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| Wednesday, February 25, 2009 |
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 Surprise! Yahoo Now Has Edge In Microsoft Search NegotiationsRemember Yahoo's boneheaded refusal of that excellent takeover offer from Microsoft? So do we. We also remember how our shares in the company immediately plummeted from $30 to $10 when Yahoo finally blew the deal and Microsoft walked away. If Yahoo doesn't get its act together and get its shares back to the buyout price it sniffed at last summer, this will go down as one of the most colossal mistakes in corporate history (AOL - Time Warner being in a different league). All that said... Read >  I Love The Way Carol Bartz Fired MeMicrosoft to Wall Street: We're Still Spending | |
| The 16 Execs Now Reporting To Rupert Murdoch In a memo to staff about COO Peter Chernin's departure, Rupert Murdoch says there needs to be "a streamlined management" at News Corp. No kidding. Check the list Pali Research's Rich Greenfield put together of Rupert's direct reports. Read > | |
| 5 Reasons Chernin's Exit Puts Hulu In Danger News Corp COO Peter Chernin's decision to semi-retire into a movie-producing career leaves Web TV startup Hulu -- a News Corp and NBC joint venture -- without its most powerful ally in Hollywood. The timing could be worse, but not much. Read > | |
| Ballmer: No Office 14 This Year Yesterday, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and CFO Chris Liddell gave their annual mid-year "strategic update" to Wall Street and told analysts that Office 14 "will not be this year." That's in line with earlier rumors that Office 14 might slip until 2010. And interestingly, this morning Steve never mentioned the G-word (Google Apps), only talking about OpenOffice as a real competitor to the MS Office line. (Which differs from an interview Steve gave earlier this month where he acknowledged "there have certainly been accounts where they [Google Apps] show up.") Read > | |
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Apple is famous for keeping its gadget pricing steady. But the iPhone app store is a much different market: App developers have cut prices significantly in the last few months. And the market for $10 premium apps seems to have evaporated. Read > Motorola, Like Nokia, Stops Trying To Beat RIM's Email Mobile phone makers are realizing they have much more important tasks than trying to beat BlackBerry maker Research In Motion at mobile e-mail. Read > Gmail Goes Down, Again Another major outage at Google's Gmail overnight, with the service going down for about four hours. Like most Americans, we slept through it. Read > Google Joining Europe's Anti-Microsoft Antitrust Pile-On The European Union's ridiculous antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft for bundling IE together with Windows is gathering more momentum. Read > Hearst May Close SF Chronicle Hearst says it might have to sell or close the San Francisco Chronicle if it can't lay off a "significant" number of employees "within weeks." Read > | |
| Jeff Bezos Talks Kindle 2 With Jon Stewart (Video)Kindle 2 Packaging Slimmer. Greener?What Do You Want To Know About Amazon's Kindle 2?Pogue on Amazon's Kindle 2: 'Design Feels Right' | |
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