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MARKET SNAPSHOT: U.S. Stocks Weaken As Yahoo Pulls Microsoft Offer
U.S. stocks declined on Monday after Microsoft Corp. dropped its $50 billion offer for Yahoo Inc. and an analyst said Bank of America Corp. should abandon its takeover of Countrywide Financial Corp.
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It is possible to write applications for OS X using Microsoft's Visual Basic, thanks to .NET Framework's Common Language Infrastructure and the open source Mono Framework and wx.NET. It turns out it is quite easy to do so, and this short tutorial tells you how.
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Warren Buffett's deal-making observations, post Microsoft-Yahoo
The billionaire investor recounts his own merger tale after Microsoft-Yahoo negotiations collapse. Are Berkshire directors Bill Gates, Sue Decker, and Ron Olson listening?
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Yahoo stock takes a beating after deal collapses
The Internet firm sees its share price plunge 16% in early trading after it turns down Microsoft s sweetened merger proposal. Yahoo Inc.http://topics.latimes.com/business/companies/yahoo shareholders reacted with shock and dismay after merger talks with Microsoft Corp.http://topics.latimes.com/business/companies/microsoft collapsed over the weekend, sending shares tumbling in early ...
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Yahoo shares fall 17 pct after Microsoft withdraws $44 billion bid
SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo shares fell 17 percent in early trading Monday as hopes for the once-dominant search engine dimmed following Microsoft's withdrawal of a $47.5 billion (Ð30.72 billion) takeover bid.
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Mechanical squirrels, robot lizards jump into research
Dubbed "Rocky" after the cartoon character, the robo-squirrel is working its way into Hampshire's live-squirrel clique, controlled by researchers several yards away with a laptop computer and binoculars.
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Mac OS 10.5.2 = Apple Vista?
I've heard many different complaints about Mac OS 10.5.2 since it was released, from my own Skype/podcasting problems to issues with just about everything else, including: printing, third-party wireless routers, software freezing and problems with Time Machine. The Apple discussion boards are littered with stories about all kinds of crawlers...
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Lycos Unveils New Cinema Video Community, Adding Online VOD Rentals to Its Ad-Supported Service, Bringing Enhanced ...
Lycos, Inc., a leading provider of social publishing, media and search services, today introduced the new Lycos Cinema adding video on demand rentals to its existing ad-supported Lycos Cinema community, greatly expanding the interactive social video viewing experience. With the new Lycos Cinema, users now have the option of watching and interacting around premium rentals and free VOD ...
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Wireless Matrix Partners with deCarta to Increase Mapping Capabilities for Mobile Resource Management
Wireless Matrix Corporation, a leader in mobile resource management, today announced it has partnered with deCarta, the leading provider of advanced and comprehensive geospatial software platforms, to increase its mapping capabilities within FleetOutlook®, Wireless Matrix's flagship web application.
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Stocks trade lower after Microsoft pulls Yahoo bid
Wall Street pulled back Monday as investors digested Microsoft Corp.'s decision to withdraw its bid for Yahoo Inc. and oil prices again approached $120 a barrel. The Dow Jones industrial average at times fell more than 100 points.
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Stocks trade lower after Microsoft pulls Yahoo bid
By TIM PARADIS NEW YORK (AP) -- Wall Street pulled back Monday as investors digested Microsoft Corp.'s decision to withdraw its bid for Yahoo Inc. and a better-than-expected reading on the service sector.
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Yahoo shares plunge in premarket trading after Microsoft withdraws bid
Shares of Yahoo have fallen 17% in early trading today. The drop follows Microsoft's announcement over the weekend that it's withdrawn its bid for the once dominant Internet search engine.
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Sponsored Feature: Games for Zune with XNA Game Studio 3.0
In the fifth Microsoft-sponsored article on Gamasutra's XNA-themed microsite, Microsoft's Frank Savage, development manager for the XNA Game Studio Express team, summarizes the capabilities of running XNA Framework games on its Zune portable music player. First announced at Microsoft's GDC keynote, the latest forthcoming version of XNA Game Studio will give developers cross-platform ...
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Yahoo's $14 billion 'transition'
Microsoft is walking away from its offer to buy Yahoo...for now. But I don't believe for one second that the deal is dead for good.
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Wall Street Loses More Ground
The major averages in New York fall, while gold and oil are climbing. Yahoo! is hard hit, and Countrywide is also tumbling.
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Repairs Underway at BHP Billiton's Neptune Facility in the Gulf of Mexico
HOUSTON----BHP Billiton's Neptune facility in the Gulf of Mexico is currently undergoing remediation to reinforce certain structural components in the hull's pontoons.
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Government Computer News
Most of us in the federal information technology community think of Internet technologies as tools for improving the flow of information among people, computers and — sometimes — machines.
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Oceanic experiencing problems
Oceanic internet, cable and phone subscribers may notice an interruption in service statewide this morning.
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S&P Picks and Pans: Microsoft, Yahoo, Countrywide, Sprint, Marvel
Analyst opinions on stocks making headlines in Monday's market
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Greenlight Wireless Corporation is Now Skweezer, Inc.
Greenlight Wireless has been rebranded using its widely-known Skweezer trademark. (PRWeb May 5, 2008) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/05/prweb915204.htm
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NetMotion Enhances Security
SEATTLE -- NetMotion Wireless, a leading provider of mobile productivity and management software, announced today that it released version 8.0 of Mobility XE (TM), the company's award-winning mobile virtual private network (VPN) software.
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'Cloud Computing' Puts Computer Resources on Tap
Morning Edition , May 5, 2008 · A new technology aims to make computer power, like electricity, a pay-as-you-go enterprise, potentially bringing supercomputing to the masses.
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SanDisk shares up as analyst sees memory chip prices rising
Shares of memory chip maker SanDisk Corp. rose Monday after an analyst said he saw a surge in memory chip prices. Lazard Capital analyst Daniel Amir said in a note to investors that contract prices for NAND memory chips should increase 10 percent to 15 percent in May.
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Microsoft yanks Yahoo bid
"After careful consideration, we believe the economics demanded by Yahoo! do not make sense for us," Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said in withdrawing the $44.6-billion bid.
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eWeek Newsbreak, May 5, 2008
In this news this week: Microsoft pulled the general release of Windows XP service pack three late last week, blaming a “compatibility issue” for the foul up.
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