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Yahoo shares fall on word from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer that his company would not be interested in an outright purchase of Yahoo, but is still very much interested in a search partnership. Microsoft withdrew its $47.5 billion buyout offer for Yahoo in May after Yang and his board rejected the bid as too low. Microsoft then offered to buy Yahoo's search business, but Yahoo decided instead to sign a search advertising deal with Google which was opposed by regulators and did not happen.
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The consortium of Hollywood studios, retailers, service providers, and consumer electronics and information technology companies, called the Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem, or DECE, is working on a "uniform digital media experience" but won't announce details until the Consumer Electronics Show. The consortium said it will call for interoperability of devices and websites, and usage rules that allow consumers to copy content onto household playback devices and to burn their content to physical media.
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Written references could become old hat for hiring managers with one in five saying they use social networking sites to research job candidates -- and a third of them dismissing the candidate after what they discover. A survey by online job site CareerBuilder.com found 22 percent of hiring managers screened potential staff via social networking profiles, up from 2006 numbers.
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Behind the excitement and glamour of the football season is some key information technology including: GPS, ecommerce, wired and wireless networking, voice over IP, systems integration, data security, storage and project management-- that support and enhance America’s favorite sport. Companies such as Cisco, Insight, Ignify, Microsoft and KORE Telematics are helping NFL teams get serious about managing information technology in logistics, customer relationship management and securely storing team and media-related data.
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Awaiting U.S. government approval, Google says it is trying to move forward with a deal to place Google search ads on the number two search engine, Yahoo, an indication that Google is pushing for this deal to obtain approval as quickly as possible.
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Microsoft's Silverlight technology and rival Adobe's Flash format are currently locked in a race over who delivers the world's online video, but the ultimate prize may be who powers the next generation of Web software. Using Silverlight, the NBC site for the Olympics offered a glimpse of what is possible with future Web applications because viewers are able to watch up to four videos at once or follow the action with an online commentary that runs alongside the video.
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Bill Gates, whose boyish looks seem at odds with his graying hair, will leave behind a life's work developing software to devote energy to finding new vaccines or to micro-finance projects in the developing world.
Opinion
Waking up to find that the metrics used in a project are not measuring up to the needs--and satisfaction--of being completed.
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Here are a few key things to think about when it comes to Web site design and management in terms of search results, audience and growth.
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Apple moves up the list in terms of U.S. retail numbers.
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Activision unveiled a new "Guitar Hero" video game focusing on
the American rock band Aerosmith, taking the billion-dollar
franchise in a new direction.
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Microsoft said it may borrow money for the first time in its history to
fund a portion of its $44.6 billion unsolicited offer for Yahoo.
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The massive merger will create the second largest search and
online advertising company from, well, what is already the second largest search
and online advertising company.
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Yahoo posted a drop in quarterly profit and forecast 2008 revenue
below Wall Street forecasts as it cuts jobs and invests to shore up its
Web advertising business.
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While the unwashed masses can only dream of turning digital dreams into bona fide businesses, the famous use their clout to jump in with both well-shod feet. Here’s a list of celebrities taking a flyer on technology-based businesses.
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