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six long years have paid off... couldn't happen to a nicer guy! - Jason Calacanis from Bookmarklet

I agree. Extremely chuffed to be working, sort of, with him again. - Jemima Kiss

Yahoo is in danger of being edged out of a landmark advertising deal with Bebo as the social networking site plans to begin using technology developed by AOL, its new owner. Source: FT - Jemima Kiss

Somebody has it in for Erik Möller, the deputy director of Wikimedia. Source: Wired - Jemima Kiss

Yahoo Inc has introduced a software development tool that lets outside parties create customised views of Yahoo Web search results. Source: Reuters - Jemima Kiss

Tesco has said that it will have all 3m of its tracks on mp3 by the end of the year though, as well as downloads of TV, films and games. Source: E-Consultancy - Jemima Kiss

Web sites have an edge over traditional media by offering advertisers the ability to target consumers in a cost-efficient and highly focused way, said the association's president, Pam Horan. Source: Reuters - Jemima Kiss

The national newspaper is seeking an agency to help develop its mobile site and has been in discussions with potential partners for several months. Source: New Media Age - Jemima Kiss

The problem with FriendFeed’s behaviour is that it fragments the conversation further. Source: Mashable - Jemima Kiss

ZYB, a mobile social network, has been acquired by Vodafone for €31.5 million, or about $50m. Source: TechCrunch - Jemima Kiss

Yahoo's chairman, Roy Bostock, has staunchly defended the company against a potential boardroom coup being led by corporate raider Carl Icahn, accusing him of "significantly misunderstanding the facts" of Microsoft's rebuffed takeover proposal. Source: Gu - Jemima Kiss

NDS has seen off a $1bn lawsuit alleging piracy and hacking relating to the encryption system for US satellite company Dish Network, with a US jury yesterday awarding just $1,000 in damages. Source: Guardian - Jemima Kiss

Orange will sell the handset in Austria, Belgium, the Dominican Republic, Egypt, Jordan, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Switzerland and African markets later this year. Source: Associated Press - Jemima Kiss

One of the UK's leading broadband firms claims that take-up of the BBC's iPlayer broadband TV service has slowed significantly after meteoric traffic growth in the early months of 2008. Source: Guardian - Jemima Kiss

The world's second largest marketing services group, has struck a deal with Yahoo to enable its agencies to improve their digital display advertising buying operation. Source: Guardian - Jemima Kiss

How the lovely practice of missives has fallen out of favor, as soulless emails have grown in use. Source: AllThingsD - Jemima Kiss

The executive vice-president hopes third-party developers can help the web giant position itself at the heart of the internet. Source: Guardian - Jemima Kiss

You might want to hurry browsing through these, though; from our experience, Google Maps mashups tend to die out almost as fast as they appear. Source: Mashable - Jemima Kiss

CBS is delving deeper into web content with a new partnership with EQAL, the company behind lonelygirl15 and the now “retired” KateModern. Source: Mashable - Jemima Kiss

iStockphoto moved beyond images last year with the inclusion of video for its stock media site, and today, it’s looking to move even further beyond images with the inclusion of audio tracks. Source: Mashable - Jemima Kiss

Signposts to the appearance, tone and tenor of journalistic development across the web in the years to come will be set out later today when the winners of Knight News Challenge 2008 will be announced at the Editor & Publisher Interactive Media Conference - Jemima Kiss

Kangaroo, the internet TV joint venture between BBC Worldwide, ITV and Channel 4, is set to launch this autumn. Source: Guardian - Jemima Kiss

Players of The Sims 2 will soon be able to add Ikea furniture to their virtual homes as part of a marketing deal between the Swedish company and Electronic Arts, the computer game's producer. Source: Guardian - Jemima Kiss

Record labels are losing their battle with digital piracy as the number of people who regularly download songs legally falls back, research will claim today. Source: Guardian - Jemima Kiss

The holy grail of mobile computing is the prospect of a cheap laptop small enough to forget about when you are carrying it around and light enough not to make you look like a golf caddy lugging around someone else's clubs. Source: Guardian - Jemima Kiss

Billionaire investor Carl Icahn is launching a proxy contest to unseat Yahoo Inc.'s board of directors, according to a person close to the matter, a move aimed at pressuring the Internet company to reach out to Microsoft Corp. to restart sale discussions. - Jemima Kiss

Guardian.co.uk needs to rethink its “challenging” business model if it is ever to survive on its own without the printed paper, according to its head of editorial development, Neil McIntosh. Source: Press Gazette - Jemima Kiss

While it looked as if Facebook might have rebounded quickly from its Beacon debacle last fall, Fortune contends the revolution is steadily losing steam. Source: paidContent - Jemima Kiss

The Kindle, Amazon’s ugly but useful ebook reader that launched in November 2007, may be a burgeoning hit, says Citigroup Analyst Mark Mahaney. Source: TechCrunch - Jemima Kiss

Search site Ask.com will announce on Thursday a deal to buy Lexico, home to popular reference Web sites Dictionary.com and Thesaurus.com, a move that will expand its audience by 11%. Source: Reuters - Jemima Kiss

Marc Andreessen doesn't fear Google - even though the search giant unveiled a service that's poised to put the competitive squeeze on his startup, Ning. Source: Wired - Jemima Kiss