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In what some might consider to be an overdue move, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel is out: co-founder Jerry Yang replaces him as CEO, and Semel becomes a non-executive Chairman. Susan Decker, former Executive Vice President and Head of Advertiser and Publisher Group, has become Yahoo’s President, according to a release that naturally sidesteps Yahoo’s [...]

Fliva is a new widget creation tool, currently in private beta. This service takes some cues from polling sites, but adds a bit of its own twist. There are questions pre-loaded in Fliva for you to insert your own answers. Only the questions you’d like to include in your Fliva widget will be displayed, and [...]

So you want to view Alexa rankings in your browser - and even send data to Alexa - but you don’t want to run Internet Explorer in order to make the toolbar work? A new tool sent to us today does just that for Firefox users: SmartToolbar, which isn’t an official Alexa product, gives [...]

MySpace is reportedly furthering its discussions with eBay for a potential partnership that would provide exclusive rights for eBay to offer commerce options to MySpace users via PayPal. Read our original post here. Much controversy arose from the initial talks between MySpace and eBay, as Google’s long standing relationship with MySpace was put into jeopardy [...]

It’s time to toss the old tube to the dumpster. Well, not if you have one of those 47” plasma ones, but…you know what we mean. The future of media is the Internet, and television is no exception. Instead of browsing through the channels with your remote, you could be browsing through the free online [...]

Michael Moore’s latest documentary “Sicko” was available on Google Video in its full length form, which is over two hour long, but has since been removed. You can still catch at least one clip of the film here. “Sicko” is a film about 45 million people in the United States that lack health care, and [...]

MyStrands, the social recommendation music site, has raised $25 million in Series B funding. The round was led by Spanish media mogul Antonio Asensio, owner and CEO of of Grupo Zeta, one of the largest media groups in Spain. Existing investors Debaeque and Sequel are backing this round as well. This brings the total [...]

Google Labs has a wide variety of products in development that “aren’t quite ready for primetime” in their own words. From new search innovations to public transit guides, music playlists and even mapping Mars, we’ve taken an in-depth look at what Google’s got brewing. SEARCH Google is experimenting with several new ways to enhance their core [...]

Search engine Quintura, which offers a more visual, keyword-based way of viewing search results, will announce funding today from Mangrove Capital Partners, an early investor in Skype. Mangrove provided seed funding in late 2006 (see Quintura-Mangrove), but now they’ve followed up with a Series A round of “several million”. There have been a few developments [...]

A simpleton like me might have assumed that MySpace Video would become the distribution method for Fox clips: not so, as Brightcove has landed the deal to be the online video platform for Fox Entertainment Group. Fox Broadcast Net, FX and Speed are already using ad-supported Brightcove players, and allowing you to embed that [...]