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Microsoft bid backs Yahoo into a corner
Feb 4 2008 7:16PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Microsoft Corp.'s $41 billion takeover bid appears to have backed Yahoo Inc. into a corner, leaving the struggling Internet pioneer with the unpleasant choice of selling to a detested rival or pursuing other agonizing alternatives likely to require the help of an even fiercer foe, Google Inc.
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Microsoft bid backs Yahoo into a corner
Feb 4 2008 7:16PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Microsoft Corp.'s $41 billion takeover bid appears to have backed Yahoo Inc. into a corner, leaving the struggling Internet pioneer with the unpleasant choice of selling to a detested rival or pursuing other agonizing alternatives likely to require the help of an even fiercer foe, Google Inc.
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Microsoft bid backs Yahoo into a corner
Feb 4 2008 7:16PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Microsoft Corp.'s $41 billion takeover bid appears to have backed Yahoo Inc. into a corner, leaving the struggling Internet pioneer with the unpleasant choice of selling to a detested rival or pursuing other agonizing alternatives likely to require the help of an even fiercer foe, Google Inc.
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Microsoft bid backs Yahoo into a corner
Feb 4 2008 7:16PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Microsoft Corp.'s $41 billion takeover bid appears to have backed Yahoo Inc. into a corner, leaving the struggling Internet pioneer with the unpleasant choice of selling to a detested rival or pursuing other agonizing alternatives likely to require the help of an even fiercer foe, Google Inc.
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Microsoft bid backs Yahoo into a corner
Feb 4 2008 7:16PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Microsoft Corp.'s $41 billion takeover bid appears to have backed Yahoo Inc. into a corner, leaving the struggling Internet pioneer with the unpleasant choice of selling to a detested rival or pursuing other agonizing alternatives likely to require the help of an even fiercer foe, Google Inc.
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Microsoft bid backs Yahoo into a corner
Feb 4 2008 7:16PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Microsoft Corp.'s $41 billion takeover bid appears to have backed Yahoo Inc. into a corner, leaving the struggling Internet pioneer with the unpleasant choice of selling to a detested rival or pursuing other agonizing alternatives likely to require the help of an even fiercer foe, Google Inc.
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Microsoft bid backs Yahoo into a corner
Feb 4 2008 7:16PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Microsoft Corp.'s $41 billion takeover bid appears to have backed Yahoo Inc. into a corner, leaving the struggling Internet pioneer with the unpleasant choice of selling to a detested rival or pursuing other agonizing alternatives likely to require the help of an even fiercer foe, Google Inc.
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Microsoft bid backs Yahoo into a corner
Feb 4 2008 7:16PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Microsoft Corp.'s $41 billion takeover bid appears to have backed Yahoo Inc. into a corner, leaving the struggling Internet pioneer with the unpleasant choice of selling to a detested rival or pursuing other agonizing alternatives likely to require the help of an even fiercer foe, Google Inc.
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Microsoft bid backs Yahoo into a corner
Feb 4 2008 7:16PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Microsoft Corp.'s $41 billion takeover bid appears to have backed Yahoo Inc. into a corner, leaving the struggling Internet pioneer with the unpleasant choice of selling to a detested rival or pursuing other agonizing alternatives likely to require the help of an even fiercer foe, Google Inc.
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Microsoft bid backs Yahoo into a corner
Feb 4 2008 7:16PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Microsoft Corp.'s $41 billion takeover bid appears to have backed Yahoo Inc. into a corner, leaving the struggling Internet pioneer with the unpleasant choice of selling to a detested rival or pursuing other agonizing alternatives likely to require the help of an even fiercer foe, Google Inc.
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Google dips below $500 for 1st time
Feb 4 2008 7:00PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Shares of Google Inc. on Monday fell below $500 for the first time since August, days after a lackluster fourth-quarter earnings report and a $42 billion buyout offer from Microsoft Corp. for Google's largest rival, Yahoo Inc.
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Google dips below $500 for 1st time
Feb 4 2008 7:00PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Shares of Google Inc. on Monday fell below $500 for the first time since August, days after a lackluster fourth-quarter earnings report and a $42 billion buyout offer from Microsoft Corp. for Google's largest rival, Yahoo Inc.
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Kodak offers improved camera chip
Feb 4 2008 5:33PM (CT)
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) - Eastman Kodak Co. said Monday it has developed an image sensor that greatly improves the quality of pictures and video captured by camera phones.
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AT&T hikes broadband prices
Feb 4 2008 5:18PM (CT)
SAN ANTONIO (AP) - Beginning next month, AT&T Inc. will raise the price of its most common broadband Internet services in many of the states where it operates, a company spokesman said Monday.
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New medical device chip uses less power
Feb 4 2008 5:15PM (CT)
DALLAS (AP) - Texas Instruments Inc. engineers and MIT researchers say they've designed a new chip that consumes less power and can be used in devices as varied as medical implants and sensors that detect enemy tanks.
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Microsoft ready with Vista upgrade pack
Feb 4 2008 4:56PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - Microsoft Corp. said it sent a major package of upgrades and fixes for Windows Vista, its latest operating system, off to manufacturers for mass production on Monday.
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Microsoft ready with Vista upgrade pack
Feb 4 2008 4:56PM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - Microsoft Corp. said it sent a major package of upgrades and fixes for Windows Vista, its latest operating system, off to manufacturers for mass production on Monday.
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Google faces uphill fight with Microsoft
Feb 4 2008 3:30PM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Google's effort to raise antitrust concerns about Microsoft's $42 billion bid for Yahoo has several flaws, analysts said.
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Cell-phone directory assistance closing
Feb 4 2008 3:28PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Intelius Inc., a startup that launched online directory assistance for cell-phone numbers, has shut down the service after complaints from consumers and Verizon Wireless.
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Missing Myanmar blogger seen detained
Feb 4 2008 2:55PM (CT)
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - A blogger who was apparently picked up in an Internet crackdown by the Myanmar military government has been seen in detention at a government office, an opposition party spokesman said Monday.
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Microsoft to sell cheaper Xbox in Japan
Feb 4 2008 12:58PM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Microsoft Corp. will start selling a cheaper model of the Xbox 360 video game machine in Japan to woo gamers there, the U.S. software maker said Monday.
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Intel chip boasts 2 billion transistors
Feb 4 2008 12:52PM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Intel Corp. has built a new chip packed with a record 2 billion transistors, more than doubling the processing power of a line of its chips for supercomputers, the company said.
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Industry Standard returns, online only
Feb 4 2008 11:11AM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - An icon of the dot-com era is making a comeback of sorts. The Industry Standard launched Monday in a new online-only format, with news and analysis on the Internet economy and a social networking twist.
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LOVEFiLM to take over DVD business
Feb 4 2008 11:10AM (CT)
LONDON (AP) - Online retailer Amazon.com Inc. and DVD rental subscription company LOVEFiLM International said Monday that LOVEFiLM will acquire Amazon Europe's DVD rental business in the U.K. and Germany.
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Microsoft-Yahoo could skip culture clash
Feb 4 2008 9:05AM (CT)
SEATTLE (AP) - Yahoo's walls are awash in bright purples and yellows, while Microsoft's campus is coated in drab neutrals. Yahoo's co-founder holds the cutesy title of "chief Yahoo," while Bill Gates was "chief software architect."
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Profit plunges at Japan's top telecom
Feb 4 2008 8:51AM (CT)
TOKYO (AP) - Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp., Japan's top telecommunications company, reported a 21.8 percent drop in profit for the April-December period Monday due to declines in voice and fixed-line operations.
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Domain name in the works for post office
Feb 4 2008 8:49AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A new "dot-post" Internet address in the works aims to set apart the electronic services increasingly offered by postal agencies around the world.
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Domain name in the works for post office
Feb 4 2008 8:49AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - A new "dot-post" Internet address in the works aims to set apart the electronic services increasingly offered by postal agencies around the world.
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Postal agencies respond to mail decline
Feb 4 2008 8:48AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Marty Sellers used to need about a hundred postage stamps every three months. These days, he can stretch that supply to last a year.
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Postal agencies respond to mail decline
Feb 4 2008 8:48AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Marty Sellers used to need about a hundred postage stamps every three months. These days, he can stretch that supply to last a year.
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Postal agencies respond to mail decline
Feb 4 2008 8:48AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Marty Sellers used to need about a hundred postage stamps every three months. These days, he can stretch that supply to last a year.
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Postal agencies respond to mail decline
Feb 4 2008 8:48AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Marty Sellers used to need about a hundred postage stamps every three months. These days, he can stretch that supply to last a year.
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Postal agencies respond to mail decline
Feb 4 2008 8:48AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Marty Sellers used to need about a hundred postage stamps every three months. These days, he can stretch that supply to last a year.
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Postal agencies respond to mail decline
Feb 4 2008 8:48AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Marty Sellers used to need about a hundred postage stamps every three months. These days, he can stretch that supply to last a year.
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Postal agencies respond to mail decline
Feb 4 2008 8:48AM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - Marty Sellers used to need about a hundred postage stamps every three months. These days, he can stretch that supply to last a year.
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Google assails Microsoft over Yahoo deal
Feb 4 2008 7:59AM (CT)
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Google Inc. raised the specter of Microsoft Corp. using its proposed $42 billion acquisition of Yahoo Inc. to gain illegal control over the Internet, underscoring the online search leader's queasiness about its two biggest rivals teaming up.
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Yahoo music users going to RealNetworks
Feb 4 2008 7:28AM (CT)
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Yahoo Inc. will cease operating its online music subscription service and switch its customers to RealNetworks Inc.'s Rhapsody music service as part of a new deal between the companies that calls for Yahoo to promote Rhapsody on its site.
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Elusive Web site offers N. Korean goods
Feb 4 2008 12:16AM (CT)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - Fancy a sleek made-in-North Korea SUV? How about a pair of boxing gloves from the famously pugnacious communist country?
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