All Right, Yahoo Bashers, Put a Sock In It: This Is a Good Deal Enough with the trendy Yahoo bashing (YHOO). This is actually a smart deal--way better than the wacky chop-shop plan Microsoft proposed (Microsoft offered to buy 16% of Yahoo for $35? So w [..]
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Microsoft-Yahoo: Ballmer Threatens To Walk* Microsoft (MSFT) responds to Yahoo's earnings by raising the ante again in one last-ditch, trans-Atlantic attempt to get Yahoo (YHOO) to cave. Speaking at a conference i [..]
Flickr Duo Ditching Yahoo, Too (YHOO) Two more high-profile losses for Yahoo: Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield, the husband-and-wife duo that founded photo sharing site Flickr -- and sold it to Yahoo for a rep [..]
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Yahoo Begs Outsiders To Help Improve Search (YHOO) What do you if you're Yahoo and you keep losing share to Google (GOOG)? You outsource search innovation to application developers. Yahoo's SearchMonkey program came out of private be [..]
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Microsoft-Yahoo Takeover Glitch: Can't Find Dissident Yahoo Board Members* One of the next steps in the Microsoft-Yahoo melodrama (MSFT) (YHOO) is for Microsoft to nominate a slate of directors to replace the ones it will try to get fired at Yahoo's shareholder meeting (Jerry, Roy Bostock, et al). The problem? The "word on the street" is that Microsoft can't find anyone willing to take on the job, says the Post's Peter Lauria.
We had assumed that Microsoft coul [..]
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Geometry Wars 2 available Aug 6, features 4-player modes Filed under: Microsoft Xbox 360
Four polygonal ships rendered on the same screen ... at the same time?! On August 6, Bizarre will prove the impossible possible when Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2 burst [..]
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Valley Wonderboy Max Levchin - Kinda Like Jackson Pollock Paypal refugee, Slide founder and current Web 2.0 'It' guy Max Levchin graced the Web 2.0 Expo with a keynote address/Q&A, where he made a spirited defense of Slide's $500 mill [..]
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Microsoft deploys protocol defense for IE ‘We can’t do it on our own!’
RSA Internet Explorer is the next battleground for Microsoft in its goal of securing the Windows stack against an anticipated avalanche of script-based attacks.
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The Unemployed Ninja Returns [Game Announce] Now that right there is some sexy box art. Last year Atlus released a quirky little DS title called Izuna: The Legend of the Unemployed Ninja, which combined nifty characters and a bizarre sense of humor with hardcore [..]