Patti Hart, the Yahoo director who headed the search committee that selected Scott Thompson as CEO, was supposed to be one of the board members staying on during a makeover. Instead, Hart, whose own credentials were questioned when activist shareholder Daniel Loeb unveiled Thompson’s claims of a degree he didn’t have, is leaving. The official reason : her own board asked her not to serve again.

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Yahoo search committee head leaves board as CEO inquiry starts

Facebook has a plan to squeeze more ad dollars out of ecommerce sites and anyone else selling products on the web. It’s quietly testing a new version of its Offers coupons that can be redeemed at online stores, not just at physical shops . Sources clued us in and Facebook has now confirmed with me that users will see Offers in the news feed, ads, and Sponsored Stories that feature a promo code or special link to click through for a discount on off-site purchases.

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Facebook Testing “Offers” Discounts For Ecommerce Sites, Not Just Brick+Mortar

Late last month Telefónica brought its Wayra accelerator to Germany ; now rival operator Deutsche Telekom has followed suit with hub:raum , an incubator that it hopes can attract talent away from its competitor — not least because unlike Wayra it will be sited not in Munich but in the much trendier capital, Berlin. Launched at the NEXT conference in Berlin on Tuesday, hub:raum is similar to Wayra (and most incubators or accelerators) in that it gives the selected startups access to mentors and lets them maintain “entrepreneurial independence.” The money on offer here is a lot more, though: up to €300,000 ($390,000) in seed funding — for a “minority interest” — rather than Wayra’s €50,000 maximum. Of course, the flipside is that it’s tougher to get in: hub:raum will only pick 10-15 companies each year, whereas Wayra picks up to 20

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Deutsche Telekom and General Assembly set out Berlin plans

Content owners have been hoping that France’s controversial HADOPI scheme for disconnecting file-sharers might provide a model for the rest of the world. Now, the fate of the plan is in confusion (like much else in France) after last week’s election that brought Socialist Francois Hollande to power. The French law with the funny acronym went into effect last year

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Is Berlin the new Silicon Valley? This rather reductionist question was the subject of a nonetheless worthwhile debate between Passion Capital’s Stefan Glaenzer and Brooklyn Bridge Ventures’ Charlie O’Donnell at the NEXT conference in Berlin on Tuesday.

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Forget London v Berlin: Euro startups must join forces

Five months after it was announced, Comcast’s Xfinity TV subs finally have access to a key part of the TV Everywhere promise — WatchESPN, the ESPN gateway to live streaming sports and news. The authenticated app — iOS only for now, Android “coming soon” — and WatchESPN.com should be accessible using the Xfinity TV login. Comcast and ESPN say the same content eventually will be available through XfinityTV.com.

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WatchESPN goes live for Comcast Xfinifty subs

Europeans are debating the relative merits of “austerity” versus “growth”, in light of France’s socialist election victory and downbeat economic indicators. But technology investment funds operated by several national and regional governments have largely survived the chop

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Nevermind austerity; European startups get public funds

An online news service for workers in England’s newly digital media region of the north-west has suspended activities after five years, after its recent merger has ended in acrimony.

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Manchester media war – bitter dispute freezes How-Do

Scott Thompson has apologized to his fellow Yahoos — but it’s not the kind of apologia that closes the books. No explanation (yet) of how the Yahoo CEO wound up in a situation where his educational credentials are distracting folks inside and out, though, only a mea culpa for causing a fuss. In a staff e-mail Monday posted by AllThingsD, Thompson stressed that a board investigation is ongoing, said he was cooperating and added: In the meantime, I want you to know how deeply I regret how this issue has affected the company and all of you

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Yahoo CEO apologizes — for being a distraction

It’s official: Ericsson is now building every major LTE network in the U.S. T-Mobile USA revealed today that its current 3G and HSPA+ equipment suppliers , Ericsson and Nokia Siemens Networks would handle its new $4 billion LTE rollout , deploying 37,000 next-generation base stations that will support an eventual upgrade to LTE-Advanced. The announcement , made at the start of the CTIA Wireless show in New Orleans, isn’t that big of a surprise given that the relationship between carrier and network vendor is pretty tight

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Ericsson, NSN keep their T-Mobile jobs for LTE build