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Older Japanese go online in search of love
‘When you reach my age, the scope of your activities shrinks and you can only meet people within a narrow circle,' said 62-year-old
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Spurned Microsoft Gains While Yahoo! Tumbles
Yahoo! shares fall in premarket trading while Microsoft rise, after the big proposed deal falls apart.
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Google Executive Joins Cheapflights' Board
LONDON & BOSTON----Cheapflights Ltd. , a leading UK and North American Internet media travel company, which pioneered online flight price search and comparison in 1996, today announced the appointment of Liane Hornsey to the Board as non-executive director effective May 1, 2008.
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Yahoo Shares Fall 21 Pct After Microsoft Deal Exit
Yahoo shareholders cannot be happy about the value drop in its stock after Microsoft declined to meet Yahoo's price point for takeover.
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Ohio Sends Bills To Smokers Buying Cigarettes Online
Ohio smokers who bought cigarettes online to avoid taxes may get a shock in the mail this week.
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JustSystems Contributes Intellectual Property on eXtensible Business Reporting Language
JustSystems, the largest independent software vendor in Japan and a worldwide leader in XML and information management technologies, today announced that it is contributing intellectual property rights for its invention of eXtensible Business ...
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US stocks slump after Microsoft gives up Yahoo bid
NEW YORK - US shares opened lower on Monday after Microsoft walked away from its takeover offer for unwilling Internet prey Yahoo and amid profit taking from last week's gains.
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Commercial OpenSolaris ships
After a three-year incubation period, Sun's long promised OpenSolaris, the third open source variant of Unix, was officially delivered Monday. "It's the first Opensolaris operating system that's fully supported," said Jim McHugh, vice president of Solaris marketing for Sun. OpenSolaris will compete in a...
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Yahoo: 'Ok, So Now What?'; Analysts, Market React To Dead Deal; YHOO Trades Down Over 18 Percent
That's the headline of Jerry Yang's post at Yodel Anecdotal discussing Yahoo's (NSDQ: YHOO) future now that Microsoft has withdrawn its offer. If you're looking for anything meaty, like indication of a fresh deal with another party, then don't bother looking there. Instead, there's some talk about Buzz, OneSearch and the company's new social efforts. In the short term, the market knows that none ...
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Jaco Electronics, DT Research and Image Base International Selected by Alliance Airport Advertising to Install Digital ...
HAUPPAUGE, N.Y. & RENO, Nev. & SAN JOSE, Calif. & PORTLAND, Ore.----Jaco Electronics, Inc. , a global distributor and integrator of electronic components and customized flat panel display solutions, and provider of value-added logistics services, and DT Research, a leading developer of information appliances for vertical markets, today announced a partnership with Image Base International , a ...
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Microsoft may seek other deals to fight Google domination
SAN FRANCISCO -- Microsoft Corp. could seek a variety of deals after walking away from Yahoo, Inc., but few would be comprehensive enough to let it challenge Google, Inc.'s domination of online advertising.
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Tech Stocks: Yahoo losses highlight tech sector action
Investors showed their feelings about Yahoo Inc., sending the company’s shares down almost 20% in the wake of Microsoft Corp. backing away from its offer to acquire the Internet giant for more than $44 billion.
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Yahoo shares fall after Microsoft withdraws takeover bid
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Yahoo shares fell 17 percent in early trading today as hopes for the once-dominant search engine dimmed after Microsoft's withdrawal of a $47.5 billion takeover bid.
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the matter say. A tie-up with Google, seen as a big winner from the end of Microsoft-Yahoo talks, should help boost Yahoo’s operating performance in the near term.
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This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions about how to install the free VMware Server (version 1.0.2) on a Debian Etch system. With VMware Server you can create and run guest operating systems (virtual machines) such as Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, etc. under a host operating system.
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Microsoft withdraws offer to buy Yahoo
SAN FRANCISCO -- Microsoft yesterday yanked its proposal to acquire Yahoo, saying the struggling Internet pioneer refused to budge on price despite the software giant upping its offer to nearly $50 billion.
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Growth pangs for mid-cap IT firms
Sluggish volume growth and mark-to-market losses have affected the performance of a majority of mid-cap information technology companies in the January-March 2008 quarter. Analysts expect that growth will continue to be sluggish in the next two quarters.
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Yahoo dismisses Microsoft's aborted bid as a 'distraction'
SAN FRANCISCO -- Yahoo yesterday dismissed Microsoft's aborted takeover bid as a "distraction," promising the struggling Internet pioneer is poised for better days.
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Microsoft’s board fails to decide on Yahoo
Wall Street Journal report.
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Inventor: Web still in infancy
th anniversary of the Web’s effective launch.
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FleetMind Solutions Goes Mobile With the iKon From Psion Teklogix
FleetMind Solutions, the leading provider of wireless enabled on-board technology and enterprise fleet management systems, announced today that its innovative on-board computer product is going mobile with the iKon.
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PLDT unit taps medium-sized businesses
CEBU CITY -- A new unit of Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co., Inc. (PLDT) is capitalizing on small and medium enterprises (SME) nationwide by offering IT solutions that will help these grow.
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Signed up, logged on — and over 35
Dr. Stephen Sheldon’s 19-year-old niece was a bit shocked to learn last Thanksgiving that the Gypsum veterinarian has a Facebook profile.
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Yahoo shares whacked; pressure on Jerry Yang rises
Shares of Yahoo fell 22% in premarket trading as hopes for the once dominant search engine dimmed on the withdrawal of a $47.5 billion bid from Microsoft over the weekend.
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Satyam and SAP Form Global Services Partnership
SAP AG and Satyam Computer Services Ltd. today announced a new partnership to help businesses accelerate co-innovation and improve their return on investment.
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