techmeme.com - 12/30/2008
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At this moment, the must-read stories in technology are scattered across hundreds of news sites and blogs. That's far too much for any reader to follow. Fortunately, Techmeme arranges all of these links into a single, easy-to-scan page. Story selection is accomplished via computer algorithm ...
fudzilla.com - 12/31/2008
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fudzilla.com —
Image Worldwide cutbacks The rumor that Microsoft was
set to lay off people on January 15th, 2009
is no longer a rumor but a fact. Staff at Microsoft have been informed that the company is readying major layoffs to its worldwide operations and it's ...
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Fudzilla: Microsoft getting ready to lay off 17% of staff
searchengineland.com - 12/31/2008
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searchengineland.com —
Back in June, I spoke at Microsoft as
part of a regular series for those involved with
its webmaster tools group and anyone generally interested in search. My talk was called “Tough Love For Microsoft Search,” and I covered various reasons why I felt ...
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Tough Love For Microsoft Search
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Techmeme Highlights Top 10 Stories Of The Year
TechCrunch —
... The year’s top story was Microsoft’s proposed takeover of Yahoo (in classic Techmeme fashion, McCarthy includes two ’sub-headlines’ under this one, ...
Techmeme's Ten Biggest Stories of 2008
Silicon Alley Insider —
Tech news aggregator Techmeme's new cyborg Megan McCarthy sorted through the site's internal headline ranking data and came up with a list of 2008's biggest stories in tech.
Microsoft Proposes Acquisition of Yahoo! for $31 per Share
Apple Announces Its Last Year at Macworld
Google Chrome, Google's Browser Project
To Our Developers (Apple rescinds its NDA for iPhone developers)
Google Is Taking Questions (Spoken, via iPhone)
Google to buy Valve (A rumor that proved ...
Let this be the last list of 2008 ... please
L.A. Times Tech Blog —
... " bucks the trend, eschewing individual judgment to pick its winners algorithmically. Techmeme decides which stories are hot based on how much coverage they're getting, and from whom. So if you click on it's No. 1 story -- Microsoft's plans to buy Yahoo -- you can see all the outlets that wrote about it at the time -- a reasonable measure of a story's impact. Calling its list "objective" is Techmeme being tongue-in-cheeky, of course, because ...
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kara.allthingsd.com 1/8/2009 —
How can BoomTown put it plainly?
The alleged deal being cooked up by a group of Silicon Valley investors to take a run at Yahoo, using money raised from Microsoft, is little more than what we used to call a “trial balloon” when I ...
Microsoft-Yahoo $20 Billion Search Deal Hogwash - Levinsohn
alleyinsider.com 11/30/2008 — The Times of London reports the details of an intricate pending Microsoft-Yahoo deal, in which Microsoft would buy Yahoo's search business for $20 billion and install Jon Miller and Ross Levinsohn to run the company. The concept sounds reasonable ...
Investment Group Makes Run For Yahoo, Using Microsoft’s Money
techcrunch.com 1/7/2009 — Interest in troubled Internet giant Yahoo has not waned, it just took a break for the holidays. A group of well known Silicon Valley executives and top investment bankers are putting together a Yahoo takeover deal that would be financed largely from ...
Microsoft in $20bn Yahoo deal
business.timesonline.co.uk 11/30/2008 — SOFTWARE giant Microsoft is in talks to acquire Yahoo s online search business for $20 billion ( 13 billion). The proposal forms the centrepiece of a complex transaction that would see Microsoft support a new management team to take control of ...
Microsoft's Web Plan - WSJ.com
macnn.com 12/5/2008 — NICK WINGFIELD After a nearly five month search, Microsoft Corp. on Thursday said it has found a new executive to lead its charge against Google Inc. in the online search and advertising business: Qi Lu, a technologist who was previously a top ...
Ballmer’s email to the troops on Microsoft’s Qi Lu hire
venturebeat.com 12/5/2008 — Microsoft has hired Qi Lu, a former executive with Yahoo, as the new president of its Online Services Group. What does that mean? Lu will be in charge of search and online advertising for the software giant — the two fields which it desperately ...
Microsoft, Yahoo! Change Search Landscape (Microsoft)
techmeme.com 7/29/2009 — Microsoft :
Microsoft, Yahoo! Change Search Landscape — Global Deal Creates Better Choice for Consumers and Advertisers — Yahoo! and Microsoft announced an agreement that will improve the Web search ...
Windows 7 beta washes up on Pirate Bay —
The Register 1/2/2009
If we build it they will come Microsoft is set to release the first beta of its upcoming operating system Windows 7 at some point this month, but ahead of that release the trial version has already – unsurprisingly – landed on BitTorrent sites.…
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