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Friday, April 4, 2008 Daily News Tracker
Welcome to the Friday, April 4, 2008 Daily News Tracker, leading off with information taken from Google's public policy blog about its plans for dealing with the spectrum sold in the recently concluded FCC auction, plus news about a new meeting Yahoo and Microsoft held this week


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new post indicator2:13 pm on April 4, 2008 (utc 0)

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An Auction That Google Was Content to Lose / Reveals Spectrum Auction Strategy

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/04/technology/04auction.html
http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2008/04/cone-of-silence-finally-lifts-on.html
http://mashable.com/2008/04/04/google-we-bluffed/
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSN0330322520080403
http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/04/google_we_bid_i.html
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/04/google-reveals-spectrum-auction-strategy/
http://www.webmasterworld.com/goog/3618875.htm

Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang: gray areas make foreign business hard

http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSN0348043720080403

Microsoft, Yahoo Held Meetings at Yahoo Headquarters

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120728254600289107.html

Marketing gold could be found in Web video

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/techinvestor/industry/2008-04-03-web-video-advertising_N.htm

Google Investor News: A Superior Specialized News Aggregator Not Owned by Google

http://mashable.com/2008/04/03/google-investor-news/

Yahoo may lose vice president of platform engineering Eric Boyd

http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9910379-7.htm
http://valleywag.com/375351/former-mit-blackjack-whiz-eric-boyd-cashes-in-his-chips-at-yahoo

New Fox Interactive Group Moves Into Yahoo Center In Santa Monica

http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-new-fox-interactive-group-moves-into-yahoo-center-in-santa-monica/

Google AdWords Trademark Policy Revision (UK and Ireland)

https://adwords.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=92877&hl=en_GB
http://www.ppcblog.co.uk/google-adwords/google-changing-trademark-policy-in-the-uk/

Quote/unquote - Google removes exact phrase match if no results

http://www.webmasterworld.com/google/3618530.htm
http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-04-03-n55.html
http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/016781.html

Internet Providers Quietly Test Expanded Tracking of Web Use to Target Advertising

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/03/AR2008040304052.html

WEB / OTHER

Three Record Companies Team Up With MySpace for Music Web Site

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/04/technology/04myspace.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/technology/newsid_7329000/7329281.stm
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120723678802486609.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSWEN477820080403
http://www.reuters.com/article/blogBurst/technology?type=technologyNews&w1=B7ovpm21IaDoL40ZFnNfGe&w2=B82x9Ksc5UNVzDjpITcIrRbi&src=blogBurst_technologyNews&bbPostId=Cz1qovTMRwphlB5hZ4Gp9JwGqBCZfM7JaFKXkB12I7fBfxVlB&bbParentWidgetId=B82x9Ksc5UNVzDjpITcIrRbi
http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2008/04/04/myspace-music-what-the-experts-think/
http://money.cnn.com/2008/04/03/technology/myspace_music.fortune/index.htm
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/services/2008-04-03-myspace-music_N.htm
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080403-myspace-music-announces-downloads-sans-drm-free-streaming.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/04/myspace_music_coup/
http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/social_network/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=OIZ313FFA1FFAQSNDLOSKHSCJUNN2JVN?articleID=207001705
http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-interview-chris-de-wolfe-ceo-myspace-this-is-about-us-and-music-labels/
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article3678203.ece
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/03/AR2008040301854.html

CTIA Wireless 2008 News / Mobile Phone Industry Takes Aim at the iPhone

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/04/technology/04phone.html
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,144101/article.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/03/AR2008040302703.html

Execs speak out on regulations at U.S. wireless show

http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSN0319430320080403

Fox Interactive Media Restructuring: Memo From Peter Levinsohn: Optimizing Monetization

http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-fox-interactive-media-restructuring-memo-from-peter-levinsohn/
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/798d222e-0218-11dd-9388-000077b07658.html
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120728763009889459.html
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/03/fox-interactive-media-to-miss-revenue-targets-reorganization-coming/

Craigslist Poised For $81M Revenues In ‘08; Could Top $100M: Report; Facebooks vs Craigslist

http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-craigslist-poised-for-81-million-in-08-revenue-could-top-100-million-re/
(related - new Craigslist blog) http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/craigslist_blog_rss_feed.php

Former Vanity Fair editor to launch aggregator Web site with IAC

http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSN0419412620080404

Verizon and AT&T to use spectrum for high-speed services: report

http://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSN0432923920080404
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120728418087789277.html

Norwegian ISPs refuse to finger P2P users for movie biz

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080403-norwegian-isps-refuse-to-finger-p2p-users-for-movie-biz.html

Free Mobile411 launches on 4/11

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-12261_7-9911425-51.html

Facebook Must Defend Code-Theft Lawsuit, Appeals Court Rules

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601204&sid=ariFOMVAXrZw

OpenID Status Check: A Guide to Getting and Using Your OpenID

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/openid_status_check_a_guide_to_openid.php

Yahoo's Zimbra Expands Mobile E-mail Availability to All Java-enabled Devices

http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=303198

 


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