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When Media Giants Attack! Cease-and-Desist Letter to News Reader Zite Claims All Kinds of Copyright Damage

Kara Swisher in News on March 30, 2011 at 3:24 pm PT

A panoply of big media giants sent a cease-and-desist letter today to Zite, the Apple iPad news reader app. The Washington Post, AP, Gannett, Getty, Time, Dow Jones and many other media organizations were part of the copyright violations action, which you can read all about after the jump.

Microsoft's Yusuf Mehdi Speaks: "Yahoo Has a Fantastic Opportunity"

Kara Swisher in News on August 3, 2009 at 1:12 pm PT

While at Microsoft HQ last week, right after the online advertising and search deal with Yahoo was struck, BoomTown interviewed a passel of Microsoft execs, including Online Audience Business SVP Yusuf Mehdi, who has been a key player in the many–and mostly disastrous–attempts that the software giant has made to form some sort of alliance with Yahoo over the years. While Wall Street threw raspberries at the Silicon Valley icon for the deal, Microsoft got kudos for grabbing a large piece of share that it could use in its ongoing battle with archrival Google. In this video interview with me, Mehdi defended it as a “win-win”–what else is he going to say?–for both Yahoo and Microsoft.