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Yahoo to offer new mashup tools
News Company plans to release four application program interfaces for photos, calendar, shopping and bookmark sites.
Tags: Web sites, Software engineering/development, .NET, Search, Operations
Visa deals with possible data breach
News Credit card giant says financial institutions have been asked to protect affected customers via fraud monitoring or by reissuing cards.
Tags: Data security, Security
Excite@Home tops 1 million, but challenges remain
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Twitter hits 5 billion tweets
News Twitter hits landmark tweet amid recent explosion of mainstream and celebrity use of the microblogging service.
Tags: Twitter Inc., dot-com, Bay Area, San Francisco, co-founder, valuation
Web video round table sheds light on upcoming problems
News Video executives discuss where Web video is going, and some of the hurdles facing it in 2009.
Tags: Advertising, Adobe Systems Inc., broadcasting, Video, Storage, Internet Video, Bay Area, Advertisement, Ma, HD
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey invested in Foursquare
News Ex-CEO and current chairman is one of the startup's undisclosed angel investors, sources tell CNET News.
Tags: Web 2.0, Industry Veteran, Bay Area, New York, payment, co-founder, knowledge, SEC filing, Web 2.0
Report: Yahoo CEO search narrowing
News Yahoo is close to narrowing the field of candidates down to a few, with former Vodafone Group CEO Arun Sarin among the mix, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.
Tags: Web sites, Domain names, PDA phones, India, Yahoo! Inc., InfoSpace Inc., Bay Area, CTIA, Washington, CEO
Clearwire to bring WiMax to 10 more markets
News Company will add 10 WiMax markets starting September 1 in its effort to blanket the United States with 4G wireless broadband service.
Tags: Mobile platforms/communications, Wireless Broadband, Wireless, Broadband, Cable, Clearwire Corp., 3G, 4G, WiMAX, Mobile platforms/communications
Report: Offshoring only one drain on tech jobs
News Study of San Francisco Bay Area finds unstoppable forces leech jobs from mature sectors--but related trends create new ones.
Tags: Offshoring
Silicon Valley given call to arms
News Policy-makers, security experts, and network protection companies told Silicon Valley executives Thursday that it's time to concentrate on new, high-tech weapons against terrorism.
HP board meets amid probe scandal
News Board meets as controversy widens over the tactics used in a probe into media leaks, News.com has learned.
Tags: Legal, HR policies and procedures
Net firm offers "free" voice mail
News Joining a growing number of companies pairing advertising with "free" consumer products, eVoice Wednesday will introduce a home answering service that allows access to voice mail over the phone or the Internet--with a catch.
Online grocer hits $100 million home run
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Outages strike Yahoo services
News Yahoo was hit with service interruptions yesterday, with people complaining they were locked out of areas including email accounts, instant messaging and the Yahoo Finance site.
Apple to open first overseas store
News The company is planning to launch 20 stores in the next 12 months, including a large one in Tokyo's Ginza shopping district early next year.
