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Ahead of Instagram Video Launch, Twitter Tweaks Facebook by Teasing Vine Features to Come
Spy vs. Spy, video-style!
Ready for the Industrial Internet? GE Announces “Predictivity” Platform, New Partnership With Amazon Web Services.
It’s big data. Really big.
Next: Yahoo Also Eyeing Automated Video App Maker Qwiki in $50 Million Deal
Please Silicon Valley, I want to buy some more.
Yahoo Offer to Buy Contact Startup Xobni Is at a Price of $30M to $40M
Yahoo’s new HR rule: If you can’t hire them, buy their company.
Paperback Version of Jobs Best-Selling Bio to Be Released in Fall, With New Cover Shot of Young Steve
A new look for a new version of the book about tech’s greatest icon.
Viral Video: In Which I Am Impressed by the Jazz Hands of Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer
Sparkle, Internet execs, sparkle!
FISA Request Data Could Soon Be Public, With Google Also in Talks With U.S. Government About More Disclosure
Secretive government process might become a little less secretive.
Sources: Facebook in Talks With Feds to Allow FISA Disclosures
Will a behind-the-scenes effort result in getting more info to the public?
Yahoo’s Head of Middle East and Africa Departs for New Social TV Startup Aimed at Emerging Markets
A new venture is aimed at the growing mobile viewership in the Middle East and Africa.
News Byte
Yahoo Vacs Up Yet Another Startup — Rondee, a Conference Calling Service — And Shuts It Down
Yahoo bought its second company in one day, purchasing enterprise conference call service Rondee after it announced the acquisition of GhostBird Software, an Apple iOS photo app creator, for its Flickr team earlier today. Rondee’s staff will join Yahoo’s Small Business unit, which the company had once considered shutting down. (Every Yahoo division, please line up for your gift of a tiny startup from CEO Marissa Mayer!) According to a post on Rondee’s website, it will start the shutdown of the service and the transfer of its clients to InstantConference by the end of July. Palo Alto, Calif.-based Rondee was founded in 2006. (For anyone who gets this one — perhaps we in the media are not smart enough, as Yahoo execs are fond of saying these days — please send me a note.)Partner Advertisement
