Wall Street Journal:
Officials Step Up Net-Neutrality Efforts  —  Broadband companies are headed for a clash with Washington over whether consumers have a right to get as much as they want from the Internet, as fast as they want it, without paying extra for the privilege.

Jessica E. Vascellaro / Wall Street Journal:
News Corp. Enters Yahoo Fray  —  News Corp. and Yahoo Inc. are in discussions about combining MySpace and other News Corp.-owned online properties with Yahoo, according to people familiar with the matter.  —  The discussions are aimed at helping Yahoo fend off Microsoft Corp’s unsolicited takeover offer … […]

Stefanie Olsen / CNET News.com:
Yahoo faces shareholder suit, in talks with News Corp.  —  The bad news continues for Yahoo.  This week, as the Internet company cuts an estimated 1,100 jobs, it’s also been hit with a shareholder lawsuit for refusing Microsoft’s $44.6 billion buyout offer.

RushLimbaugh.com:
El Rushbo’s Appeal to Steve Jobs  —  BEGIN TRANSCRIPT  —  RUSH: I can’t believe you would say that.  For those of you watching on the Dittocam today at RushLimbaugh.com, you’ve probably seen me pretty animated here during the break talking to the broadcast engineer and my trusty aide-de-camp …

Anne Broache / CNET News.com:
New Net neutrality bill frowns on ISP ‘favoritism’  —  Comcast, AT&T, and other network operators would be expected to refrain from “unreasonable discriminatory favoritism” of content on their pipes under a recrafted Net neutrality proposal introduced Wednesday in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Official Google Blog:
What if… you could have your doodle on the Google homepage for a day?  —  Posted by Marissa Mayer, Vice President of Search Products & User Experience, and Dennis Hwang, Webmaster Manager and Chief Google Doodler  —  Today, we’re excited to announce the Doodle 4 Google competition.

Jason Chen / Gizmodo:
Apple TV 2.0 Review  —  Ever since our Apple TV 1.0 review decided that Apple’s thrust into the living room wasn’t pantsworthy, we’ve been waiting for them to step up and make a revision that was.  Apple TV 2.0 is their answer.  (Let’s stop calling it Take 2, please!)

Walt Mossberg / Mossblog:
Super-Slim ThinkPad Sneak Peek  —  Only a month or so after Apple announced its MacBook Air laptop, which it calls the world’s thinnest laptop, Lenovo is about to spring its own super-skinny machine: the ThinkPad X300.  Here’s a sneak peek.  My full review will appear after I have fully tested … […]

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Bebo: $1 billion Acquisition “Definitely Happening” Says Source  —  Following up to our post last week talking about a possible acquisition of social network site Bebo: A high level source has told us that Bebo has been in discussions via their investment bank, Allen & Co. …

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Bebo: $1 billion Acquisition “Definitely Happened” Says Source  —  Following up to our post last week talking about a possible acquisition of social network site Bebo: A high level source has told us that Bebo has been in discussions via their investment bank, Allen & Co. …