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Monthly archive February, 2008

It’s official: Yahoo is distracted by Microsoft offer

It's official. Microsoft's unwanted proposal to buy Yahoo "has created a distraction for our management and uncertainty that may adversely affect our business'', according the company's 10-K filing with the SEC today. That detail showed up in the 10-K Read More →

Crushing crowds trample pristine nature site

If your new site crashes under heavy traffic at launch, even when you've prepared for a surge, that's a sign that you may be on to something. And by that standard, the Encyclopedia of Life got off to a Read More →

That’ll be €899 million, and no, we don’t take dollars

"Talk," says the ever-quotable EU Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes, "is cheap. Flouting the rules is expensive." How expensive? Well, several years of flouting and talking are going to cost Microsoft a record fine of 899 million euros, or about Read More →

Nortel preps for annual human sacrifice

You don't have to confine yourself to the valley to find those "how the mighty have fallen since the boom" stories. A painful one continues to play out in the Great White North. If you see the headline "Nortel Read More →

Quoted

"I'm hoping the two of them will beat each others brains out over search and leave the display market to us. I think it's a mistake. But I think Napoleon said never interrupt your enemy when they're in the middle Read More →

Off Topic

Two excellent adventures in big ideas in Monterey this week -- BIL and TED. Also, if you have a webcam, the Amazing Instant Ascii Cam (thanks, Scot). Read More →
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