Google Exec Joins Obama Administration: Report

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Andrew McLaughlin, Google’s director of global public policy, is reportedly leaving the search giant to be the deputy chief technology officer for the Obama administration.

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Yahoo will close its Yahoo 360 social-networking site in July.

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Yahoo will close its Yahoo 360 social-networking site in July, something it originally planned to do in early 2008 and later delayed to last year’s second half.

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Yahoo has decided to shut down its long-abandoned Yahoo 360 Degrees blogging Web site completely on July 13.

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Andrew McLaughlin, Google?s head of global public policy, is leaving the company to join the Obama administration, according to two people with knowledge of Mr. McLaughlin?s plans.

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Yahoo first announced it would phase out Yahoo 360 two years ago?but this time the company insists it’s really going to close the social network. In a blog post Friday, Yahoo community manager Melissa Daniels explains that the company had delayed closing Yahoo 360 until it could find a way for members to preserve their data.

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While the world has focused on Google Wave as a mash-up of chat, e-mail, and document sharing, it’s really something else: Google Wave could be the Twitter that everyone really wants. Maybe it’s the Facebook, too.

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Yesterday, BoomTown broke the news that Yahoo’s SVP North American Audience Jeff Dossett was leaving the Internet company after a very short stint, because of personal issues. But, I also noted sources said he was likely to quickly land at a start-up and he has.

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Microsoft hopes Bing, the name of its new search service, evokes the ringing of a bell and eventually becomes a verb, like Xerox and TiVo and, well, Google.

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