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| Monday, January 19, 2009 |
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 What Are Bewkes, Ballmer And Bostock Talking About?A lunchtime meeting between Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Yahoo chairman Roy Bostock was actually a threesome with Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes filling out the trifecta, according to Kara Swisher. Hopefully they were hammering out a Microsoft-Yahoo search deal. Hopefully any AOL-Yahoo merger discussed involves lots and lots of erased redundancies. One question: We know she's busy settling in, but we have to wonder: why was Roy at the meeting and not new Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz? Aren't Roy's fingerprints all over the disaster that was Yahoo in 2008? Read > Microsoft Dumps 7.3% Stake In ComcastMicrosoft: Google Apps No Threat | |
| Time For Apple's Board To Do The Right Thing Whatever credibility Apple's board had left evaporated two days ago when Steve Jobs announced that his illness was more complicated than he thought and that he would be taking a six-month leave of absence to focus on it. Read > | |
| Finally, Video Of Flight 1549 Landing On Hudson For two days, we've been amazed that no one seemed to have captured images of Flight 1549 as it descended and landed on the Hudson. We understand that it happened fast, but there must have been hundreds of thousands of security cameras, video cameras, and digital cameras capable of capturing some part of the descent and landing. Finally, the wait is over. Read > | |
| Carlos Slim May Save The New York Times! Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim is in talks to invest a few hundred million dollars in the New York Times, the WSJ says. This amount won't save the company, but it will buy it time. Read > | |
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How big was Thursday's news of US Airways Flight 1549 Hudson splashdown on the Internet? Read > CNBC's Maria Bartiromo: Available Star CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo is in the middle of a contract negotiation, a source tells us. According to a source familiar with Maria's thinking, she might consider moving to general news if an extraordinary offer came along. If we're FOX, we back up a dump truck full of cash to Maria's apartment. Read > Circuit City Mania: Shoppers Rush Liquidation Events Starting Saturday, bankrupt Circuit City began liquidating its inventory at all 567 of its U.S. stores, with the goal of selling out everything by the end of March. And reports are coming in: Shoppers are flooding the stores. Read > Sony To Sony Ericsson: No, You Can't Make A 'PSP Phone' With Apple (AAPL) increasingly marketing the iPhone as a gaming platform, We've wondered: What about Sony? The company has the PSP fighting (and losing) against Nintendo's (NTDOY) DS, and its Sony Ericsson joint venture has about 8% of the mobile market. Read > Helio Ocean 2 Coming As Soon As Next Month Helio, the "virtual" wireless carrier purchased by Virgin Mobile USA (VM) last year, plans to start selling the second edition of its flagship "Ocean" cellphone sometime this quarter, a company rep tells us. The phone could go on sale as soon as next month. Read > | |
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