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Yahoo, What are You Thinking?
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| OK, I'm not sure what's going on in the
| minds of the geniuses over at Yahoo but
| just today they removed the Linux/Open
| Source link under News/Tech is gone. Its
| replacement? Social Media. Thanks Yahoo.
| That's really clever. NOT! In the realm of
| things dumb, that takes second place right
| under iPad early adopters. But that's OK.
| We still have lxer.com, linuxtoday.com and
| lwn.net where we can get our news. Thanks
| Yahoo, you helped us.
|
| Yes, helped us.
|
| [...]
|
| Dear Yahoo:
|
| Reinstate the Linux/Open Source category
| under News/Tech or else. Or else, all the
| Open Source and Linux nerds in the world
| will say, "Nee." And, we'll continue to
| say, "Nee" until you submit.
|
| "Nee!"
|
| There, I said it.
|
| What do you think of Yahoo's obvious faux
| pas of removing Linux/Open Source from
| their News/Tech area and replacing it with
| the ultra lame Social Media?
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http://www.daniweb.com/news/story284268.html
Hotmail Shoots Foot
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| An e-mail system that will not work with
| PDF wonât work for us.
|
| One of the things I do with PDF is to
| attach my resume. I have only once
| encountered an employer who could not deal
| with that. A few say they want .DOC but I
| send PDF anyways and I get the job. I
| doubt Gmail will exclude PDF any time
| soon. With GNU/Linux I can produce PDFs
| easily in my word-processor and I can
| convert almost any document to PDF.
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http://pogson.6k.ca/2010/05/18/hotmail-shoots-foot/
Recent:
Exclusive: Yahoo Eyes Ex-Microsoft Exec Blake Irving for Top Product and Tech
Job; CTO Balogh to Leave
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| According to numerous sources, Yahoo has been
| seriously courting former Microsoft exec Blake
| Irving to take over as one of its key execs,
| running its product organization and
| essentially becoming the Internet âvisionaryâ
| many think the company lacks.
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http://kara.allthingsd.com/20100408/exclusive-yahoo-eyes-ex-microsoft-exec-blake-irving-for-top-product-and-tech-job/
Yahoo CTO Balogh To Leave; Replacement To Be Named In âComing Weeksâ
http://paidcontent.org/article/419-yahoo-cto-balogh-to-leave-replacement-to-be-named-in-coming-weeks/
Does Icahn Still Make Them Tremble?
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| In the spring of 2008, Roy J. Bostock, the
| chairman of Yahoo, and his fellow directors
| were coming under a barrage of criticism
| from investors after Microsoft abruptly
| broke off merger talks.
|
| [...]
|
| Mr. Icahn said that while his firm did not
| make money in Yahoo, it was supportive in
| bringing on board Carol A. Bartz, the
| companyâs C.E.O., and instrumental in
| eventually forging an Internet search and
| advertising partnership with Microsoft. As
| for the criticism from Mr. Jackson that his
| methods do not work, Mr. Icahn said, âTo
| say that we donât add value is absurd.â
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http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/21/does-icahn-still-make-them-tremble/
Google China move puts pressure on Microsoft, Yahoo
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/0325/Google-China-move-puts-pressure-on-Microsoft-Yahoo
Icahn's Influence Fading From Yahoo's Board
http://www.nasdaq.com/aspx/stock-market-news-story.aspx?storyid=201003231842dowjonesdjonline000490&title=icahns-influence-fading-from-yahoos-board
Yet Another Yahoo Director To Leave
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| Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) CEO Carol Bartz now has
| a third board seat she can fill. John
| Chapple, the president of PE firm Hawkeye
| Investments (and the former CEO of Nextel)
| wonât stand for re-election in order âto
| devote more time to his other business
| interests.â
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http://paidcontent.org/article/419-yet-another-yahoo-director-to-leave/
Yahooâs Revolving Door: Chief Technologist Leaves For Benchmark Capital
http://paidcontent.org/article/419-yahoos-revolving-door-chief-technologist-quits/
Carl Icahn Cuts Yahoo Stake By 80 Percent
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| Obviously, then, Icahn doesn't intend to go on
| the attack against Carol Bartz and the current
| board, which might be good news for Yahoo.
| Optimists could interpret Icahn's move as a
| sign of contentment. (Or perhaps he managed to
| reap some profits at one point.)
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http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2010/02/15/carl-icahn-cuts-yahoo-stake-by-80-percent
Yahoo! Microsoft! deal! delayed!
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| Yahoo! has told the Securities and Exchange
| Commission that it needs more time to sort
| out its search deal with Microsoft.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/29/yahoo_microsoft_delayed/
Microsoft, Yahoo Miss Agreement Deadline
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| Yahoo admitted yesterday in an SEC filing,
| "The Letter Agreement specified that the
| parties would execute Definitive Agreements
| by October 27, 2009, but given the complex
| nature of the transaction, there remain some
| details to be finalized. The parties are
| working diligently on finalizing the
| agreements, have made good progress to date,
| and have agreed to execute the agreements as
| expeditiously as possible."
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http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2009/10/29/microsoft-yahoo-miss-agreement-deadline
Carl Icahn, CIT and Goldman Sachs
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| Sooo. We have Carl Icahn offering to bail
| out CIT. We have Goldman Sachs suing Carl
| Icahn over a an entirely different matter.
| We have Goldman looking to profit from a CIT
| collapse. We have Mr. Icahn in a similar
| position, but in a more stealth kind of way.
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http://missmarketcrash.blogspot.com/2009/10/carl-icahn-cit-and-goldman-sachs.html
4th UPDATE: Icahn Offers To Underwrite $6 Billion Loan To CIT
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| In May 2008, for instance, he launched a proxy
| fight to unseat Yahoo Inc.'s (YHOO) board after
| that wobbly web portal rejected a takeover by
| Microsoft...
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http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20091019-712989.html
Yahoo feeling the Microsoft nudge
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| Yahoo shares edged up Tuesday as analysts and the company's own major
| shareholder and director Carl Icahn said they longed for the Internet search
| pioneer to entertain a search-only deal with Microsoft.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10082321-93.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Icahn Says Yahoo Should Do Search Deal With Microsoft
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| Billionaire investor and Yahoo Inc. (YHOO) board member Carl Icahn on Monday
| reiterated his position that the Internet giant should consider striking a
| search agreement with rival Microsoft Corp. (MSFT).
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http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djf500/200811031831DOWJONESDJONLINE000597_FORTUNE5.htm
Minorities and Corn Growers Rise Against Google-Yahoo.
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| A Microsoft funded PR firm is backing an odd collection of "community" groups
| against cooperation between Google and Yahoo. If Justice is blind, they
| should have a hard time blocking anything.
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http://slashdot.org/~twitter/journal/202702
Google-Yahoo! collects some strange enemies
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| The 16 groups wrote to Assistant Attorney General Thomas Barnett, warning
| that such mega-mergers usually work to the detriment of consumers and
| minority groups. It was Barnett who warned that European antitrust action
| against Microsoft might chill innovation and discourage competition.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/12/everyone_against_google_yahoo/
Corn Farmers Against Google?
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| Only if they're planting in AstroTurf
|
| [...]
|
| How do you know the organization, and the op-ed, weren't created by LawMedia
| Group at the behest of some well-funded clients? If they did their jobs
| right, you don't know.
|
| Some of them have left digital fingerprints here and there, though, says
| Declan McCullagh, in a blockbuster of a report exposing the intellectual
| whoredom offered for various important issues. Shortly after Microsoft hired
| LawMedia, for example, legislators, national agencies, and news outlets
| received pointed complaints from coalitions of farmers, rural voters, and
| geeky Latinos about how Google's advertising deal with Yahoo would wreck
| everything.
|
| [...]
|
| Don't call them a PR firm or a lobbying firm though, Law Media â which has a
| ton of lawyers working for them tooâis a "public affairs firm" specializing
| in producing "remarkable coalitions" for anything one might need a coalition
| for.
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http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/08/14/corn-farmers-against-google
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