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After Hours: Microsoft, Yahoo shares subdued; TD Ameritrade moves higher
Shares of Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. are little changed after hours following a report that the world's largest software company is considering a purchase of Yahoo's search business.
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Local writer publishes first horror novel
Like many people, Floyd Phelps, a 35-year resident of Mesquite, put off writing his novel until he retired. Now his novel, Night Wolf’s Song, is in the bookstores and on the Internet.
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Petrobras Tops Microsoft, Is Sixth-Biggest Company (Update4)
Petrobras, as Brazil's state-controlled oil producer is known, climbed 3.8 percent to 50 reais, pushing its capitalization to 487.9 billion reais ($295.6 billion), according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
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Owning search results for your brand name
Negative mentions in search results can be damaging for a brand, potentially discouraging customers from using your company. If someone searches for your brand name in Google, what will the results look like? For brands such as Sky and Argos , the Google search results look good, with no negative results at all in the first page, even though each company must have had a few unhappy ...
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Microsoft plan on Yahoo involves buying search: source
BOSTON (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp has proposed an alternative deal to Yahoo Inc , a complex transaction that would include just buying Yahoo's search business, rather than a full-blown buyout, a person familiar with the discussions said on Monday.
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stake in Yahoo after it spins off the Asian assets, the source said. Apart from the search unit, which is Yahoo’s strongest franchise, the Web pioneer also owns a display advertising business and several Internet media properties, including Yahoo News, photo sharing site Flickr.com and Yahoo Mail.
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Recent Original Stories
"Sun and Red Hat have both submitted new versions of their trusted operating systems for Common Criteria certification evaluation. While these systems are being evaluated against the same CC protection profiles and at the same evaluation assurance level, these systems differ in significant ways that affect how a customer might choose to use such systems."
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38 charged in Romania-US Internet fraud bust
International investigators have busted a vast Internet fraud network and charged 38 suspects, most of them Romanians living in the United States, the Justice Department said Monday.
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Sybase sets sights on corporate iPhone e-mail
Enterprise developer Sybase has plans for its own proprietary iPhone e-mail software, Reuters reports. The company's CEO, John Chen, says that an iPhone application should be released "soon," and certainly before the end of 2008. It will let people access corporate e-mail with the same amount of security available on other phones, such as Palm's ...
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Apple market share at 66% in premium PC bracket
Apple's overall market share for computers sits at around 14-percent, but when narrowed down to only contrast sales of higher-end PCs costing over $1000 ñ since only the venerable Mac Mini typically costs less ñthat number skyrockets to 66-percent. eWEEK's Joe Wilcox writes that the NPD analyst group discovered that as the PC desktop market is down...
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SearchDay: Taming the Placement-Targeted Campaign Beast
Today's search engine marketing news and opinion: Placement-Targeted Campaigns: Taming the Beast; Microsoft Puts New Yahoo Deal on Table; Search: The Next Five Years; and more.
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AMD Program Helps Consumers Choose Gaming PCs
Computer manufacturers that join the AMD Game program can display a logo identifying the machine as meeting minimum requirements for gaming.
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Tense Week In Silicon Valley Awaiting Yahoo, Microsoft News
A busy week for Yahoo was capped off when news broke Sunday that Microsoft and Yahoo had resumed conversations but not for a full takeover.
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Google Health Beta Service Goes Live
Google launched an ambitious initiative Monday that aims to give people a central place online to store their health records...
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Group Says MySpace Cyber-bully Prosecution Goes Too Far
A digital advocacy group has blasted the federal government's prosecution of a Missouri woman whose fake MySpace profile...
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Dinner on Your Desktop: Papa John´s Launches ´myPapa´ Suite of Widget Applications
In its continuous quest to be the technology leader among the nation´s pizza companies - first
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Microsoft plan on Yahoo may involve buying search
BOSTON (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp has proposed an alternative deal to Yahoo, a complex transaction that would include just buying Yahoo's search business, rather than a full-blown buyout, a person familiar with the discussions said on Monday.
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Apple Sees Ringtones As Mobile Music Payoff
Industry watchers are anxious to see if Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who brought music downloading to millions with the 99-cent-per-song model, will change the rules of the music download game again
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Microsoft mulls alternatives to Yahoo acquisition
Microsoft has said it is continuing to explore and pursue its alternatives to improve and expand its online services and advertising business.
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Indiana's rollout of automated welfare services at a glance
Here is a look at the Family and Social Services Administration's rollout of automated eligibility and renewal and renewal services for food stamps, Medicaid and other welfare benefits under a $1.16 billion, 10-year contract with a coalition of companies led by IBM Corp. and Affiliated Computer Services Inc.
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Mount Tabor Collaborates with Google Health
Mount Tabor Online Services, Inc., a privately held information and development company, announced collaboration today with Google as a development and consulting service partner for Google Health.
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AMD GAME! to Help Identify Gaming-Grade Components Easily
AMD understands that it's sometimes difficult for consumers to easily differentiate gaming-grade PC's and components from similarly named and packaged mainstream parts, and they're hoping that the AMD GAME! initiative will help the buying public in that regard. AMD GAME! is the result of collaborative efforts between AMD, Alienware, Acer, Logitech, and Microsoft to help consumers figure out ...
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Express cards double storage capacity
Hifn launched what it is calling the industry's first hardware-advantaged, capacity optimization solution for Windows-based storage systems.
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Google makes health service publicly available
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) - Google Inc. is now offering the general public electronic access to their medical records and other health-related information.
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Freescale 8bit MCUs add flash, RAM options
Freescale Semiconductor has broadened its entry-level 8bit S08 MCU family with the addition of the MC9S08SH32 (SH32) and S9S08SG32 (SG32) devices.
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