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Yahoo!, Icahn Strike Truce
NEW YORK Yahoo! reached an agreement with financier Carl Icahn that will expand its board to include Icahn and two of his proposed directors while leaving Yahoo!'s current executive team in control.
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AmeriVault Signs With EMC Mozy To Offer Desktop, Notebook Backup Service
AmeriVault, which already offers high-end online storage based on other technologies, is now working the consumer and small business market with help from Mozy.
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Cold boot encryption-bypassing source code published
Source code is now available to utilities that can bypass programs like Microsoft's BitLocker and Apple's FileVault in some circumstances.
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Icahn Gets To The Table: Where To Now?
Why did Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) agree to give Icahn three seats on its board, when by all accounts it was cruising to a victory on August 1? Perhaps the company was a little worried about losing the vote, an outcome it hoped to avoid at all costs. But even if it had won, consider: Where would Yahoo be with Icahn and Microsoft out of the picture and a likely ho-hum earnings report due out tomorrow ...
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Yahoo reaches settlement with investor Icahn over shareholder fight+
(AP:NEW YORK, July 21) (Kyodo) _ Yahoo Inc. said Monday it has reached an agreement with billionaire investor Carl Icahn to settle their pending proxy contest related to the company's 2008 annual meeting of stockholders.
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Icahn Settles With Yahoo, Joins Board
As Greg noted earlier, Ichan was seeking control of Yahoo's board. Instead, Yahoo and Ichan came up with a compromise , giving Ichan 3 of the 11 seats on Yahoo's board. Eight members of the board will stand for reelection, including Yang. Robert Kotick will not be up for reelection. The board will expand to 11 members, with the two remaining seats chosen by the board. The possible two ...
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Lively new virtual world
As if Google didn't have a strong enough hold on the planet, it has launched its own world - a virtual world, to be exact.
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Microsoft: Forget iPhone, we’re still number two in business
Amid iPhone mania, Microsoft has gone on the offensive to promote its Windows Mobile platform.
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Smart Growth Resource Library: Healthy School Environments Assessment Tool
The Healthy School Environments Assessment Tool (HealthySEATv2) is a fully customizable and easy to use software program designed to help school districts evaluate and manage all of their environmental, safety and health issues.
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U.S. Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative Single Largest Fund for 2009
Walter Pincus of The Washington Post is reporting that President Bush's single largest request for funds and "most important initiative" in the fiscal 2009 intelligence budget is for the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative, a little publicized but massive program whose details "remain vague and thus open to question," according to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
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Asus ships Eee PC 1000
Asus has announced availability of its Eee PC 1000, an addition to its popular range of ultra-small laptops that offers a slightly larger screen and keyboard than earlier models, plus a hard drive for Windows users.
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Canada ends spectrum auction as C$4.25 billion raised
Canada's auction of wireless spectrum ended on Monday and new players appear poised to enter the market and challenge the country's Big Three carriers in a fight for mobile phone subscribers.
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Fallon to Start 'Late Night' Online, Not on Air
Jimmy Fallon will build an audience online before taking over for Conan O'Brien.
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JaJah Dives Deeper Into Enterprise VoIP
VoIP carrier JaJah, intensifying its effort to morph from pure consumer carrier to enterprise provider, has added a managed IP telephony solution, including hosted IP PBX, to its SMB solutions suite. JaJah jumped into the enterprise game as well as opened up its network earlier this year at the same time as it scored a stunning ...
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Reuters Business Summary
Yahoo and Icahn settle, Microsoft deal seen adrift NEW YORK - Yahoo Inc will appoint activist investor Carl Icahn and two of his nominees to its board, settling a proxy battle and making an immediate transaction with Microsoft Corp less likely. The settlement, announced on Monday, came just 11 days before Yahoo's August 1 annual shareholders meeting, at which Icahn had ...
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TV is Still the Best Way to Address Ads to Audiences, but Choices are Expanding
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- TV Advertising is being impacted by the Internet and by mobile services that provide highly personalized content delivery, reports In-Stat. No longer does “one ad fit all” viewers and the one big trend is for all advertising to become more relevant to the people who see it, the high-tech market...
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EA Gives Resistant Take-Two More Time to Mull Offer
Video game publisher Electronic Arts has again extended the deadline for its $2 billion tender offer to buy smaller rival Take-Two Interactive Software. The offer now is scheduled to end at 11:59 p.m. EDT on Aug. 18, an extension from this past Friday. EA said Monday it needed more time to allow regulators to continue their review.
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Mayor Dave's weekly whereabouts: Walking an efficient beat
On Tuesday, Mayor Dave Cieslewicz meets with Madison Police Department Assistant Chief John Davenport and a guy named Tim Freesmeyer. Well, if Weekly Whereabouts has any actual worth at all, it is to Google the names of people I don't know who show up on the Mayor's schedule.
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TMO's DealsOnTheWeb.com - ViewSonic VX2262wm 22" Widescreen LCD Monitor: $269.99 Delivered A/R
Our DealsOnTheWeb.com site found a deal on the ViewSonic VX2262wm 22" Widescreen LCD Monitor for $269.99, after a $30.00 mail-in rebate. This display features a 1680 x 1050 resolution, and shipping is free
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Yahoo cuts deal to placate Carl Icahn
Web portal Yahoo Inc. cut a deal with activist investor Carl Icahn, who has been pressuring the company and trying to replace its board of directors and CEO. (YHOO) (MSFT)
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Sophos Strengthens Compliance in Web Security Appliance
Sophos, the private vendor in the secure content and threat management market, today announced new key features to its managed WS1000 web security appliance that significantly improve IT's ability to keep pace with evasive end-user tools, ...
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Miss. school district bars teacher-student texting
A new school district policy in southern Mississippi prohibits teachers from texting or communicating with students through Internet social network sites such as MySpace. The Lamar County school board approved the policy earlier this month after becoming concerned that casual contact between teachers and students would be unprofessional. "The only intent is to limit the personal ...
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Microsoft delivers Home Server data-corruption fix in Power Pack 1
On July 21, Microsoft announced that the final version of the Power Pack 1 update for Windows Home Server is available for immediate download. by Mary Jo Foley
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S&P Picks and Pans: Bank of America, Genentech, Yahoo, Microsoft, Schering-Plough
Analysts' opinions on stocks in the news Monday
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A Fresh Look For Facebook
The social networking site said it launched the redesign to clean up users' profile pages and improve organization.
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