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IBM technology strategy and hardware execs retiring
Two of IBM's most senior executives, technology strategy chief Nick Donofrio and hardware chief Bill Zeitler, will retire later this year, an IBM memo showed on Monday.
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UPDATE: Yahoo Holders' Options: Sell, Sue Or Pray Yang Is Right
SAN FRANCISCO (Dow Jones) - Yahoo Inc. stockholders who watched their investments fall dramatically in value after Microsoft Corp. aborted its merger bid face limited and tough options, analysts say.
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Yahoo shares plunge after Microsoft's exit
NEW YORK, May 5 (Reuters) Yahoo Inc's shares tumbled as much as 20 percent on Monday after Microsoft Corp withdrew its $47.5 billion takeover offer, wiping about $7.6 billion off the Internet company's market capitalization and piling pressure on its leadership.
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E-commerce chief takes on more responsibility at The Children’s Place
Dina Sweeney, who took over the company’s e-commerce business last year, has been promoted to group vice president at The Children’s Place Retail Stores, assuming some of the duties previously held by general merchandise manager Jill Kronenberg who has resigned.
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Podcast: Microhoo, we hardly knew you
Microsoft and Yahoo plot their next steps--alone. Will Xobni add spice to Outlook e-mail? Plus, Trent Reznor's high-tech gift to his fans.
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INTERACTIVE MEDIA:
A Newmarket man has been charged in connection with a child pornography investigation. Acting on information from an online probe, York Regional Police raided Newmarket home Monday, seizing two computer towers and digital media.
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Nokia and T-Mobile conjoined in mobile venture
Mobile phone giant Nokia has teamed up with service provider T-Mobile to unveil a new slate of advanced mobile features. The move will accelerate the development and expansion of Ovi, Nokia's proprietary online mobile portal.
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Closing Glance: Apparel makers fall with market as oil rises
Shares of apparel makers closed lower Monday, as did the broader market, as investors absorbed Microsoft Corp.'s decision to pull its bid for Yahoo Inc. and oil prices climbed over $120 a barrel.
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How Open Is the International Internet?
Unrestricted access to the Internet is a myth. We usually take it for granted that we can have complete, unrestricted access to the Internet, wherever we are these days, but a recent study by an international group of researchers illustrates exactly how wrong this notion is.
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Microsoft Offers Enhancements to Automated Service Agent Tool
Microsoft Corp. announced that it has enhanced its online self-service and internal support tool, Microsoft Automated Service Agent (ASA), with a variety of new features. ASA is a hosted solution that allows customers to interact in a chat-style ...
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Microsoft Withdraws Proposal to Acquire Yahoo!
Microsoft issued a press release that it has withdrawn its bid to acquire Yahoo!. ebizQ received the following: We continue to believe that our proposed acquisition made sense for Microsoft, Yahoo! and the market as a whole. Our goal ...
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Sunlight Foundation offers reporting tools to cover U.S. politics online
More from NewsTools 2008: The Washington-based foundation is working on "one-click disclosure" to help the public see why federal money is going where it does.
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TechInsights' First Intellectual Property Symposium Attracted More Than 250 Technology, Legal and Business Thought ...
TechInsights today announced the success of its inaugural Intellectual Property Symposium , a joint effort of EE Times, Semiconductor Insights and Portelligent, which took place on April 15-16, 2008 at the San Jose Fairmont and was co-located with ESC Silicon Valley.
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Walking away could turn out best for Yahoo and Microsoft
Sure, things look rough for Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft Corp. now that they couldn't agree on a deal. Yahoo's stock has cratered, and Microsoft has to figure out another way to catch up in the online ad market, a flaw so big it was willing to pay $47.5 billion to fix it. But in the long run, Yahoo's rejection of Microsoft's acquisition offer could turn out to be brilliant for both companies. ...
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Amazon sues NY over Internet sales tax collection
Amazon.com is suing New York over a new law that requires out-of-state online companies to collect sales tax from shoppers in New York.
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Ballmer Balks. Now What for Microsoft?
It could aim its billions at other targets, including AOL.
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SupportSoft Reports First Quarter 2008 Financial Results
SupportSoft, Inc., a provider of software and services that make technology work, today reported unaudited financial results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2008.
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Why Didn`t Microsoft Yell `Yahoo!`
On Saturday, Microsoft withdrew its unsolicited bid for Yahoo. What does that mean for Microsoft and Yahoo? And what about Google? Does this just make the search leader more powerful? And what will Microsoft do now? Four eWEEK editors join Microsoft Watch's Joe Wilcox to answer those question in this special podcast. Clint Boulton, Jason Brooks, John Hazard and Michael Hickins explain why and ...
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Recent Original Stories
"The Ubuntu team is proud to announce the release of Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS , the first maintenance release of "Dapper Drake". This release includes both installable Desktop CDs and alternate text-mode installation CDs for several architectures, for Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Edubuntu.
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Daily Dose: Short Limbs Linked To Dementia; Computer Keyboards Have More Bacteria Than Toilet
Check out today's Daily Dose.
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SupportSoft Acquires YourTechOnline.com Inc., Enhancing Consumer Business
SupportSoft, Inc., a provider of software and services that make technology work, today announced the acquisition of YourTechOnline.com Inc., an award-winning provider of premium technology services. SupportSoft's consumer business brings industry-leading technology, merchandizing and marketing expertise and skilled service delivery agents to the growing remote technology support industry. ...
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Stocks trade lower after Microsoft pulls Yahoo bid
NEW YORK -- 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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Government Computer News
The PASS card security technologies that the Homeland Security and State departments are poised to roll out this spring have prompted tart criticism from lawmakers.
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The Search is Over! Everything Channel's Future of Storage Magazine to Spotlight Innovative CODiE Award Finalist
Everything Channel , the global leader in technology sales and the one stop shop for the indirect sales channel that drives 75 percent of technology sales throughout the world, will spotlight Gaviri Technologies, Parsippany, N.J., maker of the Gaviri Universal Search Operating System and a CODiE Award Finalist, in the June issue of The Future of Storage, the guidebook for cutting-edge storage ...
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NI intros fastest bus-powered DAQ devices for USB
AUSTIN, USA: National Instruments (NI) has released two new bus-powered M Series data acquisition (DAQ) devices for USB that deliver faster sampling rates and more digital I/O features than previously released bus-powered M Series devices for USB. The NI USB-6212 and USB-6216 are available with 68-pin SCSI mass termination, screw terminals or 50-pin IDC connectivity to provide multiple ...
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