alleyinsider.com - 11/10/2008
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Steve Ballmer continues to dismiss the idea of acquiring Yahoo--and he's right to: Doing so would still be a disaster. But if Microsoft wants to be a player in the search business--and its current behavior suggests that it still does--combining its search operations with Yahoo's is a must.
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techcrunch.com - 11/13/2008
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techcrunch.com —
Microsoft’s Live.com portal will change significantly this evening.
No longer will it be a simple search engine...
with a few other services bolted on. It’s now a social network, too, pulling in activity information and content from ...
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Sweeping Changes At Live.com: It’s A Social Network!
yhoo.client.shareholder.com - 11/5/2008
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Jerry Yang Jerry Yang CEO and Chief Yahoo
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Taiwanese native raised in San Jose, Calif., co-created the Yahoo! Internet navigational guide in April 1994 with David Filo and co-founded Yahoo! Inc. ...
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Yahoo! Inc. - Management Team
gigaom.com - 11/6/2008
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In hindsight, we are all geniuses or simpletons
— it’s just a matter of how much time...
we give history to ferment. At this point, it doesn’t look like history will be kind to Jerry Yang, who has had the unenviable job of ...
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Yahoo’s Yang Has No Regrets — He Should [GigaOM]
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YouTube to deliver full-length MGM movies. [eFluxMedia] AOL lands big bucks to promote Google's G1 for two days. [AllThingsDigital] Microsoft can't escape it: still needs Yahoo. [SiliconAlleyInsider] IBM blocks Mark Papermaster from working at Apple. [CrunchGear] Big layoffs coming to telecom. [GigaOm] --Andrea Chalupa Related Links First Bytes: Nokia, Playboy, YouTube, Android, Virtual Worlds Yahoo Earnings: Just How Bad? Google Extends Web Search Lead ...
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