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Carol Bartz: Yahoo Will 'Kick Ass Again'

Sixteen minutes after Yahoo announced that CFO Blake Jorgensen was leaving, new CEO Carol Bartz published a post on Yahoo's official blog, titled "Getting our house in order." Read >

Yahoo CFO Jorgensen Out
Yahoo CFO Not Fired For Microsoft Search Deal Comments
Microsoft CFO Liddell: Yahoo Deal 'Incredibly Useful', But We'll Go It Alone



Zuckerberg: "We Do Not Own User Data, Users Do"
Still suffering from a brouhaha that erupted when it updated its terms of service a couple weeks ago, Facebook today hosted a conference call for the press so it could explain itself more. Read >

TomTom To Microsoft: Bring It
We think Microsoft should resolve its dispute with Dutch GPS-maker TomTom as soon as possible -- or face an open source community spewing forth venom at every opportunity it can get. We also think a rapid settlement is in TomTom's best interests as well.

But TomTom isn't playing ball.
Read >

How A Newspaper Covers Its Own Demise
Like the way the Titanic band played until its feet got wet, there's something romantic about the way the Rocky Mountain News announced its own demise today -- as headline news. Read >

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Obama Wants To Raise Your Cellphone Bill
One way the U.S. government will try to cut its massive budget deficit: Charging wireless carriers and other spectrum holders fees for the airwaves they use. The president hopes to raise $4.8 billion from those fees over 10 years, RCR Wireless reports. Read >


MetroPCS's Big Year Ahead
Wireless carrier MetroPCS should be a recession winner: It offers all-you-can-talk wireless service as cheap as $30 per month, and sells unlimited everything for $50 a month -- still less than most people spend for basic wireless service from big carriers like AT&T and Verizon. And as cash-pinched people cancel their home land lines, MetroPCS could gain even more. Read >


EA: We Need To Space Out Videogame Releases Across The Year, Like Movies
For videogames, the 2009 holiday season saw a number of innovative, critcially acclaimed titles like Mirror's Edge or Valkyria Chronicles that simply flopped in sales. Along with the recession, Electronic Arts GM Glen Schofield sees a secondary problem: Too many gaming titles come out at the same time, right before the holidays. Read >


Vonage Now Losing Customers
Vonage continues to struggle in the Internet phone business as the cable industry thrives. Vonage missed the Street's fourth quarter revenue expectations and actually lost subscribers, it said today. Read >


The Daily Beast Wants To Kill The Banner Ad
Tina Brown says she wants the Daily Beast's advertising "modules" to be as "strongly and stylishly" designed as the rest of the site. Read >

Game Developer Rips PS3 As Difficult To Work With
Xbox An Unfriendly Place For Lesbians?
Microsoft-NBC Deal Brings Shaun Of The Dead To Xbox
Rocky Mountain News Shuttered

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