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Viacom Loses To YouTube In Landmark Copyright Case

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HP partners with Yahoo for targeted ads

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Yahoo Divides Jerusalem

Yahoo uses iPhone weather application to make a political statement.

A few weeks ago, many iPhone users, including HonestReporting's Managing Editor, noticed that something had changed on their pre-installed weather application. The data for Jerusalem, as supplied by Yahoo, simply stopped updating. But this was no bug in the system. A new search for Jerusalem now gives users a choice between West Jerusalem in Israel and East Jerusalem located in the West Bank.
We asked internet expert Dr. Andre Oboler to investigate and his technical analysis can be found here. He determined that Yahoo takes its data from the Weather Channel's own fixed location weather stations. Even for Palestinian cities in the West Bank, the nearest weather station is located in Jerusalem. Yahoo, however, has independently created the new East Jerusalem location. (See the Mere Rhetoric blog for more on how Yahoo has politicized its weather locations.)

According to Oboler:

Yahoo has clearly decided to artificially divide Jerusalem. It's contorting its systems in all sorts of strange ways to do it. The question we must ask is what right does Yahoo have to use the data from an Israeli weather station in order to divide Jerusalem? This is deliberate dishonesty. According to its own data, the West Bank does not contain a place called Jerusalem. The weather station is in Israel. This is nothing more than a manipulation of data to advance political propaganda.

This is a deliberate attempt by a large multinational internet corporation to play politics in the Middle East. Yahoo should not be surprised if its political activism comes at a cost. Not just from supporters of Israel but from consumers generally. We as consumers never gave internet companies the right to formulate foreign policy or (as Facebook recently found) privacy policies. We elect governments to do these things. Yahoo, a corporate entity, should learn its place and stick to it.

While this issue may seem unimportant compared to recent events in Israel, this is just one example of the creeping delegitimization of Israel's rights in its own capital city. Yahoo should not be allowed to unilaterally divide Jerusalem.Yahoo uses iPhone weather application to make a political statement. A few weeks... more

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Facebook News Television June 9, 2010

Yahoo! Embrace's Facebook import personal updates from Facebook. Sarah Palin... more

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BP buys Google, Yahoo oil spill search terms

As BP continues to try to stop the oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico, the energy... more

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BP buys 'oil spill' sponsored links for search engines

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AOL Isn't Negotiating A Search Deal, It's Negotiating An Eventual Sale To Microsoft

AOL, which currently outsources search to Google, began negotiating a new search deal last week, CEO Tim Armstrong said yesterday at the D8 Conference out in California.

Tim is just being a coy. AOL isn't negotiating a search deal. It's negotiating a sale.

A source familiar with Tim and AOL's strategic thinking suggests that a likely outcome of these negotiations will be AOL's sale to Microsoft.

And even if this informed speculation proves false, it's a fact that whoever does sign AOL to a long term search deal will have the inside track to an eventual acquisition.

Good. We've long held that the field of portals will eventually consolidate down from three major players – AOL, MSN, and Yahoo – to two. It's almost happened a couple times.

Readers will shudder to recall that a couple years ago, it looked like the merger would be Yahoo-MSN, but then Yahoo's Jerry Yang asked Microsoft to pay more than $31 per share. Whoops.

Then, in Fall 2008, AOL and Yahoo got close enough to a merger that the heads of each company's media properties spent a weekend together hashing out what properties would go and which would stay after the deal.

Now, the most likely merger will be MSN-AOL.

Our source suggests that Microsoft will want to wait till AOL stops turning in horrible numbers each quarter, but there are, in fact, a couple factors giving the deal momentum already:

* Microsoft will pay anything to inch its way up in search market share.
* Likewise, Google will do anything to defend a deal from Microsoft.
* So what can Microsoft do that Google won't? Offer to buy AOL. Google is run by engineers who sincerely loathe the content-creation business.
* Getting AOL's search queries AND defeating Google in big negotiation is easily worth the $2 billion or $3 billion it would take for Microsoft to buy AOL.
* Secondarily, merging AOL into MSN (or MSN into AOL) actually makes some sense. AOL and MSN have overlapping sales and engineering teams, so a merger would create all kinds of overlapping costs that could be cut without sacrificing much in the way of production.AOL, which currently outsources search to Google, began negotiating a new search deal... more

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Carol Bartz tells Mike Arrington to f@#$ off

The title does a nice job but the background of the article is pretty good.

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Inside Google? Really? Seems More Like Outside

Consumer Watchdog, a non-profit organization whose mission is to fight on the behalf... more

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Best Post Election Comic Relief

The election deal making could take a while to sort itself out, it's reported... more

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I Told Everybody This Was A Scam 15 Years Ago!

These damn "Anti-Virus" scams ARE VIRUSES!!! They use up memory and CPU,... more

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Collabo Arts Paint’s Yahoo! – 3 Renowned Artists Collaborate and Paint an Abstract Vision of Yahoo! and the Internet

SUNNYVALE, CA. - Apr 20, 2010 -- Creativity. Innovation. Collaboration. These... more

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News: Taliban retakes U.S. forward operating base

This video and story from Al Jazeera talks about how the Taliban have retaken a... more

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News: Sniffer dogs detect explosives near a British patrol in Afghanistan (video)

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News: "The Golden Hour"--Medevac crew evacuates wounded from Afghanistan

The first hour after a soldier is wounded is known as "The Golden Hour" and... more

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Yahoo Meme: Out of Ideas?

Hello friends and neighbors. Today's Current Tech video is all about creativity... more

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RIP GeoCities

This is a sad day for Web 1.09. GeoCities, the once ubiquitous web host, is shutting... more

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News: Extremely intense video: Members of 173rd Airborne transport wounded Afghan worker while under heavy fire from Taliban

This video is extremely intense and shows members of the 173rd Airborne transporting a... more

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News: Bagram AFB hit by rockets just after President Obama leaves.

Just hours after President Obama left Bagram AFB in Afghanistan, the Taliban fired... more

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New video: President Obama meets with troops in Afghanistan

To the boisterous cheers of over 2,500 military personnel, President Obama made a... more

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