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Icahn Plans Yahoo Proxy Contest

May 14, 2008

WSJ.com: What's News Technology

Carl Icahn is launching a proxy contest to unseat Yahoo's board, a move aimed at pushing Yahoo back to the bargaining table with Microsoft. Icahn plans to nominate 10 directors to replace Yahoo's boar ...

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YAHOO! SEEKING OPEN ALLIANCE WITH GOOGLE

May 16, 2008

NY Post: All / By PETER LAURIA and HOLLY SANDERS

Yahoo! executives are scrambling to finalize a search-advertising pact with Google in the face of a fresh challenge to its independence from billionaire investor Carl Icahn, The Post has learned. Acc ...

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Teen alleging rape turns to YouTube

May 15, 2008

CNN

The video is hard to turn away from. A sobbing 16-year-old sits in her bedroom and, staring into a camera, says she has been raped. ...

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Facebook has a point where it comes to your privacy

May 15, 2008

Geekaholic / Aditya

Anyone who puts anything on a computer screen that they want hidden from public view should think again. The information stored on social networks doesn’t belong to them, because it is not the ...

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NJ sex offenders charged for MySpace, Facebook use

May 16, 2008

SignOnSanDiego.com RSS Feeds Nation

Three convicted sex offenders have been arrested for surfing social networking Web sites and are believed to be the first charged under the state's new law that restricts their use of the Internet, au ...

Court sides with MySpace in suit over sex assault

May 16, 2008

Examiner US

Federal law gives MySpace.com immunity from a lawsuit over the alleged sexual assault of a teenage girl by a man she met on the social networking Web site, a federal appeals court ruled Friday. ...

Craigslist answers eBay allegations in court

May 16, 2008

AP Top Technology News At 7:48 p.m. EDT

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Classified ad Web site Craigslist is denying online auctioneer eBay's allegation that it unfairly diluted eBay's stake in it and says its board was acting to protect the company. ...

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May 16, 2008

Planet Yahoo! / Heather Champ

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Obama's sniper tale? When he stood up to Detroit's 'cold' ...

May 16, 2008

Top of the Ticket / Andrew Malcolm

Obama says no one clapped when he told off automakers, but tape shows a standing ovation. ...

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Data Portability: It’s The New Walled Garden

May 16, 2008

TechCrunch / Michael Arrington

The scuffle today between Facebook and Google has very little to do with user privacy and everything to do with user control. A huge battle is underway between Google, MySpace and Facebook around cont ...

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Demographics now available in YouTube Insight

May 15, 2008

Official Google Blog / A Googler (noreply@blogger.com)

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Icahn Takes On Yahoo Board

May 15, 2008

WSJ.com: E-Commerce/Media

Billionaire investor Carl Icahn launched a proxy contest to unseat Yahoo 's board, writing in a letter that Yahoo directors have "acted irrationally and lost the faith of shareholders." ...

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Woman Indicted in MySpace Suicide Case

May 16, 2008

NYT > Technology / By JENNIFER STEINHAUER

A Missouri woman is accused of using a phony online identity to taunt a girl, who then committed suicide. ...

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He Said, She Said In Google v. Facebook

May 15, 2008

TechCrunch / Michael Arrington

More details on Facebook’s banning of Google Friend Connect from the Facebook API earlier today. I spoke with Facebook Chief Privacy Officer Chris Kelly and Google’s Director of Engineerin ...

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Yahoo’s Chairman Disputes Icahn’s Accusations

May 16, 2008

NYT > Business / By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN and MIGUEL HELFT

Yahoo’s chairman rejected accusations from the billionaire investor Carl C. Icahn that the company’s board had acted irrationally in rejecting a $47.5 billion takeover offer from Microsoft. ...

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Google Translate adds 10 new languages...

May 15, 2008

Official Google Blog / A Googler (noreply@blogger.com)

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BoomTown Decodes Carl Icahn’s Letter to Yahoo! [BoomTown]

May 15, 2008

All Things Digital / Kara Swisher

Boomtown's most favorite part of the Yahoo takeover circus? The dueling letters, of course! How the lovely practice of missives has fallen out of favor, as soulless emails have grown in use. Well, n ...

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Mom indicted in MySpace suicide

May 15, 2008

MSNBC.com: Technology & Science

A Los Angeles federal grand jury indicted a Missouri woman on Thursday over an alleged role in a MySpace online hoax played on a 13-year-old girl who committed suicide. ...

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The MySpace Suicide Indictment -- And Why It Should Be ...

May 15, 2008

Law Roundtable / The Volokh Conspiracy

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Why Yahoo Doesn't Monetize As Well As Google

May 16, 2008

Clickety Clack: Online Advertising Economics / effective cpms

This will be a post that I refer to often because it lays out the data on why Yahoo's monetization trails Google. I've written about this a lot but I've never backed it up with data the way Seobook ha ...

Lawyer says Yahoo trying to conceal evidence

May 16, 2008

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Business News

Yahoo Inc. is trying to "whitewash embarrassing documents" from an investor lawsuit that accuses it of improperly rejecting a takeover bid by Microsoft Corp., an attorney representing two Detroit pens ...

Yahoo seeks to conceal parts of shareholder suit

May 16, 2008

PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news

(AP) -- Yahoo Inc. is seeking to conceal large portions of a shareholder lawsuit alleging the Internet company's board improperly thwarted Micrsoft Corp.'s $47.5 billion takeover offer, raising share ...

WPP sets up Yahoo alliance (at FT.com)

May 16, 2008

Interet Co Feeds

WPP has announced a two-fold alliance with Yahoo, days after Sir Martin Sorrell, chief executive of the advertising group expressed his disappointment that Microsoft's offer for the internet company h ...

Yahoo Seeks to Conceal Parts of Shareholder Suit, Says Lawyer

May 16, 2008

Law.com - Newswire

A lawyer for Yahoo shareholders says Yahoo is seeking to conceal large portions of a suit alleging the company's board improperly thwarted Microsoft's $47.5 billion takeover offer. In a letter sent Fr ...

Google Overtakes Yahoo as Most-visited US Web Site

May 16, 2008

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The bad news just doesn't seem to end for Yahoo As the Internet portal prepares to fend off a proxy fight by billionaire... ...

BusinessWeek on Why Twitter Matters

May 16, 2008

Twitter Blog / Ev. (noreply@blogger.com)

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