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Analysis: Wall Street puzzles over Google’s new direction (Reuters)

Reuters – Google Inc, which revolutionized Internet searches with an easy-to-use website, has itself become an increasingly tricky business to grasp.

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Silver Lake, Microsoft working on new Yahoo stake offer: source (Reuters)

Reuters – A consortium of private equity group Silver Lake, software giant Microsoft Corp and venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz are reworking their bid for a minority stake in Internet company Yahoo Inc, a source familiar with the matter said on Friday.

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Yahoo shuts down The Projector and The Set blogs (Reuters)

Reuters – Yahoo is letting The Projector and The Set flicker out and die, the movie and television blogs acknowledged on Twitter Friday.

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YouTube redesign emphasizes content channels (Reuters)

Reuters – In its ongoing bid to lure TV viewers online, YouTube has redesigned its homepage to emphasize channels.

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YouTube Video Prompts Calls for UC Davis Chancellor’s Resignation (Mashable)

Mashable – The Faculty Association at the University of California, Davis, is calling for the resignation of chancellor Linda Katehi after a YouTube video surfaced showing police pepper spraying passive Occupy Wall Street protesters. “The Chancellor’s authorization of the use of police force to suppress the protests by students and community members speaking out on behalf of our university and public higher education generally represents a gross failure of leadership,” the Davis Faculty Association wrote in a blog post on Saturday. The post goes on to criticize Katehi for “effectively authorizing [the police's] use of excessive force against peaceful UCD student protestors”

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Man accused of celeb hacking to appear in court (AP)

AP – A Florida man is expected to make his first appearance in a California courtroom Tuesday after being charged with hacking into the email accounts of celebrities such as Scarlett Johansson whose nude photos eventually landed on the Internet.

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888 sees strong year as Britons turn to online gaming (Reuters)

Reuters – 888 Holdings Plc expects 2011 earnings to be significantly ahead of current market estimates as British consumers preferred staying back home, watching TV and gambling online amid an economic slowdown.

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Google beats Q3 profit, revenue estimates (Reuters)

Reuters – Google Inc’s third-quarter results trounced Wall Street expectations as good cost controls helped boost the Internet search leader’s profit by about 26 percent.

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Zynga hopes to ward off rivals with games barrage (Reuters)

Reuters – Zynga is betting a new crop of games and a self-run Internet service will help it fend off rivals and reduce its reliance on Facebook as it prepares to mount a hotly anticipated IPO.

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Yahoo readies books for potential buyers -sources (Reuters)

Reuters – Yahoo Inc’s long-time advisers Goldman Sachs Group Inc and Allen & Co are preparing to give potential buyers financial information, in a sign the troubled Internet giant is ready to put itself on the block, sources close to the situation said.

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