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it's Wednesday September seven 2011 I'm Wilson Tang on cnn.com and it's time to get loaded internet media company yahoo has fired its CEO carol bartz according to an email sent by Bart's to yahoo employees she confirmed that she was fired over the phone by Yahoo's board Bart's joined the company more than two years ago after her well-regarded run of technology company Autodesk she was tasked with turning yahoo around after its failed acquisition by Microsoft 444 billion dollars in the interim CFO Tim Morris will be running the company while it looks for its next permanent CEO and explores its strategic options Netflix has always had streaming limitations so that one account couldn't be shared with friends and family unofficially that is in the past users could stream up to three videos at the same time now that the company has moved to higher priced streaming and DVD rental plans it seems Netflix is cracking down on users who share their account users over the Labor Day weekend began discovering that watching concurrent streams will now get an error message Netflix urges customers to upgrade to a twenty-dollar month plan that allows for up to two streams plus two DVDs mailed out Facebook for the iPhone and iPod touch just got a major update to version 3.5 new features include making it easier to share content the ability to tag friends and places in posts new designs for profiles and group walls and privacy controls for sharing also improved our notifications and a number of bug fixes to chat and photos Apple has begun shipping its previously announced 27-inch Thunderbolt displays of stores and retailers this week the new displays as you would expect incorporate Intel's new Thunderbolt port technology and itself has a FaceTime HD camera speakers three USB ports a firewire port gigabit ethernet and a second Thunderbolt port Apple's own online store says that the new displays will ship in two to three weeks TiVo fans can rejoice the company has announced today the arrival of its fortuner TiVo Premiere elite where for tuners users will be able to record up to four programs at the same time on its giant two terabyte drive the premiere elite will hold up to 300 hours of HD programming and is THX certified additionally users will get access to streaming services like Netflix Hulu YouTube blockbuster and Amazon Instant Video the new tivo even adds mocha networking so that users can use their homes existing coax wiring to network the elite the DVR is expected to cost 499 dollars at retail finally the popular community curated site reddit is being spun out from its parent company Conde Nast sort of reddit will now be organized under Conde Nast parent company advance publications the site hopes to go back into start-up mode as it now gets 1.6 billion page views a month up from the 700,000 when it was first acquired by conde nast those are your headlines for today I'm Wilson tank for cnet.com and you've just been loaded