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Microsoft poised to increase Yahoo! offer
Microsoft indicated last night that it was willing to increase its offer for the internet giant Yahoo!, according to US sources, raising hopes that the two will end their three-month stand-off and secure a $45bn takeover deal.
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Microsoft Withdraws Proposal to Acquire Yahoo!
Microsoft Corp. today announced that it has withdrawn its proposal to acquire Yahoo! Inc. .
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance |
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AP News Alert
Microsoft spokesman says the software giant is walking away from its offer to buy out online portal Yahoo
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FDM Group calls in the Mounties to give IT support to banks
Is there any other listed business in the United Kingdom where the board includes a husband and wife as well as a former wife all working together?
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According to a notation tucked into the DOJ's joint statement with Microsoft regarding continued compliance with ...
Thursday showing that, six months after shipping Windows Vista, his company has left more publicly disclosed Vista bugs unpatched than it did with Windows XP.
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Recent Original Stories
"This is partly a story about a company called Apple Computer. It's also partly a story about a fancy new iPod that plays videos as well as music and that could dramatically change the way people entertain themselves.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 20th Mar 2007 22:15 UTC
On the Etoile news blog, Quentin has posted an installation guide for the Etoile desktop environment . "Here are some quick instructions to build and install EtoileFirst you need to build and install latest GNUstep svn version (not the latest release), then you can build and install Etoile svn version too."
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A senior Microsoft executive has promised that its new operating system will be more secure than ever . Jean-Philippe Courtois, president of Microsoft International, said that beefing-up security was one reason behind delays to Windows Vista.
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Recent Original Stories
Microsoft has set November 30 as the release date for Vista (and Office 2007) to business customers and January 30, 2007 as the date for the official launch to consumers and The World At Large.
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Recent Original Stories
The editors of ResExcellence.com , a popular Macintosh website and longtime Mac enthusiasts, have switched to Linux . "I've been making my living as Mac-specific developer for several years now...
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By PAUL GIANNAMORE, Business editor
The mind can play some interesting thoughts when left unrestrained. It happened several times this week. For instance, while waiting for the conference call on the Esmark financials and the potential sale to Essar Steel of India the other day, my computer was diligently in the hold cue.
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URUKNET CUT OFF FROM GOOGLE NEWS AGAIN!
2008-05-03 Google is at it again! On April 24, 2008 Google has stopped indexing Uruknet.info as a news source. We wrote to Google News but we didn't get any reply.
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ON CAMPUS: Superdelegates seek input on how to vote
A member of the YouTube generation, UW-Madison student Awais Khaleel is one of two superdelegates appealing to an Internet audience for guidance on where to pledge his "super " vote. Khaleel and Lauren Wolfe, a graduate of Smith College, created a video for the user-generated site YouTube, telling college students, "we want to make sure our vote belongs to you. " Khaleel and Wolfe are ...
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Cuba logs on to the world of PCs
Desktop computers have gone on sale in Cuba for the first time, thus ending another despised restriction on daily life in the Communist island.
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Bikhchandani elected IAMAI Chairman
Mumbai, May 3 (UNI) Founder and chief executive officer of Info Edge India Limited, Sanjeev Bikhchandani has been unanimously elected Chairman of the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) for 2008-09.
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Friends May Be the Best Guide Through the Noise
New companies are trying to solve a problem that the Internet itself created — gathering the dense jungle of user-generated content across several platforms into one stream.
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Mindtree acquires majority equity interest in Aztecsoft
Bangalore, May 3 (UNI) MindTree Ltd, a global IT and R and D Services Company, has signed a definitive agreement with Malaysia based largest shareholder of Aztecsoft Ltd to acquire 32.57 per cent stake in the Outsourced Product Development (OPD) major.
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Microsoft, Yahoo could reach weekend deal -sources
BOSTON/NEW YORK, May 3 (Reuters) Microsoft Corp and Yahoo Inc are making last-minute efforts to seal a deal before Microsoft takes its Yahoo bid hostile or abandons it altogether, sources familiar with the matter said.
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Business briefs Microsoft raises Yahoo offer
Microsoft Corp. was reportedly in active talks Friday with Yahoo Inc. and had increased its bid for the Web pioneer.
The Sarasota Herald-Tribune |
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Computer-age comes to Cuba
Shoppers gather in Havana malls to gaze for the first time at computers legally on sale
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Happy birthday, dear spam
Spam, not the food product but the Internet nuisance, is having its 30th birthday, though a California computer scientist doesn't seem inclined to celebrate.It was May 30, 1978, that the first unsolicited e-mail ad landed in an Inbox connected to Arpanet -- the Advanced Research Agency Projects network -- a research project that predated the Internet, the San Francisco Chronicle reported ...
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Paperless banking raises fraud fears
FOR those who want to manage their money more effectively, the internet has been an enormous boon. Making financial decisions is infinitely easier than even a decade ago.
The Scotsman: Business |
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Cuba lifts ban on sale of computers to public
CUBA is going all PC. The island's communist government has put desktop computers on sale to the public for the first time, ending a ban on PC sales as another despised re
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Microsoft restarts Yahoo merger talks
AFTER a three-month standoff, Microsoft is said to be back in active merger talks with Yahoo. Steven Ballmer, Microsoft's chief executive, is believed to have lobbied larg
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