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Microsoft Settles With New Yorkers For $12
Microsoft has settled with the state of New York for $350 million.
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Google, AOL Need More Time To Consummate
The billion-dollar investment Google will make with AOL has proved complex enough to require Google to move the anticipated completion date for the deal to the second quarter of '06.
Using Digg to Game the Stock Market
In yesterday's show #120 of FIR: The Hobson & Holtz Report podcast, Shel and I talked about the teenager who gamed Google News with a fake press release.
Zawodny Wants Delicious Yahoos
Yahoo blogger Jeremy Zawodny has put out the call on Yahoo's Search Blog for talented people to fill openings for three types of job roles supporting Delicious and other Yahoo social media services; as with most things though, all is not as it seems.
Startups, Y Combinator Style
In the last week I've had the chance to play with a few new services that have begun to appear:
Microsoft Spending Big To Beat IBM
The business market for software just became a little more heated, as Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced a $500 million marketing campaign to try and boost Microsoft's fortunes at IBM's expense.
