Here’s the latest action:
Apple’s lawyers send Valleywag “proof” that the tablet exists — Valleywag was offering lots of cash to anyone who could prove that Apple’s rumored tablet computer exists. Then it got a letter from an Apple attorney asking Valleywag to call off the search because Apple has “maintained the types of information and things you are soliciting … in strict confidence.” The fact that Apple is up in arms about this suggests that there’s a tablet whose existence Apple wants to hide.
Lalawag’s Sean Percival joins MySpacee — Percival, who created the Los Angeles tech gossip blog and has also written a book on MySpace marketing, will serve as the social network’s director of content socialization. I’m not exactly sure what he’ll be doing at MySpace, but the company says he will “help lead the charge to create compelling social experiences for MySpace users by developing new and alternative ways to leverage social media activities.”
Microsoft’ veteran Bill Veghte leaves — Veghte has been with the software giant for 19 years, starting out as an associate product manager on Office and most recently heading the business side of Windows. He’s moving on because he wants to run a business “from end to end,” and Microsoft doesn’t have room at the top for him.
Intel says AMD exec would never buy AMD chips — In its latest response to an antitrust investigation spurred by competitor AMD, Intel included a statement from Henri Richard, the company’s highest sales executive at the time, saying, “I certainly would never buy AMD for a personal system, if I wasn’t working here.”
RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser quits — Glaser wanted to leave the Internet media company that he founded through a gradual transition, says Business Insider, but the board pushed him out sooner.
Yahoo rolling out search improvements next week — The company says the features will give advertisers more control and transparency. Yahoo also claims the continued improvements prove that it still cares about search, despite outsourcing its core search to Microsoft’s Bing.
NetHope seeking $25,000 to bring Internet connectivity to relief agencies in Haiti — The nonprofit says it wants to give agencies the Internet access they need to coordinate the delivery of food, water, healthcare, and information in the aftermath of this week’s earthquake.
iPhone app maker tries to bribe his way onto tech blogs — VentureBeat actually received the same offer of $300 for a mention of Jon Atherton’s Wobble 2 app, but we didn’t even bother to respond. TechCrunch’s Robin Wauters, on the other hand, told him to buzz off, at which point Atherton upped the offer to $1,000.
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