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Yahoo under pressure for alternative to Microsoft
NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO, USA: Yahoo Inc faced growing pressure on Sunday to find an alternative strategy to Microsoft Corp's $47.5 billion takeover offer after the software maker walked away over a disagreement on price.
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TapeOnline Now Offering Sony Tapeless Media and LaCie Hard Drives
TapeOnline, an online leader for blank recording media, adds LaCie hard drives and Sony SxS solid-state memory cards and accessories to their online store. (PRWeb May 5, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/05/prweb913814.htm
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Yahoo CEO on hot seat after rebuffing Microsoft’s $47.5B bid
Mon, May 5, 2008 (12:12 a.m.) Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Jerry Yang has gotten what he wanted: a chance to prove his company is worth more than the $47.5 billion that Microsoft Corp. offered to buy the Internet pioneer.
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China’s Alibaba Falls as Microsoft Abandons Yahoo Bid
Beijing 05/05/08 ( www.emfis.com ) China’s biggest e-commerce company, Alibaba.com Ltd, fell in trading after Microsoft Corp ended its bid to acquire Yahoo! Inc, the largest shareholder in Alibaba’s parent.
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New Guide Offers 10 Secrets to Successful Paid Search Campaigns
With Google reporting a 30% growth in its Paid Search profits for early 2008, the time is right to execute a strong pay-per-click plan. Fathom SEO has released a new Guide detailing 10 tips to successful Paid Search marketing. (PRWeb May 5, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/05/prweb914114.htm
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MyLaundryOnline.com a New Laundry and Social Network That Provides Online Laundry Services
A Los Angeles based internet - web 2.0 company has launched a laundry social network creates a viable business opportunities to laundry clients, vendors, college students and independent house cleaning brokers. (PRWeb May 5, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/05/prweb915054.htm
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Polish Ctrl Bker Filar: 25 BPs Rate Hike Likely In June
WARSAW (Dow Jones)--Poland's central bank Monetary Policy Council, or RPP, should raise its key interest rate 25 basis points to 6% at its June meeting, RPP member Dariusz Filar said Monday.
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Yahoo Shares Tumble After Microsoft Abandons Bid (Update2)
May 5 (Bloomberg) -- Yahoo! Inc. , the Web company that spent three months fighting a takeover by Microsoft Corp. , tumbled in German trading after the software maker scrapped the bid because executives failed to agree on the price.
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Alibaba falls after Microsoft drops bid for Yahoo
Shares in China's top e-commerce firm, Alibaba.com Ltd, slid as much as 5.7 percent on Monday after Microsoft Corp abandoned its bid for Alibaba's key investor, Yahoo Inc.
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Fundraising via Internet almost good as an ATM
Sen. Clinton aides have sought increasingly to shadow rival Sen. Obama's Internet juggernaut, which has raised more than $112 million via the Web.
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Web social networks friendly to identity thieves
Scam artists are taking advantage of a trusting arena to get members to divulge passwords and other information. Michael Maris became an unwitting spammer.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 31st Aug 2007 08:35 UTC, submitted by lomax
"Welcome to the home page of the finstall project , accepted for Google's Summer of Code 2007. This project aims to create a user-friendly graphical installer for FreeBSD & FreeBSD-derived systems.
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Recent Original Stories
Little-known intellectual property agency IP Innovation LLC and its parent Technology Licensing Corporation this week became the latest to claim that Apple had abused a patent they hold.
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Protecting your ID online
Protecting your ID Here are ways to reduce the risk of identity theft on social networks:
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With Yahoo deal's collapse, stymied Microsoft must find new online strategy
With its three-month pursuit of Yahoo at an end, Microsoft is back where it started: far behind Google, the undisputed online-advertising leader.
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Disney online group a creative engine in Seattle
It's a little opportunistic, but when Disney said it was staffing up its Seattle office, I took the chance to finally learn about its low-profile...
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Computers crack anti-spam codes
Are you a human or a computer? Over the Internet, it's getting harder and harder to tell. Some of the common tests used by Web sites to...
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Lessons from the father of venture capital
French politicians often look enviously across the Atlantic at the entrepreneurial successes of the U.S. economy, such as Google Inc., Apple Inc., Intel Corp. and Microsoft Corp. So it is a heavy irony that the man who founded the U.S. venture capital industry, helping to create many multibillion-dollar companies, came from France.
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Alibaba Dives After Microsoft Walks
Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang will no doubt point to value of Asian assets to justify going it alone.
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How to add muscle to passwords
Creating and remembering strong passwords — like backing up our computers' contents — is something many of us know we should...
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New TV service for Snohomish County this summer
EVERETT -- Verizon's push to deliver fast Internet and digital television into homes instead of just traditional phone service will take a big leap forward this summer.
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Pressure's on for Yahoo's CEO Yang
Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Jerry Yang has gotten what he wanted: a chance to prove his company is worth more than the $47.5 billion that Microsoft Corp. had offered to buy the Internet pioneer. Faced with resistance from Yang and the rest of Yahoo's board, Microsoft withdrew its offer over the weekend. Yang is facing a daunting challenge, as he will be pointedly reminded Monday, when ...
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Recent Original Stories
Security tools that work with Windows Vista have failed tests to see if they can detect viruses circulating online. Microsoft's Windows Live OneCare security tool was one of four products that failed independent tests carried out by the Virus Bulletin.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 1st Feb 2007 18:55 UTC, submitted by anonymous
"Fedora 7 Test 1 has been released today. For this particular release, we only did a Desktop spin of the package collection. We are still fine tuning targetted spins of the collection as part of the merger of Core and Extras.
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Scrabble surges back, thanks to upstart Scrabulous
Scrabble, the retro crossword game that surged into pop culture a half-century ago, is back, thanks to Facebook's unauthorized Scrabulous
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