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Microsoft, Icahn offered Yahoo $2.3 bln annual revenue
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp and billionaire investor Carl Icahn's joint proposal for Yahoo Inc , which was rejected on Saturday, included $2.3 billion in guaranteed annual revenue from search advertising for five years, people familiar with the matter said on Sunday.
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Buy.com Deal With EBay Angers Sellers
The golden era of the small seller on eBay, hawking gewgaws and knickknacks from the basement or garage, is coming to a noisy and ignominious end.
New York Times |
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Microsoft phases out 20 GB Xbox 360, intros 60 GB version
As expected, Microsoft dropped the price of its 20 GB Xbox 360 Pro (Premium) game console by $50 to $299.99. However, the price drop isn’t permanent as it is designed to quickly clear the inventory of these models to make room for a new 60 GB version. As soon as the 20 GB consoles are gone, you will be paying just as much as you would have before.
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 4th Oct 2005 11:15 UTC
The documents included are: the Getting Started guide (an 80-page introduction to using the shell and the MSH language supported by the Windows Monad Shell), a single-page summary of the MSH language, formatted as a tri-fold, a quick-start guide to tracing in the Windows Monad Shell, and the three Hands-On Labs from the 2005 Professional Developers Conference; "Monad Scripting", "Building Monad ...
OS News |
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Yahoo rejects joint Icahn-Microsoft proposal
A joint proposal by Microsoft and activist investor Carl C. Icahn to buy out Yahoo has been rejected. In a statement issued Saturday night, Yahoo said it had rejected the proposal which was substantially similar to a previous offer ...
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Sena holds stir against Tata Power at Mulshi
The Maharashtra Knowledge Corporation Limited (MKCL) is developing a software to facilitate quality academic and administrative e-services in primary and secondary education systems.
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Jerry Yang and replace the nine-member board with his own slate of directors. Icahn owns nearly 5 percent of Yahoo shares.
Tiscali |
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In Bid for Yahoo, Microsoft Turns More Aggressive
Shareholders searching for détente in the battle between Yahoo and Microsoft are unlikely to find it in Microsoft’s new proposal to buy Yahoo’s search business.
NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance |
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Advertising in Europe Softens, and More Goes to the Internet
European advertising executives are worried that European marketers will slash ad budgets, as many of their counterparts have already done in America.
NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance |
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Software Notebook: Microsoft, Sony seek to surpass convention buzz for Nintendo
Nintendo's resurgence will be a big focus of attention this week at the E3 video-game convention, where Microsoft and Sony will be trying to generate some buzz of their own.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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KDE Commit-Digest for 8th June 2008
Posted by Danny Allen on Sunday 13/Jul/2008, @18:33 from the i'm-still-here-but-barely-awake dept. In this week's KDE Commit-Digest : Global keyboard shortcuts for applets, and an Amarok and "python expression" runner in Plasma . A Java test applet and various interaction improvements in Plasma.
KDE News |
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In Bid for Yahoo, Microsoft Turns More Aggressive
Shareholders searching for détente in the battle between Yahoo and Microsoft are unlikely to find it in Microsoft?s new proposal to buy Yahoo?s search business.
New York Times |
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Tensions escalating in battle for Yahoo's board
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - After more than five months of sparring, the battle for control of Yahoo Inc. has turned into a bare-knuckles brawl with a whiff of desperation hanging over all the key combatants.
Philstar.com |
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Yahoo rejects MS proposal, seeks bid for entire company
BOSTON, 12 JULY 2008 - Yahoo Saturday night rejected a joint proposal from Microsoft and investor Carl Icahn that had called for a restructuring and the sale of Yahoo's search business to Microsoft.
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iPhone 2.0 includes critical security fixes
SAN FRANCISCO, 11 JULY 2008 - Apple fans who bought their iPhones before Friday's splashy iPhone 3G rollout have a new reason to upgrade their software: It's buggy.
Computerworld Singapore |
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Opinion: How Microsoft can turn the negative Vista PR tide
Things have been awfully tough for Microsoft over the past year. Aside from all of its woes with Yahoo and Jerry Yang, the company has faced a PR nightmare unlike anything we've ever seen on the Vista front. In this opinion piece, we offer some suggestions on how Microsoft can fix what ails Vista marketing. Read More...
Ars Technica |
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Yahoo Rejects Microsoft's Latest Offer
SAN FRANCISCO — After more than five months of sparring, the battle for control of Yahoo Inc. has turned into a bare-knuckles brawl with a whiff of desperation hanging over all the key combatants.
FOX 40 Sacramento |
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Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 12th Dec 2007 05:56 UTC
A lot was said lately about the Vorbis/Theora vs h.264/AAC situation on the draft of the HTML5. As some of you know, video is my main hobby these days (I care not about operating systems anymore), so I have gain some experience on the field lately, and at the same time this has made me more demanding about video quality.
New Mobile Computing |
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Blind girl plays any song after one listen
SEOUL: A five old blind girl is causing a sensation on YouTube after stories emerged of her uncanny ability to listen to a song just once then reproduce it perfectly on the piano.
The New Zealand Herald |
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Dan Cane, who made life easy for professors, now aims at Web users
The front door opens to a foosball table, deep, flaming-red comfy chairs and a fireplace. The upstairs basks in pink shutters, lime-green floors, purple high-rise ceilings and yellow hallways. Bamboo poles hide the building's structural supports, giving /
The Palm Beach Post |
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Japan Hot Stocks-Pacific Holdings, Nisshinbo, Yahoo Japan
TOKYO, July 14 (Reuters) - The benchmark Nikkei average <.N225> rose 0.5 percent and the broader TOPIX <.TOPX> was 0.7 percent higher as of 0105 GMT on Monday.
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Skywatch: Venus is pretty to see, but you wouldn't want to visit
Google has good site to read about moon landings. Sunday is 39th anniversary.
San Antonio Express-News & KENS 5 |
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AT&T's new U-verse takes on Time Warner
With AT&T introducing its U-verse package of phone, Internet, wireless and TV services, the Dayton area will have a telecommunications giant to do battle with Time Warner Cable.
Dayton Daily News |
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E3 '08: Carmack IDs Quake Live
Doom-creator's celebrity technical director joins executive producer Marty Stratton to discuss free-to-play, browser-based FPS, and PC-versus-console strengths.
GameSpot |
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Computer beats poker expert in battle
Human pride took a hit 11 years ago when IBM's Big Blue computer beat world chess champion Gary Kasparov. Now it's poker players' turn to be humiliated by a machine.
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