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YouTube Refuses “The Godfather” After All

Peter Kafka in Media on August 24, 2011 at 2:17 pm PT

A weird mid-August mystery gets a tiny bit weirder: “This account has been suspended due to a violation of YouTube’s policy prohibiting content designed to impersonate another person or user.”

MicroHoo: Stop Them Before They Publicly Negotiate Again!

Kara Swisher in News on March 9, 2009 at 2:59 pm PT

Oh dear, one endless, screwed-up global airline ride without Internet connectivity and when I finally manage to get online (looking right at the Spanish Steps in Rome–sweeeeet!), BoomTown finds that a new round o’ MicroHoo is apparently on again. (In the immortal words of Michael Corleone–see video below–in the otherwise awful “Godfather: Part III”: “Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!”) Except, judging from exactly how loud the loudmouthed chatter from a trio of Microsoft execs has become about wanting to make a search deal with Yahoo, it’s actually not.