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Yahoo-Google: Change In Control Can Cancel Agreement; Minimum Revenue Threshold
Yahoo's (NSDQ: YHOO) ad outsourcing deal with Google (NSDQ: GOOG) does not necessarily preclude a sale to Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) down the road. In a filing made this morning, the company specifically notes that either party may terminate the deal in the event of a change in control . Other triggers that can prompt a termination include legal action related to anti-competitiveness, a court ...
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Coldplay To Debut New Single In Guitar Hero III
Alternative rock band Coldplay will include its new single, "Violet Hill," from the group's upcoming Viva la Vida album, with a three-track downloadable song pack for Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock. The pack will be available for the Xbox 360 (Xbox Live Marketplace) and the PlayStation 3 (PlayStation Store) starting June 19. The Coldplay song pack will also include two others popular tracks ...
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Yahoo-Google: Analysts React: Short-Term Gains Mask Long Term Sacrificies; MSFT-YHOO Still?
You already know how the market reacted to yesterday's news: Shares of Yahoo got slammed, as an ad deal with Google (NSDQ: GOOG) was seen as a poor substitute to a full or partial sale to Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT). Even after yesterday's swoon, the stock is off another 4 percent today to around $22.50the lowest its been since Microsoft's initial offer back in February. So as dreams of a sale fade, ...
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Storm, internet. cell phone, river info
The Wednesday storm affected Eagle Communication's ability to provide broadband services to areas near Chapman. All of the wireless Internet services that had been disrupted were restored Thursday afternoon, and Eagle Communications teams are working to restore additional services.
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Net power to fight smear tactics
DEMOCRAT Barack Obama has shown the stunning power of the internet for political fundraising. Now he is fighting its darker side as a vehicle for "smears" against his bid for the White House.
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Is Your Computer Data Protected Against Weather-Related Disasters? New Service Offers Web-Based Backup to Protect Your ...
Recent tornadoes, floods and earthquakes have left people and businesses with complete data losses. Even if you are backing up your data to an onsite hard drive, those backups are being ripped away with torrents of wind and water along with the original computer. A new web-based service offers a 15-day free trial on Mozy's automated, online data backup service.
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Google, Yahoo search for deal
YAHOO has struck an alliance with Google in a bid to bolster its sagging fortunes and help stave off a campaign by billionaire corporate raider Carl Icahn to overthrow its board of directors and sell the pioneering internet firm to Microsoft.
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Social Networking Takes Off
Social interaction platforms, including MySpace and Facebook, have grown dramatically in recent years, with more people joining every day. Once a niche activity, online social networking now engages millions of consumers and has become an integral part of many people's lives.
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Multi-Platinum Alternative Rockers Coldplay Debut New Single as Part of Downloadable Songpack for Guitar Hero(R) III: ...
SANTA MONICA, Calif., BUSINESS WIRE -- The reflective and emotional chords of multi-award winning band Coldplay are making their debut on Activision, Inc.'s (Nasdaq:ATVI) Guitar Hero (R) III: Legends of Rock with the release of a three-track downloadable song pack.
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O2 Adds to iPhone WiFi
LONDON -- O2 today announced a deal with BT Openzone to enhance the unlimited Wi-Fi package offered to all iPhone customers. From July 11th, iPhone users will have access to more than 3,000 BT Openzone premier Wi-Fi hotspots as part of their monthly tariff, for no extra cost.
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14:00 (BST), 13/06/2008 Players Only with Scott Steinberg Press Release PROVIDED BY GAMES PRESS - Technology supersite ...
- Technology supersite Digital Trends ( www.digitaltrends.com) today announced the availability of episode ten of Internet video show "Players Only with Scott Steinberg," which profiles the field of professional gaming and electronic sports, where today's best computer and video game players get paid to travel the world, sell out arenas and put their skills behind the keyboard or controller to ...
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Friday 13th Is Lucky For Music Lovers
Since the launch of the explosive Tropicana Smoothies advert in April which saw a ‘firework display' of fruit, the catchy song recorded for the score has gained a bit of cult status. Due to the amount of public interest over the internet and radio Tropicana Smoo...
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Negotiate your IT contract
Imagine a day without technology - no telephone system, no email, no internet access, no web-based software to help you manage your day-to-day business needs.
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Which Car Are People Searching For Most?
Hybrids and other fuel-efficient cars are topping one Web site's searches.
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SEOmoz Gets Penalized for a URL Ending with .0
SEOmoz's Jane Copland spent months on SEOmoz's 2008 Web 2.0 Awards and I know this because I helped judge the winners. After they ranked well once the awards were announced (and even had a PR7), the PageRank went down seemingly overnight and the website disappeared from the Google index. Completely. After investigating this with Google , it turns out that the problem was that the URL ...
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Upshur May Have to Rescind Vote On Laptops for Buckhannon Police
Upshur County commissioners may have to rescind a vote that paid for laptop computers in the Buckhannon Police Department cars in order to head off a potential ethics violation. The commissioners on March 13 voted 2-1 to spend about $10,000 to place the computers in the city's police cruisers.
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ATT Mulls Upcharge for Big Downloaders
ATT, the nation's largest ISP, is considering big downloaders more. A spokesman calls the policy "inevitable" but announced no specific plans. Overall bandwidth is surging, ATT says, and the top 5 percent of users eat 46 percent of the total. Other ISPs have secret caps, and Time Warner Cable already has a pilot surcharge plan in Beaumont, Texas.
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Here is the latest Washington business news from The AP
Associated Press - June 13, 2008 9:55 AM ET SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Yahoo became Microsoft's takeover prey largely because Google established such a commanding lead in the Internet's lucrative...
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Yahoo strikes ad deal with Google
Yahoo Inc. agreed Thursday to a search-advertising deal with rival Google Inc. just hours after announcing that Microsoft Corp. was no longer in the picture. (YHOO) (GOOG) (MSFT)
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Tories table controversial copyright amendments bill
The federal government has introduced legislation to make it easier to prosecute people who download copyrighted material from the Internet. Industry Minister Jim Prentice tabled amendments to the Copyright ...
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Entorian Introduces Stacking Alternative to Dual-Die Packaging
AUSTIN, Texas----Entorian Technologies Inc. , a market-leading provider of advanced electronic technologies and solutions for enterprise, consumer and other high-growth markets, today announced RC™ Stakpak®, a new, low-cost, package-on-package stacking technology for DRAM memory.
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Google, Yahoo strike ad deal
Just hours after saying it had ended talks over a possible investment from Microsoft , Yahoo announced a deal with Google to run some of Google's advertisements alongside Yahoo search results.
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Weak evidence links congressmen's cyber-attacks to China
U.S. House of Representatives members who worry that China may have been responsible for attacks on their computers have provided little evidence to back up their claims, according to computer security experts.
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MP3Tunes' Robertson Gets Sued By EMI
Michael Robertson, the outspoken founder of MP3.com, said this week that record company EMI is looking to make him personally liable as CEO of MP3tunes in a lawsuit filed against the firm. San Diego-based MP3tunes, a provider of online music storage services for MP3 files, is being sued by EMI over copyright infringement. EMI filed suit in November of last year over MP3tunes' Sideload and music ...
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NIIT to provide education in Andhra schools
Delhi-based learning and knowledge solutions provider, NIIT, has received a letter of intent (LoI) to provide computer and computer-aided education in 2,005 more schools in Andhra Pradesh. The contract is valued at Rs 172.8 crore.
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