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Wall Street seen lower after Microsoft drops Yahoo bid
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Stock index futures pointed to a weaker opening on Monday on Wall Street with Yahoo Inc in focus after Microsoft Corp walked away from its $47.5 billion bid for the Internet company.
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Yahoo may face lawsuit flood after talks collapse
Yahoo Inc likely faces a flood of shareholder lawsuits for rejecting a $47.5 billion takeover bid from Microsoft Corp, even if investors find holding the company responsible to be an uphill battle.
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60 SECONDS WITH MARK EMERY BOLLES
It's easy to have sex on the Internet. Is it as easy to find work there?No. It's easier to have sex. Why is that?Most people just don't know how to use the Internet. They think it's going to be some kind of miracle worker, and it's not. Most of the...
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Waverly Burglary
Two teenagers from Athens are facing felony burglary charges after stealing a laptop.
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Yahoo CEO facing possible rebellion after spurning Microsoft
Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Jerry Yang is convinced that the company he started in a Silicon Valley trailer 14 years ago is worth more than the $47.5 billion that Microsoft Corp. had offered for the Internet pioneer.
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Microsoft and Yahoo may be working things out
Reports say that Microsoft and Yahoo have intensified their merger talks last Friday, although a deal is far from done.
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Cancelled Microsoft Yahoo Deal Round-Up
Ever since Microsoft cancelled their bid for Yahoo on Saturday articles and analyses of the implications spring up in huge masses on blogs and major news outlets. Looks like many journalists did not have Sunday off. The whole topic is of course a bone...
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Castro makes good on promise; Cubans line up for computers
IT SEEMS THAT Raul Castro has made good on his promise to let the Cuban people gorge themselves on all things electrical, with home computers going on sale in Cuba for the first time ever this Saturday.
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Investors eye Yahoo's alternatives to Microsoft
Yahoo faced growing pressure on Sunday to find an alternative strategy to Microsoft Corp's $47.5 billion (24.1 billion pound) takeover offer after the software maker walked away over a disagreement on price.
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Neotrope Selected to Provide Internet Marketing Solutions for Creative Commercial Financing Firm, Lease With Crystal
Neotrope®, a leading advertising, PR, and Internet Marketing firm established 1983, today announced it has been chosen by a cutting edge creative commercial finance company, Lease With Crystal , to provide promotion and brand development for their company and Website.
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Wall Street seen lower after Microsoft drops Yahoo bid
FRANKFURT - Stock index futures pointed to a weaker opening on Monday on Wall Street with Yahoo Inc in focus after Microsoft Corp walked away from its $47.5 billion bid for the Internet company.
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Wall Street seen lower after Microsoft drops Yahoo bid
Stock index futures pointed to a weaker opening on Monday on Wall Street with Yahoo Inc in focus after Microsoft Corp walked away from its $47.5 billion bid for the Internet company.
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Comp keyboards dirtier than toilet
A study by British consumer magazine "Which? Computing" asked a microbiologist to examine 33 keyboards in a typical London office, a toilet seat and a toilet door handle, for bugs generally found in unhygienic places.
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Laptop battery shortage set to ease
But 2008 laptop sales will suffer A global shortage of lithium-ion laptop PC batteries should clear up in the third quarter of 2008, a major battery maker said late last week. But the shortage will still affect laptop sales.
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The plot thickens...
The Ginwala Commission set up to inquire into the suspension of National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) head Vusi Pikoli said on Saturday it was aware that Pikoli was allegedly being blackmailed by a hacker.
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Yangon fights primitive conditions after cyclone
Residents of Burma's biggest city lit candles Monday, lined up to buy water and hacked their way through trees felled in a cyclone that killed more than 350 people, destroyed thousands of homes and caused widespread power cuts.
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Victorious Yahoo CEO now will have to walk the talk
Yahoo Chief Executive Jerry Yang has gotten what he wanted: a chance to prove his company is worth more than the $47.5 billion Microsoft offered to...
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Yahoo stock slide likely; Microsoft may see rise
The first tangible reaction to Microsoft's decision to drop its bid for Yahoo will come in the early hours today as the companies' stocks...
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Yahoo CEO facing possible rebellion after spurning Microsoft
(AP) -- Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Jerry Yang is convinced that the company he started in a Silicon Valley trailer 14 years ago is worth more than the $47.5 billion that Microsoft Corp. had offered for the Internet pioneer.
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Yahoo CEO facing possible rebellion after spurning Microsoft
(AP:SAN FRANCISCO) Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Jerry Yang is convinced that the company he started in a Silicon Valley trailer 14 years ago is worth more than the $47.5 billion that Microsoft Corp. had offered for the Internet pioneer.
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How to be information literate
When I hear people ask or say, "What are libraries and librarians necessary for when there is Google?" I sometimes don't even know where to begin.
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AP Financial NewsBrief at 5:12 a.m. EDT
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) _ Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Jerry Yang is convinced that the company he started in a Silicon Valley trailer 14 years ago is worth more than the $47.5 billion that Microsoft Corp. had offered for the Internet pioneer.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 4th Oct 2006 12:43 UTC, submitted by anonymous
"George Weiss, Gartner's open-source analyst, recently said that Microsoft Windows will not suffer irreparable damage on the server side at the hands of Linux over the next five years. He's right. Microsoft will fall flat on its face all by itself, and Linux will pick up afterwards.
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Technology has good, bad points
Question is:How is itaffecting us? From sending instant messages to accessing the Internet on cell phones, the technology on which we virtually base our lives has come a long way.
The Huntsville Times |
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Cause of car fire remains a mystery, but Midas agrees to $938 refund
Dear Fixer: We wanted our Comcast bill split between Internet and cable TV. After much frustration, we were told it was done. One day I came home to find all Comcast connections had been turned off even though I had consistently paid the bill.
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