For the past decade, Google has raked in billions of dollars from its search advertising revenues. In recent years, Google has moved aggressively into display ads and even ousted Yahoo as the biggest display ad player in the U.S. AOL, Microsoft and Yahoo are also in the online advertising game, and until today have been in competition with one another. But asAllThingsD reports, a new pact has been formed and the three companies are going to start selling ad inventory on each others’ sites to take on Google and growing ad networks like ValueClick, 24/7 Real Media and Tribal Fusion....

Today was Léo Apotheker’s last day as the CEO of HP, as he has now beenreplaced by Meg Whitman, the former head of eBay. But Apotheker couldn’t resist sending one last message to employees at the company. We’ve been sent the letter by an employee and there are some interesting portions for sure. It is notable that Apotheker uses the term ‘resignation’ to describe how he was ousted. We’ve heard that it was much more along the lines of a firing than a mutual decision and that he actually had no idea that the board was planning to replace him....

We have all been in mourning since the passing of former Apple CEO Steve Jobs this week, and we’ve read a lot of thetweets and thoughts everyone has had on the subject. The Next Web has heard from several developers on the topic of how Steve Jobs affected their lives, career, and companies. Without iTunes and the App store, some of them may never have had the chance to succeed in the way that they have....

As the global economy sits in depression it’s little surprise that people in countries around the world are turning to protesting on the streets. Now there’s a mobile app designed to help them. Sukeycomes out of the UK and is a set of applications designed to keep protesters protected and informed. The service, which goes live tomorrow morning to tie in with an organised student protest in London, runs in mobile web browsers and promises to display a wide range of information about the protest, including live updates about any trouble that might be brewing between the police and protesters along the route....

App notifications are killing your team’s productivity Your teams are stretched thin, and apps are part of the problem Ding dong, your focus is dead You’re multitasking for the sake of multitasking — it’s not quicker, it’s not more efficient, and it’s definitely not more productive. Your attention is being spread so thin that you can barely maintain it, and all you are really doing is… managing apps. Your task list ends up looking like this:...