Michael Learmonth / AdAge:
Warner Inks Deal to Bring Green Day, Madonna, U2 Back to YouTube  —  Label Also in Talks to Join Vevo, the ‘Hulu for Music’ Initiative  —  NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Warner Music Group has completed a deal with YouTube that will bring back music videos for Green Day, U2, Madonna and […]

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Early Twitter Backer Union Square Sits This One Out  —  Twitter CEO Evan Williams thanked a long list of investors in his blog post today formally announcing his newest funding round.  Not included: New York’s Union Square Ventures, which has been one of the messaging service’s most prominent backers …

Hiroko Tabuchi / New York Times:
Apple’s Shadow Hangs Over Game Console Makers  —  TOKYO — As video game giants like Sony and Microsoft touted their new gizmos at the Tokyo Game Show this week, industry executives had more than the coming holiday sales season on their minds.  —  Apple’s recent foray into video games […]

Chris Kern / The Official Google Blog:
Jump to the information you want right from the search snippets  —  For most search results, Google shows you a few lines of text to give you an idea of what the page is about — we call this a “search snippet.”  Recently, we’ve enhanced the search snippet […]

Richard Whitt / Google Public Policy Blog:
Response to AT&T’s letter to FCC on Google Voice  —  This afternoon AT&T filed a letter with the Federal Communications Commission, alleging that Google Voice is preventing its users from making outbound calls to certain phone numbers with inflated access charges, and asking the Commission to intervene.

Reuters:
AT&T: net neutrality should apply to Web firms too  —  WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - AT&T Inc said any new “net neutrality” rules imposed by U.S. regulators need to apply to Web companies like Google Inc as much as to phone companies to ensure a level playing field.

Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
Yahoo Board Member Maggie Wilderotter Resigns  —  Yahoo (YHOO) board member Maggie Wilderotter will step down at the end of the year, Yahoo announced today in an SEC filing.  —  “On September 23, 2009, Mrs. Maggie Wilderotter notified Yahoo! Inc. (the “Company”) that she intends to resign …

Cecilia Kang / Post I.T.:
AT&T Accuses Google of Violating Telecom Laws; Google Rejects Claims  —  AT&T asked the Federal Communications Commission Friday afternoon to look into Google’s alleged blocking of some phone calls through its Google Voice service, a practice the phone giant called a violation of federal telecommunications laws.

Cecilia Kang / Post I.T.:
AT&T Accuses Google of Violating Telecom Laws  —  AT&T launched a fresh assault against Google this afternoon with a letter filed to the Federal Communications Commission asking the agency to look into alleged violations of rules by the online search giant’s voice aggregation service.

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
AT&T Activates MMS Functionality for U.S. iPhone Users  —  As previously scheduled, AT&T has activated MMS for iPhone 3G and 3GS users in the United States, bringing to an end months of speculation and waiting since software support for the feature was introduced in iPhone OS 3.0 in mid-June.