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For better or worse, Yahoo now doesn't have a leader. At least the market thinks that's a good thing and
Yahoo shareholders got rewarded with a $1.3 billion bump. Today's featured commenter, , has a different idea about Jerry Yang leaving:
Google makes it easy to rip off Life Magazine
Pictures from
Life's centuries-old archives will now be available as part of . The images will be hosted on Google servers, however they carry no clear usage instructions. At least it's now easier for bloggers to spice up their posts with something that has a bit more gravitas than 4chan images.
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Tesla Motors CEO
Elon Musk could be Steve Jobs. If only his visionary companies and products were successes. Today's featured commenter, , connects more dots between Steve and Elon:
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This time around, dotcom exuberance is a lot more restrained than the first one.
Except for Facebook and its legions of workers. Today's featured commenter, , wonders out loud why exactly Facebook needs so many workers:
One Laptop Per Child program hits Europe
Nicholas Negroponte, the MIT Media Lab director turned
non-CEO of the nonprofit One Laptop Per Child project, is working with Amazon.com to start shipping out the green-and-white laptops that no one really wants to Europeans. It's been a year since they were first offered for sale in the United States via a…
Rearden Commerce cuts 50 people
A tipster sent in word that Rearden — an e-commerce startup from Foster City — is rumored to have cut 72 people. We hear the actual number is closer to 50 out of 375. The company provides a "personal assistant portal" that streamlines travel planning, reservations, and general logistics within corporations. Or…
Spam hydra partially beheaded
After McColo Corporation, a San Jose Internet service provider suspected of providing services for major spam operations, got its uplink service disconnected, the global volume of spam saw a detectable drop overnight. Some researchers say McColo accounted for a third of spam worldwide. Now, all we need is for
people…
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Google has an office in New York, and really wants you to know just
how much better they are than you. With GOOG below $300 and employee options underwater, today's featured commenter quips:
Classmates.com sued for friends not caring about you
Anthony Michaels was told by Classmates.com, the
world's most annoying social network, that his old school buddies might be looking for him. Michaels upgraded and paid the gold membership fee. In exchange, he found out a harsh reality: No one was actually looking for him. Michaels is now taking Classmates.com to court…
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Since
Facebook doesn't quite know how to make money, our commenter of the day, , has a better business model:
Apple kills iPhone app for being too popular
Another one bites the dust. This time, instead of banning a new app,
Apple has denied a music streaming app called CastCatcher from releasing an update, due to "unreasonable volume of traffic." As with the past bans, the developers come out as the folk heroes, but an evil corporate overlord would have helped…
28 people keeps the spammers working hard
A group of computer scientists from UC Berkeley and UC San Diego spent a month earlier this year infiltrating a spammer network and studying its operations. The scientists mimicked the methodologies of the spammers by hijacking computers and using them to send out emails soliciting orders for pharmaceutical products.…
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Aliph, the maker of the Jawbone Bluetooth headset,
dropped half a million on fancy furniture for its offices, then fired 25 of the 75 people whose seats the purchase was meant to warm. Today's featured commenter, , explains why the expenditure was worth it:
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Voters passed Proposition 8, California's gay marriage ban, sparking
calls for protests. Today's featured commenter, , explains the whole big can of worms:
Google's Android takes your conversation too seriously
Purchasers of the first Googlephone, T-Mobile's G1, are already discovering that with great power — root access to your phone operating system! — comes great responsibility. There's an as-yet-unpatched bug: If you type the letters "r-e-b-o-o-t", the phone reboots. A-w-k-w-a-r-d. Oh, crud, I just wrote a shell script. [
MySpace wants to sell MP3 players
Want a MyPod? MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe hints that the social-networking site might sell MySpace-branded MP3 players to make its MySpace Music spinoff a more plausible competitor to Apple's iTunes. Last we checked, this plan did not work for Napster, either. [
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Sprint keeps bleeding dry
Sprint Nextel reported yet another quarterly loss, its fourth in the row. The wireless carrier was $326 million in the red, and also lost 1.1 million subscribers. CEO
Dan Hesse said he wants the company to focus on customer service. Dan, how about spending less time filiming commercials and more time answering calls? [
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Microsofties who want to make money on the Web without the hassle of actually working at Microsoft have been jumping on board Yahoo's sinking ship. Today's best commenter,
longtailwagsthevalley, :
Ex-Broadcom CEO wanted to give himself more jailtime
The political leanings of Broadcom's former CEO, Henry Nicholas III, make for some post-election headscratching.
Proposition 6 was one of the two state ballot measures he had underwritten and supported — to the price tag of $6 million — to increase penalties for gang and drug crimes, even satellite tracking of sex…
