 Gates: Microsoft shifts focus after Yahoo deal collapses May 09, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. will focus on growing its own advertising and Internet search business after it withdrew its takeover offer for Yahoo Inc., Chairman Bill Gates said Friday. | |
 For 30 years now, you've been getting spam May 01, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 13 vote(s)
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This week, the world will mark an anniversary that has changed the face -- and other anatomical regions -- of email inboxes everywhere: the first known spam email was sent 30 years ago on Saturday. | |
 Google looking golden again after challenging stretch May 07, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- It's hard to believe Google Inc. actually looked vulnerable just two months ago. The Internet search leader's stock had plummeted 45 percent from its peak. And its two biggest rivals, Microsoft Corp. ... | |
 Probing Question: What is Net neutrality? May 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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"Internet Freedom, under attack. What do we do? Stand up, talk back," shouted a group calling themselves the Raging Grannies, outside the Dinkelspiel Auditorium at Stanford University. Inside, the Federal ... | |
iTunes movie downloads to be available day of DVD release May 02, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- Apple Inc. said Thursday that new movies from a slate of major studios will now be available for purchase over iTunes the same day they're released on DVD. | |
Studios win $111 million judgment against TorrentSpy.com May 07, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
(AP) -- The six major Hollywood studios have won a $111 million judgment for copyright infringement against the shut-down file-sharing Web site TorrentSpy.com. | |
Microsoft takeover deadline for Yahoo expires without comment April 27, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
A Microsoft deadline for Internet service company Yahoo to accept its 44.6 billion-dollar (28.5 billion-euro) acquisition offer expired at midnight Saturday, setting the stage for a hostile takeover bid by the software giant. ... | |
Timeline: Microsoft, Yahoo's merger-and-acquisition dance May 04, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
(AP) -- A chronology of events leading to Microsoft Corp.'s decision to abandon its offer for Web search and advertising competitor Yahoo Inc. | |
Microsoft sticks to its bid for Yahoo April 25, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
Microsoft's chief financial officer said Thursday that the US software giant is standing by its 44.6 billion dollar bid for Yahoo and the April 26 deadline it gave the struggling Internet pioneer to decide. | |
 Internet's Wikipedia to go print in Germany: publisher April 23, 2008 | User rating: 4.2 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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German publishing giant Bertelsmann said Wednesday it planned to publish the world's first reference book based on entries from Wikipedia, the popular online encyclopedia. | |
Users of Yahoo Answers seek advice, opinion, expertise April 22, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
One of the first large-scale analyses of how people share knowledge on Yahoo Answers has found that participants use the site to exchange advice and opinions, in addition to technical expertise. | |
 Darwin's original theory of evolution goes online April 17, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 16 vote(s)
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The original version of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution was published online Thursday among a "treasure trove" of the scientist's papers, photographs and other documents. | |
New: Design your own US president April 16, 2008 | User rating: 4 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Fed up with the flaws of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain? Here's your chance to set things right. | |
Microsoft takeover deadline looms for Yahoo April 26, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
Yahoo faced the choice of accepting to be gobbled up by Microsoft or going to the trenches to fight off a hostile takeover as the software giant's deadline on its 44.6 billion dollar offer loomed Saturday. | |
 Mobile devices stoke 'micro-blogging' fervor April 13, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 4 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Mobile Internet devices and online communities are merging to a new kind of web diary: "micro-blogging," where people fire off terse missives about what they are doing or thinking at any given moment. | |
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