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Yahoo, Investors Face Off Today
Yahoo's annual meeting takes place amid the fallout of a failed takeover bid by Microsoft, a failed proxy fight for control of the company by Carl Icahn, and plenty of shareholders wondering why they should be happy about missing out on a rich payday.
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Date: 2008-08-01

Yahoo Board Gains Legg Mason's Support
A major institutional investor opted to throw its backing behind the existing Yahoo board of directors, rather than an alternative slate promoted by activist investor Carl Icahn.
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Date: 2008-07-18

Bill Gates Departs Microsoft
The world's wealthiest and most iconic tech geek will devote his years to a massive philanthropic effort aimed at eradicating childhood diseases.
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Date: 2008-06-27

Ballmer: We Can Do A Lot With $50 Billion
The game of will they/won't they acquire Yahoo continues, as Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer bragged to the media about having money to play with means a deal with Yahoo isn't a necessity.
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Date: 2008-05-23

Amazon, New York In Tax Spat
Amazon.com launched its response to New York's attempt to force it to collect state sales taxes by filing a lawsuit.
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Date: 2008-05-02

Yahoo Juggles Its Options With Microsoft
The board of directors faces a ticking clock at Yahoo, as a week has passed since Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer promised Yahoo they needed to make a decision on Microsoft's takeover bid in 3 weeks.
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Date: 2008-04-11

Feds Flatten 3Com Purchase By Bain, Huawei
National security concerns looked like an insurmountable obstacle, causing Bain Capital and China's Huawei Technologies to back off a $2.2 billion bid for 3Com.
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Date: 2008-03-21

Microsoft Meets with Yahoo to Make Its Case
The WSJ is reporting that execs from Microsoft met with Yahoo in an effort to convince the company to accept their unsolicited bid.
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Date: 2008-03-14

Browser Market Seeing Netscape Depart
Microsoft turned Internet browsing from an application license driven economy to one supported by advertising and deals with search engines for default placement.
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Date: 2008-02-29

Chambers: Slow Spending Hurting Tech Sector
Cisco CEO John Chambers gave the market a cold bath with his assessment of the economy, and its impact on technology spending for 2008. Now it's Cisco taking a dip.
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Date: 2008-02-08

eBay Rises On Outperform Rating
Bear Stearns analyst Robert Peck thinks the online marketplace will step up in its Wall Street performance this year.
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Date: 2008-01-18

Startup Plans WiFi Where Google Failed
Plans for free wireless access for San Francisco could come to fruition if a startup called Meraki can do what Google and EarthLink could not: satisfy the local bureaucracy.
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Date: 2008-01-04

ComVentures merges with Velocity to form...
...Velocity Interactive Group. Comprised of some of the most experienced and visionary investors, executives and entrepreneurs...
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Date: 2007-12-18

Chris Sacca Dumps Google For Investing Career
The main person spearheading Google's WiFi efforts will jump from the Googleplex at the end of December.
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Date: 2007-12-13

Google To Bid On Wireless Spectrum
Speculation on Google's intent upon participating in the FCC's 700MHz wireless auction next year reached its terminus when the company confirmed it will bid for the spectrum.
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Date: 2007-11-30

Apple Freed From Option Backdating Lawsuit
Apple received an early holiday present as its request for dismissal of a suit against CEO Steve Jobs and other company executives earned a California judge's approval.
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Date: 2007-11-16

ValueClick Flat On Q3 Profit
The Federal Trade Commission has been looking into ValueClick's lead generation model, which likely contributed to weakness in that part of the business.
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Date: 2007-11-02

Oracle Waves $6.66B At BEA
Web middleware provider BEA has an all-cash offer on the table from Oracle for $6.66 billion, an acquisition that would put Oracle against IBM for the application server market.
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Date: 2007-10-12

DivX: Yahoo's Possible YouTube Killer?
The video tools company DivX will shift away from promoting Google's toolbar to Yahoo's in early November, as part of a new two-year deal.
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Date: 2007-09-28

Google: DoubleClick Deal Not Privacy Motivator
Google has faced intense and sometimes bitter scrutiny over its proposed acquisition of ad network DoubleClick, but Google's forthcoming privacy standard proposal doesn't stem from that deal.
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Date: 2007-09-14

JAVA Becomes Sun's Face On Wall Street
Sun Microsystems plans to retire its SUNW ticker symbol in favor of JAVA, in order to better represent what the company focuses on these days.
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Date: 2007-08-24

Answers.com Smacked By Google Algorithm
The company recently made a $100 million purchase of the domain name Dictionary.com and the firm that owned it. Answers is about to learn the wisdom of that investment.
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Date: 2007-08-03

Google, Microsoft Reveal Quarterly Earnings
The competitors presented different results to their investors this week, with Google missing earnings by 3 cents while Microsoft closed its fiscal year with a 7 percent increase in profit.
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Date: 2007-07-20

Apple iPhone Battery Program Draws Ire
The positive press and big financial boost from the sale of as many as 500,000 iPhones may be tempered by the harsh reality of Apple's policies.
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Date: 2007-07-06

Bad News For PayPal: Google Checkout
Google's alternative payment system has been gaining on eBay's PayPal by gaining greater adoption than the streamlined PayPal Express service.
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Date: 2007-06-22


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