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Icahn Throws Haymaker At Yahoo Board

Billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn published a letter he submitted to Yahoo chairman Roy Bostock, officially confirming his intent to challenge Yahoo's board.

Buyout The Best Sites, Beat Google

Mark Cuban suggested Yahoo or Microsoft could payoff the top five sites for each of the top 25,000 queries on Google, have those sites leave the Google index for good, and bring Google's normal traffic for those sites into the rival fold.

Overstock Dumps NY Affiliates Over Sales Tax

While Amazon plans to fight New York's new law that requires it to collect sales tax on online purchases, Overstock chose to kick out its New York affiliates to avoid that collection duty.

Icahn May Move To Replace Yahoo's Board

Billionaire investor Carl Icahn made his intentions known after acquiring some 50 million shares of Yahoo stock: he's going to wage the proxy fight that Microsoft chose not to conduct.

CBS Mobilizes A LonelyGirl

CBS plans to do mobile and online entertainment with EQAL, the team behind the lonelygirl15 YouTube phenomenon.

Netvibes Shares Feeds With ReadBurner

Users of the available everywhere desktop service Netvibes gained the ability to share items of interest with others; it's plugged into ReadBurner as well, which led us to ask, "What's that?"

Google Tweaking Speeds Up Gmail

The "Loading..." message may never go away completely, but engineers at Google made some Gmail improvements that should diminish its on-screen time.

Carl Icahn, Yahoo's New Bogeyman

Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang's successful rebuff of Microsoft's takeover bid may be a short-lived victory, as legendary investor Carl Icahn may be itching for a proxy fight.

Mobile Browser Opera Mini Gains Speed

The incremental update of Opera Mini to version 4.1 gave the little browser faster operation and a few extra features.

StumbleUpon Records More Video Providers

The StumbleVideos section of StumbleUpon gained in content with the addition of several new content partners.