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Valley Buzz: Palm Swings for the Fences at CES, a New Candidate for Yahoo's CEO and Shhhhh! Google Is Cutting Contractors

 
There’s one topic conspicuously under-reported on the tech blogs today and that’s last night’s pre-Consumer Electronics Show keynote by Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer. The headline on AllThingsD’s coverage sums up why: It was a (link)

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