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Yahoo and activist investor Carl Icahn have reached a settlement in their bitter battle over control of the company. The two sides have agreed to keep most of the current Yahoo board on the ballot for re-election and to create three new board positions: one for Icahn and two for executives of his recommendation. The decision comes less than two weeks before Yahoo’s shareholder meeting, at which Icahn had previously hoped to replace the company’s entire leadership with a team of his own choosing. Now, the two sides will become one as they work to figure out their financial future.

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Icahn Jimmies Into Yahoo Boardroom

Viacom and Google have agreed to keep the personal information of YouTube users private, even as Viacom gears up for the next stage of litigation in its copyright infringement lawsuit against Google. Google will provide user data to Viacom, but redact information that can be used to make personal identifications. The agreement was forged after Judge Louis Stanton ruled that Google had to hand over the personal viewing records of YouTube visitors — including login IDs, the videos they watched, and the time they watched them.

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Google, Viacom Hammer Out Privacy Terms in YouTube Case

Much has been made of Barack Obama’s public comments on whether or not he would choose to accept public financing for his general election campaign and Republican presidential nominee John McCain’s reactions to those comments. However, the legal and political issues are far more complex than the general press is reporting, said Justin Buchler, assistant professor of political science at Case Western Reserve University. One thing, though, does appear clear: Obama’s Internet fundraising success matters.

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Squeezing the Internet for Political Cash, Part 2: The March to November

Small and medium-sized businesses are demanding the same level of quality and functionality for their IT Web infrastructure as larger enterprise IT organizations. Many SMB organizations are implementing their own application delivery optimization solutions; however, others prefer to outsource their application delivery optimization infrastructure to managed hosting providers. By outsourcing, customers are able to avoid the headaches associated with 24/7 monitoring, troubleshooting faults and assuring that they have the most up-to-date gear.

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A No-Brainer for SMBs

The Internet is the greatest technical development of the 20th century, and its open competition model has been the envy of other market sectors. Internet advances are being crushed by monopolistic carriers who are more concerned with censoring content than delivering services to customers. Those disparate statements sum up the positions of the two sides squaring off in an increasingly contentious debate about the Internet’s future. On one side of the debate are ISPs, which are trying to build viable business models for delivering their services in a rapidly evolving marketplace.

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The Net Neutrality Debate: Still Sizzling