Business Wire:
Yahoo! Responds to Carl Icahn’s Intention to Nominate Candidates for Election to Yahoo!’s Board of Directors  —  SUNNYVALE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - News), a leading global Internet company, today sent the following letter in response to Carl Icahn’s announcement regarding …

Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Microsoft Joins Effort for Laptops for Children  —  After a years-long dispute, Microsoft and the computing and education project One Laptop Per Child said Thursday that they had reached an agreement to offer Windows on the organization’s computers.  —  Microsoft long resisted joining …

Steve Lohr / New York Times:
Microsoft Is Joining Low-Cost Laptop Project  —  After years of conflict, Microsoft and the computing and education project One Laptop Per Child, have reached an agreement that will put Windows on the organization’s computers.  —  Microsoft long resisted joining the ambitious project …

Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
BoomTown Decodes Carl Icahn’s Letter to Yahoo!  —  BoomTown’s most favorite part of the Yahoo takeover circus?  —  The dueling letters, of course!  How the lovely practice of missives has fallen out of favor, as soulless emails have grown in use.  —  Well, not in the land of hostile takeovers!

Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Amazon Kindle a $750 Million iPod-Like Business By 2010 (AMZN)  —  The Kindle could contribute 3% of Amazon’s overall revenue in two years, argues Citi analyst Mark Mahaney, who has a born-again relationship with the device.  Combining device and book sales in an iPod/iTunes-like model …

Peter Svensson / Associated Press:
Study: Cox, Comcast Internet subscribers blocked  —  NEW YORK (AP) — Cox Communications appears to be interfering with file-sharing by its Internet subscribers in the same manner that has landed Comcast Corp. in hot water with regulators, according to research obtained by The Associated Press.

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The Social Network Wars Begin In Earnest: Facebook Bans Google Friend Connect  —  Facebook is all about openness and data portability, as long as that doesn’t involve openness or portability of data, it seems.  —  Today they wrote a long 7 paragraph blog post to get a single point across … […]

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
Anatomy of a rumor: The Atom-powered Newton iPhone  —  As Winston Churchill might have put it, an Apple rumor can fly halfway around the world before truth has a chance to get its boots on.  —  Case in point: the iPhone mini-tablet story that broke Wednesday afternoon in Germany.

Charlie Cheever / Facebook Developers:
Thoughts on Privacy  —  As developers, you’re probably curious about the recent initiatives we and other companies in the industry have taken to help you build applications that let users take their information around the web.  We wanted to give you a little more information on how we’re thinking … […]

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Dear Yahoo: You’re Fired  —  As expected, Carl Icahn presented an alternate slate of directors for the upcoming Yahoo shareholder meeting.  The letter to Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock says it all:  —  Carl C. Icahn  —  ICAHN CAPITAL LP  —  767 Fifth Avenue, 47th Floor  —  New York, NY 10153