]
via Valleywag by Nicholas Carlson on January 31, 2008
Microsoft just offered to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion or $31 a share. That's a 62 percent increase over yesterday's close. The offer came as a letter from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to Yahoo's board. Here's your copy.Dear Members of the Board:I am writing on behalf of the Board of Directors of Microsoft to make a proposal for a business combination of Microsoft and Yahoo!. Under...
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Yahoo execs, eager for an alternative, leak one [Rumormonger]
via Valleywag by Nicholas Carlson on February 02, 2008
"This thing with Microsoft is not a lock," a source tells us. Citing executives at NBC and Yahoo, this source says that as alternative to selling out to Microsoft, Yahoo is considering selling its Yahoo Media Group to NBC Universal and doubling down on search and display advertising, essentially "throwing the kitchen sink" into beating Google. According to this source, NBC and Yahoo have already...
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The 10 most memorable tech Super Bowl ads [Bubble 2.0]
via Valleywag by Nicholas Carlson on February 02, 2008
Behold the best tech ad in Super Bowl history: Apple's "1984" ad, which cost $1.6 million to make and run, and only aired nationally once. The following nine ads, while perhaps not as iconic, are all fascinating in how they seek to make the mysteries of tech compelling to the masses.Apple's "1984" adMonster.com from 1999CareerBuilder.com from 2005GoDaddy from 2005Xerox from 1977E*Trade...
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Microsoft to Google: Nuh uh, you're a bigger threat to freedom than we are [Nerdfight]
via Valleywag by Jordan Golson on February 03, 2008
That just about sums up Microsoft's response after Google's top lawyer laid the smack down on the Microsofties. In a short missive, MSFT General Counsel Brad Smith says roughly "you're kicking our ass in search and advertising, so who are you to talk about monopolies on the Internet?" Read the full release after the jump.Statement from Brad Smith, General Counsel, MicrosoftREDMOND,...
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Ron Paul for President [Endorsement]
via Valleywag by Paul Boutin on February 03, 2008
At Valleywag we're bound by a strong sense of identity politics defined by one issue: pageviews. More views = more attention + more traffic-based bonus pay to keep our breakfast bourbon flowing. And when it comes to pageviews, Ron Paul's always-on boosters put Barack backers and Hill/Billies to shame, shame, shame. McCain can't raise a blip against The Blimp. You think we're...
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Blogs beat New York Times 4-1 in five-year contest [Blogging For Dollars]
via Valleywag by Paul Boutin on February 03, 2008
Five years ago, daddy-blogger Dave Winer bet NYT president Martin Nisenholtz that by 2007, blogs would be more relevant sources than the Times in Google search results for the year's top news stories. (Obligatory brag: The bet was my idea.) The Long Now Foundation has handed down its final decision on the bet. The Times came out ahead on the mortgage crisis, but blogs won on the other four...
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Natali Del Conte debuts "Loaded" on CNET [Exclusive]
via Valleywag by Owen Thomas on February 03, 2008
The last time I got loaded with Natali Del Conte, it was at Moose's in San Francisco, and alcohol was involved. So I had to ask: For her new online-video show for CNET, Loaded, will the videoblogger drink on camera, as Kevin Rose does on Diggnation? "I'm not ruling it out," says Del Conte. Good! Because her debut episode, while slickly produced, had way too many screenshots. I watch Web...
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MSNBC streaming Super Tuesday coverage online [Politics]
via Valleywag by Jordan Golson on February 05, 2008
MSNBC is offering a live Webcast of its Super Tuesday coverage online. Could this be the first time a cable channel has simulcast news coverage on the Web? I've asked MSNBC if that's the case, but the network has yet to get back to me. A live broadcast is significantly more expensive than serving up a cached video, as YouTube does. The only other major live Internet broadcast has been...
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Steve Jobs for President [Endorsement]
via Valleywag by Jordan Golson on February 04, 2008
Pageviews show that our Ron Paul endorsement isn't working out. We're going with Plan B: iGovernment, by Steve Jobs. Go buy a "Steve Jobs for President" T-shirt and see why he gets our endorsement.State of the Union address will need to be read on Engadget.Taxes $200 higher for early filers.Dialing any goverment phone number gets a recording, "Did you know that you can get many of your...
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Google and Twitter team up for election coverage, but what about Jaiku? [Politics]
via Valleywag by Jordan Golson on February 04, 2008
Google and Twitter have teamed up to create a Super Twitter Tuesday Google Map, a useful enough mashup which shows election-related Twitter messages by location. More exciting? Google bought Jaiku, Twitter's main competitor, last fall. What this tells us: Jaiku, which has a much smaller and more European user base than Twitter, isn't really doing it for Google. Could Twitter founder Evan...
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