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Fred / A VC:
We Need A New Path To Liquidity — Watching all these machinations between Microsoft, Yahoo!, Google, AOL, News Corp/MySpace, and their ilk makes me sick. They are playing around with Internet assets like they are toys. And meanwhile the services we have come to rely on like Flickr …
Discussion: CNET News.com, Ars Technica, STARTUP CHATTER, Epicenter, Tech Sanity Check, Information Arbitrage, Charles Hudson's Weblog, Furrier.org, Micronet's blog, Deal Journal, RealityCrunch, SmoothSpan Blog, InformationWeek, broadstuff, BuzzMachine, Between the Lines, PE Hub Blog, Alice Hill's Real Tech News, Internet Evolution, Outside the Lines, Salon, GigaOM, WebProNews, Tech Trader Daily, Techdirt and Paul Kedrosky's …
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Charles Cooper / CNET News.com: Clemenza was right
Anders Bylund / Ars Technica: Yahoo's new, bold anti-Microsoft plan: clusterfoooock!
Donna Bogatin / STARTUP CHATTER: NO Deals: Etsy, Twitter, Disqus Lose Google, Yahoo, Microsoft Sales
Betsy Schiffman / Epicenter: Reports: Microsoft, News Corp. Team Up in Unholy Alliance
Roger Ehrenberg / Information Arbitrage: On A New Path to Liquidity — Fred Wilson just put …
Charles Hudson / Charles Hudson's Weblog: Reactions to Fred Wilson's Post on Liquidity - We Have a Price Gap
Heidi Moore / Deal Journal: Yahoo and the AOL Feint?
Rick Diculous / RealityCrunch: Step 1 On Path To Liquidity - Make Stuff People Buy
J. Nicholas Hoover / InformationWeek: Yahoo's Latest Last Stand
Alan Patrick / broadstuff: NO SUCH THING AS A FREE (LIQUID) LUNCH
Dan Primack / PE Hub Blog: VC Post of the Year
Michael Santo / Alice Hill's Real Tech News: Punch and Counter-Punch in Microsoft / Yahoo! Battle: News Corp. and AOL Involved
Nicole Ferraro / Internet Evolution: Yahoo Moves: Strategic or Insane?
Farhad Manjoo / Salon: Good vs. Evil? Yahoo, Google and AOL vs. Microsoft and News Corp.
Om Malik / GigaOM: Google's AOL Stake Down By Half?
David A. Utter / WebProNews: News Corp, AOL Play Role In Yahoo Drama
Michael Masnick / Techdirt: Can Yahoo, Microsoft, Google, AOL And News Corp Sit Down And Just …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Goes Scorched Earth — What a day. I can't say neither side is throwing punches any longer in the epic fight over what's left of Yahoo. Microsoft and Yahoo are done, for the most part, with sternly worded letters. — Yesterday Yahoo made two announcements/leaks.
Discussion: Tech Trader Daily, Silicon Alley Insider, TG Daily, Deal Journal, IT News Digest, Traffick, Texas Startup Blog, BloggingStocks, Search Engine Roundtable, Search Engine Land, BuzzMachine and Technology news
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Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily: An Alternative For MSFT: Buy AOL and MySpace
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider: MySpace-MSN-Yahoo? No Thanks (And Why Does MSFT Need NWS To Raise Bid?)
Mark Raby / TG Daily: Yahoo opens up as acquisition target
Stephen Grocer / Deal Journal: Afternoon Reading: The Sound and the Fury at Yahoo
Andy Moon / IT News Digest: Yahoo is trying to fend off the Microsoft deal as more players enter the picture
Andrew Goodman / Traffick: Yahoo-AOL “Surgical Merger” Not as Crazy as It Sounds
Alexander Muse / Texas Startup Blog: How to prevent your investors from selling!
Douglas McIntyre / BloggingStocks: News Corp (NWS) steps into Yahoo! (YHOO) deal
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Roundtable: Yahoo Messing With Microsoft, Google, AOL & Shareholders or Messing With Themselves?
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land: News Corp, Google, AOL, “MicroHoo” The Movie Enters A Surreal, Climactic Sequence
Yi-Wyn Yen / Technology news: Yahoo and AOL in deal talks
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / HipMojo.com:
There is an Alternative Path to Liquidity, VCs just ignore it — Fred Wilson asks a very good question: … Here's what I think: — The major problem entrepreneurs face is knowing that the IPO market isn't an option. They also know that their companies aren't necessarily IPO-worthy.
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Nicholas Carlson / Valleywag: Fred Wilson: VC needs “a new path to liquidity,” the 100-word version
Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News.com:In Yahoo-Microsoft buyout brawl, a flurry of punches
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Rafe Needleman / Webware.com: Microsoft-Yahoo-Google-AOL? See News.com for the whole story
Joseph Weisenthal / paidContent.org:Google-Yahoo-Microsoft: Analysts React To The Latest Twists
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Nicholas Carlson / Valleywag: Wall Street reacts to news of rival Yahoo bids
Aaron Task / Tech Ticker: YHOO-AOL: Small Bandage for Big Wound
Kara Swisher / BoomTown:MicroHoo: Jesus Is Coming, Look Busy
Discussion: Microsoft Watch, Tech Tracks, Silicon Alley Insider, Deal Journal, Zoli's Blog and Digital Daily
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Joe Wilcox / Microsoft Watch: Microsoft Shoots for Outer MySpace
Benjamin J. Romano / Tech Tracks: Analyst: Microsoft acquisition of Yahoo still ‘most likely outcome’
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider: Jerry Strikes Back, Part 2: Yahoo-AOL May Announce Merger Next Week*
Stephen Grocer / Deal Journal: Deals of the Day: The Microsoft-News Corp.-Yahoo-AOL-Google Deal
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily: MSFT/YHOO/AOL/ NWS/WTF? — When Jerry Yang said Yahoo's …
Hugh Macleod / gapingvoid:
WHY I DELETED MY TWITTER ACCOUNT — It's no big deal. I liked Twitter. But I found it too easy. — I think my time would be better spent drawing cartoons and writing books. — That's just how I feel.
Discussion: mathewingram.com/work, The Social Web, Deep Jive Interests, Connecting the Dots, TechCrunch, SYNTAGMA, Changing Way, /Message and Life On the Wicked Stage
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Steve O'Hear / The Social Web: Fickr user revolt; Why I deleted my twitter account
Steve Borsch / Connecting the Dots: We'll miss you Hugh....
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch: The Decline And Fall of Western Civilization Part III: The Twitter Years
John Evans / SYNTAGMA: The Gadarene rush from Twitter
Andrew / Changing Way: Twitter: Last Year's Thing?
Stowe Boyd / /Message: Hugh MacLeod Commits Twittercide
Warner Crocker / Life On the Wicked Stage: There's a gapingvoid on Twitter
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John Markoff / New York Times:
Microsoft Introduces Tool for Avoiding Traffic Jams — SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft on Thursday plans to introduce a Web-based service for driving directions that incorporates complex software models to help users avoid traffic jams. — The new service's software technology, called Clearflow …
Discussion: Good Morning Silicon Valley, Search Engine Land, Download Squad, John Cook's Venture Blog, Electronista, Guardian Unlimited, LiveSide, Gear Diary, Mashable!, localmobilesearch.net, Switched, p2pnet, WinBeta, jkOnTheRun, All Points Blog, AppScout and Slashdot
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John Murrell / Good Morning Silicon Valley: And 880 is jammed after the crash of another driver trying …
Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land: Four Year Effort Culiminates In “ClearFlow” Traffic On Microsoft Live Search Maps
Brad Linder / Download Squad: Avoid traffic with Windows Live Maps
Jack Schofield / Guardian Unlimited: Artificial Intelligence to route round traffic jams
Kip Kniskern / LiveSide: New version of Live Search Maps today, NY Times reveals
Wayne Schulz / Gear Diary: Microsoft Introduces ClearFlow - Directions Based On Traffic Flow Predictions
Paul Glazowski / Mashable!: Microsoft Implements ‘Clearflow’ Traffic Artificial Intelligence in Live Maps
Greg Sterling / localmobilesearch.net: Microsoft Seeks Routing Edge with ‘ClearFlow’
Adena Schutzberg / All Points Blog: Microsoft Enhances Traffic Modeling on Live.com
Brian Heater / AppScout: Microsoft Tackles Traffic With Clearflow
Andrew Wallenstein / Hollywood Reporter:
Blockbuster eyes streaming to TVs — Apple TV is getting some competition from Blockbuster. — The home video giant is developing a set-top device for streaming films directly to TV sets and is expected to announce the offering sometime this month. — Blockbuster declined comment …
Discussion: Podcasting News, CNET News.com, TechCrunch, CrunchGear, last100, Zatz Not Funny!, paidContent.org, MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer, CinemaTech, Gadget Lab, Engadget, Silicon Alley Insider, Gizmodo and Hacking NetFlix
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James Lewin / Podcasting News: Blockbuster Working On Apple TV-Killer
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch: Blockbuster Goes All Vudu With Plans For Its Own Set-Top Box
Doug Aamoth / CrunchGear: Blockbuster set to announce streaming set-top box
Steve O'Hear / last100: Blockbuster to launch set-top box?
Dave Zatz / Zatz Not Funny!: Blockbuster: Yet Another Set-Top Box?
Rafat Ali / paidContent.org: Blockbuster Working on Direct-To-TV Streaming Device; Similar To Netflix
Shelly Palmer / MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer: 2008 04-10 MediaBytes: Yahoo …
Scott Kirsner / CinemaTech: One more set-top box, this one from Blockbuster
Charlie Sorrel / Gadget Lab: Blockbuster Plans Movie-Streaming Set-Top Box
Thomas Ricker / Engadget: Blockbuster announcing streaming set-top box this month?
Michael Learmonth / Silicon Alley Insider: Report: Blockbuster (BBI) Wants Into The Box Business, Too
Mark Wilson / Gizmodo: Blockbuster Announcing a Media Streamer This Month?
MacTalk News:
Australian iPhone Release Info Given to Resellers by Apple Australia — Rumours have been rampant for months since the launch of the iPhone in the USA back mid-2007 regarding Australia's chance to taste the iPhone. There have been many dates and leaks of false info, so much so that some people …
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Chris Foresman / Infinite Loop: Rumors rumble about unlocked 3G iPhones headed to Australia
Will Park / IntoMobile: Will Australia get the 3G iPhone in June?
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Richard Felton / TG Daily:Apple 's 3G iPhone to be priced from $399
Discussion: One More Thing, Digital Daily, Silicon Alley Insider, DSLreports, IntoMobile, The Boy Genius Report, CrunchGear, MacRumors, Engadget, O'Grady's PowerPage and I4U News
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Tom Krazit / One More Thing: Thinner 3G iPhones planned for WWDC?
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily: iPhone 3G: Impossibly Thin (Just Like Your Wallet After Visiting the Apple Store)
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider: Apple 3G iPhone To Have GPS, Broadcom Involved (BRCM)—Report*
Will Park / IntoMobile: O2 down-throttles 3G users to 128kbps …
Zach Epstein / The Boy Genius Report: 3G iPhone Rumor Firehose Continues; $399 Starting Price, WWDC Launch
John Biggs / CrunchGear: 3G iPhone to cost $400
Nilay Patel / Engadget: 3G iPhone rumors building up steam
Chris Barylick / O'Grady's PowerPage: Rumor: Next-Gen iPhone to Feature Similar Prices, Slimmer Design …
Luigi Lugmayr / I4U News: New 3G iPhone Rumors
Chris Mills / Opera Labs:
Opera Mini for Android — Introduction — This article takes a look at one of Opera's latest and greatest projects - the creation of an Opera Mini version that will run on Google's Android open mobile development platform. Over the course of the article, we'll explain why we created it …
Discussion: InfoWorld, The Register, Webware.com, mocoNews.net, IntoMobile and localmobilesearch.net
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Bill Ray / The Register: Opera tunes itself for Android
Jessica Dolcourt / Webware.com: Opera Mini preview for Google Android
Tricia Duryee / mocoNews.net: Opera's Mobile Browser May Find A Home On Android
Stefan Constantinescu / IntoMobile: Opera Mini ported to Google's Android
Greg Sterling / localmobilesearch.net: Opera Develops Mini Browser for Android
Andrew Shotland / Local SEO Guide:
Grayboxx Gets Darker - Sells to Bay Advisor — Bob Chandra, CEO of Grayboxx, a local search start-up, just informed me that the company is selling its IP to Bay Advisor. Grayboxx launched last year with a lot of industry interest in their “Preference Scoring” algorithm.
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Greg Sterling / Screenwerk: Grayboxx Sells Assets, Shuts Down
Eric Lempel / PlayStation.Blog:
Firmware (v.2.30) Details and Store Walkthrough — Hey Everyone! We know you're all patiently waiting for the next PS3 firmware update, ver. 2.30, which includes the revamped PLAYSTATION Store. The good news is that it's coming soon, and you can now see how the new user interface will look in this video demo featuring Grace Chen.
Discussion: PC World, Crave, GameCyte, Dan's Tech-n-Stuff Weblog, Destructoid, Joystiq, Opposable Thumbs, Engadget, Kotaku and Engadget HD
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Matthew Moskovciak / Crave: PS3 to get DTS-HD Master Audio decoding, new PlayStation store
Jesse Henning / GameCyte: Gaudeat Emptor: PLAYSTATION Store Gets a Facelift
Dan / Dan's Tech-n-Stuff Weblog: PS3 firmware v2.30 coming soon, DTS-HD MA support, updated PS Store
Samit Sarkar / Destructoid: Details on sleek new PS Store & firmware v2.30
Ludwig Kietzmann / Joystiq: Revamped PlayStation Store goes live April 15 [updated]
Mike Fahey / Kotaku: The New PlayStation Store In Action
Richard Lawler / Engadget HD: PS3 firmware engineers interviewed, DTS-HD MA support on the way
Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News.com:
Yahoo's largest investor doubles down — Yahoo's largest institutional investor nearly doubled its stake in the Internet search pioneer, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday. — Capital World Investors increased its Yahoo stake to 10.1 percent …
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Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: Yahoo's Biggest Investor, Capital World Investors, Double's Stake In Company
Justin Mann / TechSpot: Yahoo's largest investor doubles shares
AppleInsider:
Filing: Apple conceptualized smart MVNO system ahead of iPhone — In the years and months leading up to the release of its iPhone handset, Apple Inc. considered forming its own mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) system which would interface with multiple primary wireless carriers …
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com:
FCC greenlights text message emergency alert system — The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved a plan on Thursday to team up with wireless carriers for emergency text message alerts. — Cellular service providers can opt into the new system, called the Commercial Mobile Alert System …
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
mediaFORGE Launches Interactive Widget Ads — mediaFORGE has launched a new interactive ad platform that marries banner ads and widgets. — mediaFORGE's widget focused offering adds fully customizable widgets as a rollover to traditional ads. As visitors roll over the ad …
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Allen Stern / CenterNetworks: MediaForge Launches Social Marketing Widgets
Kristen Nicole / Mashable!: mediaFORGE Launches Widget Ads that Run on AIR Too

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