paidContent Quick Hits 05.06.2010

View Of Silicon Valley

»  Why Silicon Valley tech giants are acquiring chip designers. [VentureBeat]

»  Reasons why Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) should spend some of its ad budget on improving its products. [Search Engine Land]

»  MySpace (NYSE: NWS) Chief Security Officer Hemanshu Nigam is leaving his job of four years to start a web security/privacy advisory firm. [CNET]

»  The Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iPhone-Gizmodo saga: News organizations request to see the search warrant affidavit used to raid the home of Gizmodo Editor Jason Chen. [USA Today]

»  Indie gaming producer Wolfire is selling a bundle of games to donate proceeds to charity. [ZeroPaid]

»  Why Mark Zuckerberg has resisted takeover offers, detailed in an excerpt from The Facebook Effect: the Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World, the new book from Fortune contributor David Kirkpatrick. [Fortune]

»  Question-and-answer social network Formspring.me allows teens to take bullying to a whole new level. [NYT]

»  Billionaire Ron Burkle is suing Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) for creating a “slanted playing field” in favor of the controlling Riggio family. B&N hits back, calling the complaint a “meritless lawsuit to advance [Burkle’s] own self-serving agenda.” [AP]

»  Yelp extends its footprint beyond the U.S., Canada, England and Ireland to France, to launch its first non-English Yelp site. [Bits]

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