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Yahoo investors up in arms
Yahoo faced a shareholders' rebellion Monday as the stock market punished the pioneering Internet company for its weekend rejection of Microsoft's $47.5 billion bid.
San Jose Mercury News |
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Climate prediction: No model for success
Why computer models, the main tools for forecasting climate change, cannot give us all the answers we need.
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Yahoo shares fall after deal dies
SAN FRANCISCO -- Yahoo shares fell 15% yesterday as hopes for the once-dominant Internet icon dimmed following Microsoft's withdrawal of a US$47.5 billion takeover bid.
Calgary Sun |
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Stocks dip as oil rises, bid on Yahoo quashed
NEW YORK - Wall Street pulled back yesterday after Microsoft Corp.'s decision to withdraw its bid for Yahoo Inc. and as oil prices rose to a new record over $120 a barrel.
Worcester Telegram & Gazette |
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Hotel Internet Marketing Having A Web Site Is Not Enough By Neil Salerno
Unfortunately, many hoteliers are content with simply having a web site as the sum-total of their Internet marketing effort. These same people wonder why their fair-share of reservation production is still eluding them. Many hoteliers wonder what more they can do to drive business from the Internet. For the record, just having a web site is not nearly enough.
Hospitality Net |
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Video: Maturing malware - Finjan's threat timeline
Finjan's Yuval Ben-Itzhak talks web editor James Garner through the 2007 security threat timeline and describes how the 'maturing of malware' provides new challenges to information security professionals.
Computer Weekly |
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Business newsmaker
IBM Corp., the world's largest computer-services company, named Bob Moffat , senior vice-president of integrated operations, to take over as head of its hardware group.
Toronto Star |
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Sanzenbacher's stock rises in OSU spring drills
COLUMBUS - While Wall Street quaked and trembled earlier this year over the Bear Stearns bailout and Microsoft's proposed shotgun marriage with Yahoo, things were not nearly as tumultuous in and around a different kind of stock market - one where shares in Scarlet and Gray futures can gain and lose value on an almost daily basis.
The Toledo Blade |
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Microsoft Breaks Ground on $280M Beijing R&D Center
Microsoft broke ground Tuesday for a new research and development center in Beijing that will house the company's growing...
PC World via Yahoo! News |
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Microsoft withdrawal costs Yahoo chief
SAN FRANCISCO–Yahoo shares fell 14 per cent yesterday as hopes for the once-dominant Internet icon dimmed following Microsoft's withdrawal of a $47.5 billion (U.S.) takeover bid.
Toronto Star |
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YouCastr Launches YouCastr Pro Sports Radio Station Service: First Customer - ESPN Radio Boston
BOSTON, BUSINESS WIRE -- YouCastr, the live Internet sports broadcasting network, today launches YouCastr Pro, its interactive professional streaming service for sports radio stations.
Broadcast Newsroom |
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SES Astra Signs Agreement with Nordnet for the Distribution of Astra2connect in France
BETZDORF, Luxembourg, BUSINESS WIRE -- SES ASTRA, an SES company (Paris:SESG) (LuxX:SESG), has signed an important framework contract with the internet service provider NordNet to market its satellite based two-way broadband service ASTRA2Connect in France.
Broadcast Newsroom |
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Useful reputation management resources
Reputation management and reputation monitoring are hot topics in 2008 and there are a whole host of resources that offer cost effective ways to manage your brand online.
e-Consultancy |
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Legislature most likely won't have time to ban hallucinogen
MONTGOMERY Web sites promoting a mind altering plant claim 'time is running out' on its legality, but that may not be the case in Alabama.
The Tuscaloosa News |
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Beer ads actor, 42, admits to child porn
A Toronto actor best known for his role as a boorish Scot in Canadian beer commercials has pleaded guilty to possessing and distributing child pornography on the Internet.
Toronto Star |
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Recent Original Stories
Microsoft is facing an early crisis of confidence in the quality of its Windows Vista operating system as computer security researchers and hackers have begun to find potentially serious flaws in the system that was released to corporate customers late last month.
New Mobile Computing |
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Failed bid for Yahoo, high oil prices spark concern on Wall Street
Wall Street pulled back Monday following Microsoft Corp.’s decision to withdraw its bid for Yahoo Inc. and as oil prices rose to a record.
Tacoma News Tribune |
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Qwest dumps deal with Sprint in favor of Verizon Wireless
Qwest Communications International Inc., the local phone company in 14 U.S. states including Washington, scrapped a wireless partnership with Sprint Nextel Corp. and replaced it with Verizon Wireless.
Tacoma News Tribune |
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Courtship's collapse could be for the best
Sure, things look rough for Yahoo and Microsoft now that their potential deal has collapsed. Yahoo's stock has cratered, and its would be suitor has to figure out another way to catch up in the online ad market, a flaw so big Microsoft was willing to pay 47.5 billion to fix it.
The Sarasota Herald-Tribune |
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Microsoft ‘back to square one’
Microsoft Corp.’s decision to drop its pursuit of Yahoo Inc. increases the pressure on Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer to make his money-losing Internet business succeed against Google Inc.
Tacoma News Tribune |
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Past Polls
Q: Do you think David Hicks received a fair trial? DISCLAIMER: These polls are not scientific and reflect the opinions of only those Internet users who have chosen to participate. Poll results cannot be assumed to represent the opinions of Internet users in general, nor the public as a whole.
Canberra Times |
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Issue 103 - 1st May - 30th May
David Lavenda, WorkLight's vice president of marketing and product strategy, was in New York this week, speaking about the advantages, as well as the security threats, that Web 2.0 technology offers the modern company.
Online Recruitment |
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Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang leaves 500M on table
Yahoo CEO Jerry Lang ended Monday nearly half a billion dollars poorer than he could have been if his company took Microsoft's offer. After the No. 2 search engine spurned the $33-per-share offer over the weekend, Yahoo's stock fell15%.
New York Daily News |
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Yahoo! shares fall 15% after Microsoft withdrawal
Yahoo shares fell 15 per cent yesterday (5 May) after Microsoft withdrew its £24.1 billion takeover bid after failing to finalise the deal within the software giant’s own self-imposed deadline.
Mad.co.uk |
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 27th Mar 2006 19:30 UTC
Phil Sim, a professional with technology editor journalist background, has written three interesting blog posts recently, discussing the much-rumored Google OS ( 1 , 2 , 3 ). He speculates that all user's data will be stored online on Google's servers and so one's desktop and files can be retrieved exactly as left by any other PC station, anywhere in the world, by simply using his Gmail ...
OS News |
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