Posted Tuesday July 8, 2008, 12:56 am, Over one day old
AFP - Yahoo's stock price jumped nearly 12 percent after Microsoft said Monday it is willing to reopen talks on a "major transaction" with Yahoo if the Internet giant replaces its board of directors.
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Posted Tuesday July 8, 2008, 12:56 am, Over one day old
AP - Developers of a highly popular but unauthorized version of Scrabble for the online hangout Facebook vowed Tuesday to do just that, now that a video game maker has weighed in with an official version of the word game.
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Posted Tuesday July 8, 2008, 12:56 am, Over one day old
USATODAY.com - NEW YORK - Magazine buying may get an Internet-era makeover in September when Time Inc. launches Maghound, a service that promises to blend the convenience of subscriptions with the flexibility of newsstand sales.
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Posted Tuesday July 8, 2008, 12:56 am, Over one day old
PC World - Google has open-sourced its internal data exchange language, according to official blog posts.
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Posted Tuesday July 8, 2008, 12:56 am, Over one day old
AP - Microsoft Corp. is strengthening its early-stage push to fend off competition by offering more Internet-based software, a change from its traditional method of selling programs that run on individual desktops or corporate servers.
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Posted Tuesday July 8, 2008, 12:56 am, Over one day old
Reuters - Microsoft Corp introduced on Wednesday
pricing for its suite of online services targeted at corporate
customers and a revenue-sharing plan to encourage other
companies to sell the software company's products.
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Posted Tuesday July 8, 2008, 12:56 am, Over one day old
PC World - IBM launched on Tuesday an application that seeks to harness the time of Internet users to make the Web more accessible to the...
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Posted Tuesday July 8, 2008, 12:56 am, Over one day old
CNET - Investor activist Carl Icahn needed a sign, a tangible sign, that Microsoft was still interested in buying Yahoo, or at a minimum, its search business, if he were to increase his chances of winning his proxy fight to unseat the company's entire board of directors.
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Posted Tuesday July 8, 2008, 12:56 am, Over one day old
Reuters - Matthew McConaughey's Brazilian
girlfriend has given birth to a boy, People magazine reported
on its Web site on Tuesday.
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Posted Tuesday July 8, 2008, 12:56 am, Over one day old
AP - Microsoft Corp. threw its weight behind investor Carl Icahn's effort to dump Yahoo Inc.'s board, saying Monday that a successful shareholder rebellion would encourage the software maker to renew its bid to buy Yahoo's Internet search engine or possibly the entire company.
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