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Google's Schmidt: Full steam ahead Yahoo ad deal
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| Despite increasing scrutiny from regulators, Google Chief Executive Eric
| Schmidt showed no signs of being deterred from its plan to put into effect
| its search-ad deal with Yahoo less than a month from now.
|
| [...]
|
| Because Android is open-source software, anyone may use and modify it for
| free. "I expect there will be others taking that code and producing phones
| without us," Brin said.
|
| Why invest all that money in a phone operating system? To bring the mobile
| Web to the masses.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10044908-93.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Yahoo testing livelier, more open home page
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| Yahoo has begun offering some users a more personalized home page that the
| company hopes will increase the usage and utility of a Web site that's widely
| used but elderly in Internet years.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10044541-93.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
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[1] 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 – which has a
| ton of lawyers working for them too—is 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
Google/Yahoo web ad deal on track despite anti-trust scrutiny
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| Google says its web advertising deal with Yahoo is on schedule and will not
| be derailed by US anti-trust scrutiny.
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http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2008/08/29/232070/googleyahoo-web-ad-deal-on-track-despite-anti-trust.htm
Icahn and Microsoft to oust Yahoo board
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| CORPORATE RAIDER Carl Icahn and convicted monopolist Microsoft have asked
| Yahoo shareholders to vote out Yahoo's board and install Icahn's proposed
| slate of replacements.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/07/07/icahn-microsoft-team-oust-yahoo
Microsoft cops to talking with Icahn on Yahoo
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| Dispensing with its previous above-the-fray posture, Microsoft has
| admitted -conspiring with- talking to activist Yahoo shareholder Carl Icahn,
| who is trying to oust the Internet company's board and Chief Executive Jerry
| Yang for failing to sell out to the software giant.
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http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2008/06/microsoft-talki.html
Yahoo: Icahn “Manipulates The Facts”
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| The company also says it is “patently untrue” that the company turned down an
| offer of $40 a share from Microsoft and sabotaged the later offer of $33. The
| letter contends that Yahoo’s board “has at all times been focused on
| maximizing shareholder value.”
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http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2008/06/05/yahoo-ichan-manipulates-the-facts/?mod=googlenews_barrons
http://tinyurl.com/64nvv5
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