"In an exclusive interview with CIO magazine, TMG CIO Paul Cheesbrough told us why [he's shifting 1400 Telegraph staff from Microsoft Office to Google Apps]."

Steve Balmer: "there will be no media consumption left in 10 years that is not delivered over an IP network. There will be no newspapers, no magazines that are delivered in paper form."

"BLEWS uses political blogs to categorize news stories according to their reception in the conservative and liberal blogospheres. It visualizes information about which stories are linked to from conservative and liberal blogs, and it indicates the level o

"AT&T Inc., News Corp. (owner of Dow Jones & Co., publisher of The Wall Street Journal) and Time Warner Inc. — all considered candidates to do such a deal — aren’t preparing rival bids for Yahoo, according to people familiar with the matter."

"a spokesman for the News Corporation said Sunday night that it was not preparing a bid, and other frequently named prospective suitors like Time Warner, AT&T and Comcast have not begun work on offers, people close to them said."

Scott Karp: "The main problem with Microsoft and Yahoo, looking forward, is that they are not web-native companies — they rely on centralized control models, rather than distributed network models"

"Microsoft faces the same sort of challenges from the internet as the newspaper industry: if it puts its product online it risks cannibalising its own business." But of course, Google is doing just that…

"In most industries, a merger of two major companies would cause everyone else to panic over a decline in competition. But in the case of the online advertising market …"

Handelsblatt’s Thomas Knüwer notes that a Yahoo-Microsoft merger would have a signifcant hurdle to overcome in the European Commission’s anti-trust authorities (in German).

"Together we can unleash new levels of innovation, delivering enhanced user experiences, breakthroughs in search, and new advertising platform capabilities."

BBC News Interactive’s launch editor Mike Smartt explains the process of getting the site running 10 years ago. And has a mockup of an "MSBBC" logo that might have been following talks with Microsoft.

The significance, down near the bottom: "delivering localised adverts according to a consumers’ position is seen as a key part of advertising’s future. …"

Danny Sullivan: "Right now, none of the major search engines are supporting ACAP. If you were to use ACAP without ensuring that standard robots.txt or meta robots commands were also included, you’d fail to properly block search engines."

Jon Fine: "There’s now a case to be made for Google (and, for that matter, Google’s competitors) to buy up content players. Or, rather, there will, be, once their monumental growth slows down and the competition for traffic becomes more costly than it