March 26, 2008

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March 26, 2008
Google execs: $1 in pay, $13B in stock (Associated Press)

Posted: March 26th, 2008, 1:45pm

Associated Press:
Google execs: $1 in pay, $13B in stock — Giant stakes enrich Brin and Page, but value of their shares decline by billions as company stock falls. — SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Google Inc. co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page each took home their customary $1 annual salary again in 2007 …
Craigslist Scam Cleans Out Oregon Man: Who Should Pay? (Henry Blodget/Silicon Alley Insider)

Posted: March 26th, 2008, 11:20am

Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Craigslist Scam Cleans Out Oregon Man: Who Should Pay? — Here's today's quiz: — If an ad on Craigslist says that someone is giving something away for free, should you be able to take it? If you put an ad on Craigslist saying someone is giving something away for free but he isn't and someone takes it …
Japan: URL's Are Totally Out (cabel.name)

Posted: March 26th, 2008, 10:15am

cabel.name:
Japan: URL's Are Totally Out — If you hadn't heard via Twitter (and why would you?), I just returned from over two weeks of quality time in Japan. A lot of business and business planning, but also a whole lot of fun. The truly watershed event: this time, I had Steve along.
Social Site's New Friends Are Athletes (Tim Arango/New York Times)

Posted: March 26th, 2008, 9:55am

Tim Arango / New York Times:
Social Site's New Friends Are Athletes — Late last year, Pamela Firestone, the mother of Tony Parker, the San Antonio Spurs point guard, went rooting through her home in Paris and dug up a VHS tape of a 9-year-old Tony on a Parisian basketball court with his two brothers.
FriendFeed Launches API - This Should be Interesting (Marshall Kirkpatrick/ReadWriteWeb)

Posted: March 26th, 2008, 6:45am

Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
FriendFeed Launches API - This Should be Interesting — Cross-site activity stream aggregator FriendFeed has answered the loud calls of users and developers and today released the first version of its Application Programming Interface, or API. The FriendFeed experience will now be accessible …
Open source: Microsoft lawyer on patent question (Todd Bishop/Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog)

Posted: March 26th, 2008, 5:45am

Todd Bishop / Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog:
Open source: Microsoft lawyer on patent question — If everything is on schedule, Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith should be concluding his appearance at the Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco right about now — including a full hour of questions from a panel and the audience.
FriendFeed API: Extend and improve FriendFeed (Bret Taylor/FriendFeed Blog)

Posted: March 26th, 2008, 3:25am

Bret Taylor / FriendFeed Blog:
FriendFeed API: Extend and improve FriendFeed — We are very excited to announce the launch of the FriendFeed API, which enables developers to interact with the FriendFeed site programmatically. It's designed to make it possible for anyone to improve FriendFeed or integrate FriendFeed into other applications.
Open Source Software Made Developers Cool. Now It Can Make Them Rich (Daniel Roth/Wired News)

Posted: March 26th, 2008, 3:20am

Daniel Roth / Wired News:
Open Source Software Made Developers Cool. Now It Can Make Them Rich — Last spring, marketer and blogger Hugh MacLeod posted a question on his site: If open source is such a phenomenon, where are all the open source billionaires? His audience wasn't amused.
Microsoft to Raise Yahoo Bid to $34--Citi (Henry Blodget/Silicon Alley Insider)

Posted: March 26th, 2008, 2:00am

Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Microsoft to Raise Yahoo Bid to $34—Citi — Two months later, and we're back where we began: Microsoft (MSFT) bids $31 for Yahoo (YHOO), Yahoo counters with $40, and a price in the mid-$30s should get the deal done. — True, Yahoo had to explore other options.
New York Apple Stores Sold Out Of iPhones (The Huffington Post)

Posted: March 26th, 2008, 1:50am

The Huffington Post:
New York Apple Stores Sold Out Of iPhones — New York may now have three Apple stores, but there's not a single iPhone among them. — Apple Store employees at all three New York locations — the original SoHo store, the 59th Street location, and the most recent addition, on West 14th Street …
Citigroup: Microsoft likely to raise bid for Yahoo (InfoWorld)

Posted: March 26th, 2008, 1:35am

InfoWorld:
Citigroup: Microsoft likely to raise bid for Yahoo — Microsoft will most likely increase its initial $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo, according to a Citigroup Investment Research analyst. — “We believe that a Yahoo sale to Microsoft — at a price higher than the initial $31 [per share] …