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Yahoo’s Mayer Has Met with Hulu Execs in a Preliminary Look-See at Premium Video Unit
How much is the Silicon Valley Internet giant willing to spend on turbocharging its video prospects?
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Look Out Google Fiber, $35-A-Month Gigabit Internet Comes to Vermont
Heads up Google Fiber: A rural Vermont telephone company might just have your $70 gigabit Internet offer beat.FTC’s Jon Leibowitz Takes Your Privacy Very Seriously: The Full D10 Interview (Video)
A top government regulator talks “privacy by design.”
Not So Scott Free? Yahoo’s Other Big Shareholder — Cap Re — Leaning Toward Supporting Loeb Over Thompson ResuMess.
Is the tenure of Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson — who is now big with the excuses — in trouble if other shareholders start to bolt?
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FCC Proposes $25,000 Fine on Google
The Federal Communications Commission proposed a $25,000 fine on Google Inc., accusing the search giant of deliberately obstructing an investigation into whether the company violated federal rules when its street-mapping service collected and stored data from unencrypted Wi-Fi networks in 2010.Yahoo Sues Facebook for Patent Infringement, Which Social Network Calls “Puzzling” (Including Filing)
In what is either the boldest gamble of its history or the most boneheaded, Yahoo has filed a massive legal attack against the powerful social networking giant for intellectual property violations.
“Perplexed” by U.S. Ownership Rules, Alibaba’s Ma Yellow Lights Yahoo Buying Parade
From “very, very interested” to a case of wanna-be-buyer’s remorse?
DARPA: That’s Mach 20, Baby
The Defense Department’s secret project agency is launching an aircraft today that does 13,000 miles per hour, or 20 times the speed of sound. Sweeeet.
Yahoo’s China Settlement Fails to Stem Its Stock Decline
You would think the settlement of a major dispute would goose the stock of a company, but Yahoo’s deal with its Chinese partner Alibaba Group on Friday did exactly the opposite.
Irony Alert: Microsoft Files Formal Complaint Against Google With EC
Microsoft’s legal eagle Brad Smith didn’t even bother to pretend the software giant’s filing of a formal antitrust complaint against Google with the European Commission wasn’t a wee bit ironic. Wrote Smith in a blog post late last night: “There of course will be some who will point out the irony in today’s filing.” You think?