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Video: Yahoo to Expand Original Video Production and Content Acquisition

Andy Plesser, 10.07.2009

Executive Producer and Founder, Beet.TV

Yahoo has abandoned the quest for the big, broad hit, and is instead focused on reaching particular audiences within news, TV, finance and other areas.

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News Viewers: Fox -- News Users: CNN

Reese Schonfeld, 10.01.2009

Television journalist

The full third quarter cable news ratings are in, and nothing has changed very much. Fox News still has more viewers than CNN and MSNBC combined.

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Google and Amazon: Making Theft and Price-Fixing the Legal Default

Alex Green, 09.28.2009

Independent Bookstore Owner

An agreement between Google, The Authors Guild of America, and the Association of American Publishers has touched off the most vociferous battle between technology companies since the inception of the Internet.

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New Media and Social Change: How Nonprofits Are Using Web-Based Technologies to Reach Their Goals

Josh Nelson, 09.28.2009

Publisher, EnviroKnow

The Hatcher Group set out to examine how a group of nonprofits working on state-level advocacy issues are using new media technologies to promote their agendas.

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Let My Data Go!

Brian Fitzpatrick, 09.27.2009

Google Engineering Manager, The Data Liberation Front

By not locking our users, we force ourselves to focus more on innovation as a means of retaining our users, and we'd love nothing more than to see every web service company follow suit.

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WATCH: Yahoo!'s Carol Bartz: "Big cornerstone of our strategy is video" (VIDEO)

Andy Plesser, 09.24.2009

Executive Producer and Founder, Beet.TV

Video is an essential part of Yahoo's business, CEO Carol Bartz told me yesterday at the company's news conference.

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Search as Dialog

Jan Pedersen, 09.22.2009

Chief Scientist for Core Search, Microsoft

We see Bing as the first step in this long process of transforming search from something which often points you somewhere else to try and find your answer.

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Building Hope: What Yahoo!'s Acquisition of Maktoob.com Means

Faisal Ghori, 10.18.2009

Principal at Middle East Ventures, a strategy consultancy

The acquisition signifies that the Middle East has now for the first time become relevant in the eyes of American Internet giants, and with their attention, the region has become globally relevant for its technology-based entrepreneurship.

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Corporate Boards, Conflict of Interest and Copyright

Alex Green, 10.16.2009

Independent Bookstore Owner

Much about the world we know can be delegated to the barons of tech, but the governance of copyright cannot or we endanger our access to open information and the ownership of our own words.

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Release 0.9: What Should Yahoo! Do?

Esther Dyson, 09.30.2009

Angel Investor and Transparency Nut

Now that Yahoo! has freed itself from its fight with Google, it can return to its roots as a directory company that helped users make sense of the world around them.

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Microsoft, Yahoo Search Ads Deal in Regulatory Purgatory: MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer August 24th 2009

Shelly Palmer, 09.24.2009

President, National Academy Of Television Arts & Sciences, NY

Microsoft and Yahoo's search advertising partnership is currently under review by the Department of Justi...

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Twitter to Provide Real Time Location of Tweets: MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer August 21, 2009

Shelly Palmer, 09.21.2009

President, National Academy Of Television Arts & Sciences, NY

Twitter is set to begin acknowledging the exact location of where tweets come from. The micro-blogging servic...

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How Bing and Twitter Can Save Journalism

Maegan Carberry, 09.03.2009

Online at maegancarberry.com, co-host of Wilshire & Washington

The emergence of Bing and Twitter mark the first formidable competitors to Google, which until now has monopolized the market on search, and thus the diversity of thought in journalism's Internet era.

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Why Washington Needs to Keep Its Eye On the Cloud

Sean Donahue, 09.03.2009

Communications Strategist, Writer and Speaker

Recognizing the power of cloud computing would create jobs, promote innovation and help organizations of all sizes become more competitive.

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Yahoo Leasing Microsoft Technology, Developing New Properties: MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer August 3, 2009

Shelly Palmer, 09.03.2009

President, National Academy Of Television Arts & Sciences, NY

Now that Yahoo is leasing Microsoft search technology, Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz said that the company will focus on developing other properties. Bartz ...

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Striking Value Into the Hearts of Buyers and Sellers Online: $25 Billion More Might Just Do It

Jarvis Coffin, 08.31.2009

CEO & President, Burst Media

Other media are shrinking, therefore Internet advertising should grow. So if there is $25 billion more in ad spending on its way, how will it be accepted and provided for?

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