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Mark Cuban rips the Donald
My internet adventures have led me to sites that have made me smile, cry, be happy, and get sad. It’s a rarity to come across one that makes me go, “oh damn!” That’s what happened today as I read Mark Cuban’s blog, and specifically a post titled “Donald- Need a job?”
The basis of Cuban’s latest […]By JOHN PAUL NEWPORT and RUSSELL ADAMS
Early one Friday afternoon about 20 years ago, Wendy Baker, then a senior vice president at the insurance company Continental, was leaving her office when she ran into another female executive.
“Where is everyone?” Ms. Baker asked. Many of the company’s executive men were off at a golf outing. “We’re […]TOKYO, Japan (AP) — In the race for ever-thinner displays for TVs, cell phones and other gadgets, Sony may have developed one to beat them all — a razor-thin display that bends like paper while showing full-color video.
Sony Corp. released video of the new 2.5-inch display Friday. In it, a hand squeezes a display that […]If aQuantive exits the deal early, it will have to pay Microsoft $175 million.
By Paul McDougall
InformationWeek
If Microsoft pulls a Jennifer Willbanks — the Georgia bride who made headlines after fleeing the altar and going missing in 2005 — and backs out of its deal to acquire online advertising firm aQuantive, it will cost the company […]Okay, what’s the deal? Numerous people across North America are subjected to relentless phone calls and emails by resort development agencies expanding their timeshare network. Personal contact information for the target market is no secret in this world. National statistics provide these agencies with all the information you DO NOT want them to know- that’s […]
By Richard Koman for Silicon Valley Watcher
Steve Jobs performance at Apple’s annual meeting yesterday was nothing short of outrageous, shareholders charged, as the CEO refused to let a board director answer a question and laughed off a suggestion that he give up restricted stock he received in exchange for backdated options. He said the stock […]by Catherine Holahan
For YouTube’s top video creators, being compensated for the Web traffic and ad impressions they generate isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.By Tom Foremski for Silicon Valley Watcher
FAST Search and Transfer, the leading European search firm, introduced a search based business platform for media companies and said that search traffic from its customers has surpassed Yahoo! and will overtake Google in 2 years.
The Norwegian based company said its FASTMedia software platform is the first to match […]After the $580 million sale of MySpace to Murdoch’s NewsCorp, and around the time of the $1.76 billion sale of YouTube to Google, Facebook came up on the chopping block. Yahoo moved aggressively and bid $2 billion; then the 22 year-old CEO and founder of Facebook shocked the world and said, “no thanks.” What is […]
By Steve Goldstein, MarketWatch
Last Update: 5:59 PM ET May 4, 2007
LONDON (MarketWatch) — When Tampa Bay Buccaneers owner Malcolm Glazer acquired Manchester United in a deal worth about $1.4 billion in 2005 dollars, he was buying a soccer team viewed by many as the New York Yankees of international sports, with a fan base stretching […]When you hear about companies being sold for millions (sometimes billions) of dollars, an image of a suitcase bursting full of money may come to mind, or even a bank statement that has 7 figures on it. This is unfortunately not the case- the buyout is generally done as a stock deal, where the purchasing […]
Apple fans and tech junkies got an overdose of silicon power when Apple announced an 8-core Xeon processor MacPro.
I admit to being a bit of a technophiliac myself, and so this news and the flashy new pictures on the Apple website had me salivating, even though I have no idea what the hell an […]Bloomberg.com: News
By Jonathan Thaw
Facebook, the second-most popular social networking Web site, will work with Comcast Corp. to encourage users to create video diaries for the Internet and for cable television.
Users will be able to contribute and share videos on Comcast’s Ziddio Web site starting in March, Facebook said today in a statement. Comcast, the biggest […]‘Hacker. Dropout. CEO.’ That is how one recent article described Mark Zuckerberg, the 22 year-old CEO and founder/creator of Facebook. They forgot Genius. Born and raised in a small town in New York state, he began programming computers in 6th grade. A pivotal point in his life came during high school, when he transferred […]