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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg talks up Facebook Connect but little else during a question and answer session with reporters. The rub is that services such as Connect, Google's Friend Connect and MySpace's Data Availability initiatives are the future of social networks.
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NebuAd hearings bring a lashing for Embarq, a Kansas-based ISP, from members of a House subcommittee investigating NebuAd's data gathering and Web privacy policies.
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The Taliban embraces technology to promote its exploits and lambast Afghan and Western enemies, according to a think tank.
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Prosecutors are expected to ask that Google executives stand trial on charges of defamation and violation of privacy over a video on the company's Italian-language site.
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The Open Web Foundation launches at OSCON with a focus on keeping open-source community efforts open and unfettered.The effort is backed by individuals and companies such as Facebook, Google and MySpace.
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Any Yahoo acquisition plans Microsoft might have entertained are now dead, says Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. Microsoft is moving on and looking to invest more in search, a business Ballmer categorizes as a "two-horse race" between Microsoft and Google.
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Facebook announces its Connect external socialization service, a new developer Web site, international translation of the Platform and other programs. Not announced: the mythical Facebook payment processing platform.
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Yahoo sees an 18 percent dip in second-quarter earnings as it heads into its Aug. 1 annual meeting, where shareholders could press executives to do a deal with Microsoft. Yahoo's results come less than a week after Google's Q2 results disappointed Wall Street.
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CFO Blake Jorgensen says Yahoo is not changing its outlook for fiscal 2008 despite a 19 percent revenue drop in the second quarter. With the latest failed Microsoft acquisition bid behind it, CEO Jerry Yang says Yahoo will continue to look at "transactions and/or financial options."
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As an alternative to its pay-per-user pricing model, Coghead jumps into the utility pricing game by offering its platform as a service software for $50 per two access points. The pricing change could help the company keep up with Salesforce.com, Bungee and Google.
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Google erred on the conservative side by offering its new Android SDK to only the 50 winners of the Android Developer Challenge. My guess is that Google's Android mission will now be full disclosure of the SDK and its overall open-source development practice.
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The sweeping redesign by Facebook is aimed at giving users of the social networking site more control and better security. Facebook user profiles also will be more dynamic.
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Yahoo and Carl Icahn comes to terms on a deal that will give Icahn and two others of his choosing seats on Yahoo's board. Yahoo will nominate 8 of it current directors for re-election as it seeks to placate shareholders put off by its stubborn resistance to Microsoft's advances.
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Yahoo will appoint activist investor Carl Icahn and two of his nominees to its board, settling a proxy battle and making an immediate transaction with Microsoft less likely. The settlement came just 11 days before Yahoo's Aug. 1 annual shareholders meeting, at which Icahn had originally sought to replace the entire board with his own nominees and oust Yahoo Chief Executive Jerry Yang.
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Rebel shareholder, Eric Jackson, will on Monday, July 21, ask Yahoo to accept a mixed board of directors from company nominees and a rival line up backed by Carl Icahn. Jackson, founder of Ironfire Capital and leader of Yahoo Plan B, said he would encourage the group to elect five Yahoo directors and four Icahn nominees.
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The biggest name in search hasn't done so well in the corporate arena, but the Google Mini appliance's new pricing and more robust capabilities will be appealing to businesses.
Review: Web application penetration-testing tool veterans WebInspect and AppScan show they still have the right security stuff.
With all the popular and free search tools in the news lately, one would think that a product from a commercial company without the name recognition of a Google or a Yahoo would be a tough sell.
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