Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Time Warner Nixes Jonathan Miller’s Appointment To Yahoo Board.  Pokes Potential AOL Buyer In the Eye.  —  The Yahoo shareholder meeting is going on right now, but already not everything is going according to plan.  Yahoo was able to avoid a showdown today with activist investor Carl Icahn by agreeing to […]

Jim Goldman / Tech Check with Jim Goldman:
Yahoo Shareholder Meeting: What’s Happening  —  1:20 pm EST: Far fewer people showed up to the Yahoo  —  In the Yahoo meeting which started promptly at 1 pm EDT, and I’m struck by the big party the company is hosting.  —  And very few showed up.  —  […]

Stephen Lawson / IDG News Service:
In-flight cell call ban advances in Congress  —  I like it!  —  A bill that would stifle in-flight cellular calls despite emerging technologies that finally make them feasible is headed for the U.S. House of Representatives.  —  The proposed Halting Airplane Noise to Give Us Peace (HANG UP) … […]

DigiTimes:
Nvidia to quit chipset business  —  Nvidia has decided to throw in the towel and quit the chipset business, sources close to the situation at one of Taiwan’s top motherboard makers have revealed.  As the story is told, Nvidia called a meeting earlier this week with its motherboard partners …

Bobbie Johnson / Guardian:
Jerry Yang prepares for showdown with Yahoo investors  —  Yahoo chief executive Jerry Yang faces another test of his leadership today as he prepares for a showdown with angry investors at the company’s annual general meeting.  —  He will have to quell a rebellion from shareholders who believe …

Amazon.com:
Amazon.com to Acquire AbeBooks  —  SEATTLE & VICTORIA, British Columbia—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Aug. 1, 2008—Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), today announced that, subject to closing conditions, it has reached an agreement to acquire AbeBooks.  AbeBooks is an online marketplace for books …

Yahoo! Search Blog:
Yelp, Yahoo! Local & LinkedIn SearchMonkey Apps Now Default-On  —  Last month we opened up the Yahoo! Search Gallery to showcase all of the useful SearchMonkey applications that have been built by developers, site owners and Yahoo!.  Today, we’re turning on a few of those applications for all users.

Declan McCullagh / The Iconoclast:
FCC formally rules Comcast’s throttling of BitTorrent was illegal  —  Federal regulators voted 3-2 on Friday to declare that Comcast’s throttling of BitTorrent traffic last year was unlawful, marking the first time that any U.S. broadband provider has ever been found to violate Net neutrality rules.

Chris Pirillo:
PayPal Denies $450 of Unauthorized Charges  —  On my birthday last Saturday, I received a “present” I wish I never had.  Due to some lax security policies that Apple has thankfully since updated, someone was able to use my birth date to obtain my iTunes password, and get into my account.

Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Time For Apple To Get Serious About Apple TV (AAPL)  —  Apple executives continue to refer to their Apple TV set-top box business as a “hobby” — which is a polite word for “failure.”  Time for that to change: If Steve Jobs wants to make a serious run at […]