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Yahoo shares plunge 20 percent
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Yahoo's shares tumbled as much as 20 percent on Monday after Microsoft withdrew its $47.5 billion (24.1 billion pound) takeover offer, wiping about $7.6 billion off the Internet company's market capitalization and piling pressure on its leadership.
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MTV, Harmonix Announce Rock Band Track Pack For PS2, Wii
With the PlayStation 2 and Wii versions of Rock Band unable to download new content, MTV Games and Harmonix have announced Rock Band Track Pack Volume 1. This is the first retail-distributed collection of 20 songs for the game - and includes recent Nine Inch Nails, Stone Temple Pilots and Boston content. The collection is due to be released on July 15th at a retail cost of $29.99 on PS2 and ...
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iPhone will get news from Associated Press
The Associated Press and more than 100 of its member newspapers are launching a service that will make news stories available on Apple's iPhone and other mobile devices.
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What made the Dust Bowl bad?
The Dust Bowl drought of the 1930s was arguably one of the worst environmental disasters of the 20th century. New computer simulations reveal the whipped-up dust is what made the drought so severe.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 24th Oct 2006 20:55 UTC
" Nvidia is making a CPU , but the only questions are what kind of CPU, and how the heck is it going to do it. Making an X86 based CPU is not a trivial venture, and there are enough problems to make even a company with the engineering bandwidth of Nvidia cringe.
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Amazon Suing NY State Over Sales Tax Law
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Chinese cyber crawlers hack Indian Govt sites
The Government still doesn't have a concrete policy on how to deal with it.
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Kount Becomes Signature Member of Merchant Risk Council
In a continuing effort to ratchet up efforts to battle online fraud, Boise-based Kount Inc. has accepted an invitation to join the Merchant Risk Council as a Signature Member.
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IBM connects UP engineering dep’t to NY mainframe hub
To "enrich the country’s talent pool," the local office of tech giant IBM has provided a "mainframe access grant" to the University of the Philippines in Diliman so it can link up with one of the company’s hubs in the United States.
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Red Hat Linux Desktop Moves: Calculated Strategy
Some have voiced concern at Red Hat’s move to deemphasize the desktop, yet it’s a strategy that should be seen in a larger context.
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U.S. markets skid Monday afternoon
NEW YORK, May 5 (UPI) -- U.S. markets skidded in early afternoon trading Monday with shares of Yahoo! falling on news that Microsoft Corp. had pulled out of purchase negotiations.
UPI |
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International Charity Seeks to Warn Children of Music Filesharing
Downloading is bad, kids!...
AnandTech |
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Yahoo Shares Tumble After Microsoft Bid Withdrawal
(AP) - Shares of Yahoo are down about 17 percent in early trading after the company's chief executive made it clear he thinks the Internet giant is worth more than the $47.5 billion that Microsoft is offering for it.
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Stocks Retreat After MS Walks Away From Yahoo
Wall Street pulled back Monday as investors digested Microsoft Corp.'s decision to withdraw its bid for Yahoo Inc. and oil prices rose to a new record over $120 a barrel.
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Will Microsoft Stream Office to Customer Desktops?
If you can't beat 'em – surround 'em. That may be the crux of Microsoft's emerging strategy for combating emerging software-as-a-service ( SaaS ) competitors.
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NAB Show Launches NAB365.comVisit NAB365.com at
WASHINGTON, BUSINESS WIRE -- NAB announced today the official launch of NAB365, a year-round online media property designed to serve the industries and professionals who gather annually at the NAB Show. From content creation to content delivery, NAB365 will provide professionals, via its intuitive search engine, the relevant information needed to make better, more informed equipment, software ...
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DisplayLink and EVGA Bring USB Graphics Adapters (UGAs) to Mass-Market Retail
DisplayLink and EVGA today announced that they have teamed to deliver a new generation of affordable USB graphics adapters (UGAs) for mass-market retail consumers. EVGA's new UV Plus+ Family of products which consists of the UV12 and UV16 USB graphics adapters, are based on DisplayLink network display technology, enabling Windows XP and Vista users to quickly and easily connect multiple displays ...
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Design Data’s software at the pinnacle of steel
Picture the steel skeleton, the mighty and intricate frame of some big, recently built structures nearby — the Qwest Center, the Memorial Stadium addition, Haymarket Park, the new Union Pacific building or First National skyscraper in Omaha.
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Tablet PCs use Intel's Atom
— Apr. 25, 2008 — Nexcom has announced three tablet computers using Intel's Atom processor, and targeting logistics, health care, and vehicle applications.
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Sizing up Microsoft and Yahoo: Did anybody win?
Now that Microsoft has dropped its bid to take over Yahoo, industry analysts assessed what happened and what to expect from the two companies. Microsoft gave up its effort to acquire Yahoo because the software company decided it wasn't worth the cost and potential negative publicity involved with a proxy fight, said Marc Edelman, a law professor at New York Law School and a former ...
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Lee Sheriff deputies use MySpace to track suspect
Lee County Sheriff's deputies used MySpace.com, a social networking website, to track down a suspected home invasion robber.
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Raja Petra to be charged with sedition Tuesday
KUALA LUMPUR: Raja Petra Kamaruddin, the webmaster of news portal Malaysia Today, is expected to be charged with sedition at the magistrates’ court in the Kuala Lumpur Court Complex in Jalan Duta on Tuesday.
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Use Universal Search to Leapfrog Local Rankings
Most locally-oriented sites focus their natural search optimization efforts on the big cities of the world — metros like New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. Yet there is a lot of traffic to be found in the long tail of search queries involving the many tens of thousands of smaller towns in the world. Only problem is, Google's local ranking methods seem to particularly prefer specific ...
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Microsoft may seek other deal to fight Google
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.
Hindustan Times |
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WSJ cleverly coins 'Motorborg', creates jealous blogger
The Wall Street Journal reported recently on Inrix, Inc., a Kirkland, Washington-based Microsoft spinoff that tracks speeds on 100,000 miles of US highway using data from GPS-enabled fleet vehicles, toll booths, road sensors...and citizens' mobile devices. The data is sold to a variety of companies (including MapQuest, Dash, and...
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