Microsoft walks away from its Yahoo bid, Apple is ranked best in customer service and worst in environmental friendliness, the Pope uses text messages to reach youth and Grand Theft Auto IV shakes the gaming industry with sales of 6 million units in its first week… and more. Download this episode (right click + Save [...]
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Yesterday evening, Microsoft withdrew its bid for Yahoo, which had increased to $42.3 billion. According to an MSNBC.com article, Microsoft was willing to go up to $47.5 billion, but Yahoo demanded at least $53 billion. There was talk of a hostile takeover by Microsoft, but Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer, felt that such a move would [...]
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It seems users just don’t want to give up Windows XP. A little over a week ago, I wrote a short article discussing the future of Windows Vista and stated how there has been growing support to keep Windows XP as the default operating system for many computers. As this recent MSNBC.com article illustrates, this [...]
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The protracted battle being waged by Microsoft to acquire Yahoo seems to have no end in sight for the foreseeable future. Yahoo has been considering all of its options since Microsoft first approached the company with its more than $40 billion offer, including a merger with AOL, a division of Time Warner. In a move [...]
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Popular online photo site (and Yahoo-owned) Flickr announced yesterday that it will allow its users, its Pro members that is, the ability to upload video to the popular service which has about 42 million users a month. Although only Pro members can upload videos, any user can view videos. The new feature will allow Pro [...]
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