Microsoft's last offer to Yahoo
June 13, 2008
Software maker was willing to buy Yahoo’s search business and offered to buy a 16 percent stake at $35 a share–above the price Microsoft offered when it was trying to get all of Yahoo.
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Daily Debrief: Checking in on the health and soul of Yahoo
June 13, 2008
In Thursday’s Daily Debrief, CNET News.com’s Kara Tsuboi and Dan Farber discuss the state of the company almost six months after Microsoft’s initial takeover bid.
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Yahoo-Google: Microsoft left searching
June 13, 2008
The software maker’s effort to strengthen its position in online advertising appears to have had the opposite effect, driving Yahoo into Google’s arms.
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Yahoo shareholders push judge for speedier trial date
June 12, 2008
Attorney sends judge letter dishing up more material to support quickly setting a hearing date in the shareholder’s lawsuit over the company’s controversial employee severance plans.
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Icahn issues 'personally liable' warning to Yahoo board
June 12, 2008
Yahoo’s directors may be “personally liable” for signing off on a controversial and potentially expensive employee-severance plan, the billionaire investor contends.
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EU to member nations: "Use more open source"
June 12, 2008
The European Union has some sage words of advice for its member states: Open up to open source.
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Red Hat settles patent suit with Firestar, DataTern
June 12, 2008
Linux provider reaches an agreement with two companies alleging that its JBoss unit had infringed a patent for linking object-oriented software to relational databases.
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Eric Schmidt in conversation with Ken Auletta
June 12, 2008
Live blog: Writer and New Yorker columnist Ken Auletta is interviewing Google Chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt.
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Video: Creating art while counting sheep
June 12, 2008
On a recent visit to the Gray Area Beacon, an art gallery in San Francisco, CNET News.com’s Kara Tsuboi caught up with visual artist Aaron Koblin. His “Flight Patterns” has become a worldwide phenomenon online.
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Give the Jobs cancer story a rest
June 12, 2008
Let’s stop kidding ourselves by claiming there’s a supposed public right to know. If Steve Jobs is ill, Apple will issue a release. Until then, call a cease-fire on the rumors and let’s move on.
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