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Icahn's Yahoo bid may set up others
The big money speculators hovering over Carl Icahn’s pending proxy fight with Yahoo could have other companies in their sights.
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Ratings, Not Usage, Moves Google Rankings More
Despite massive server farms with processing power to burn through mountains of user data, Google relies on a quaint approach to tweaking its rankings.
Google Wins Communication And Humanities Award
This honor might seem better suited for an individual, and it comes with a cash prize of 50,000 euros that Google really doesn't need. Nonetheless, the search giant has won the 2008 Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities.
Microsoft Trying Out Social Network Technology
A new social network would, at this point, need to be extremely special. The appearance of something Microsoft's working on has been described as "strikingly similar to Facebook's." But TownSquare does have a few unique points, and it's going to get some spotlight time at an upcoming conference.
EFF Sues Rodeo Group Over Removal Of Videos On YouTube
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has asked a federal court to protect the free speech rights of an animal rights group after its video critiques of animal treatment at rodeos were removed from YouTube because of false copyright claims.The group Showing Animals Respect and Kindness (SHARK) is a non-profit that videotapes rodeos in order to expose animal abuse. SHARK posted two dozen videos to YouTube to…
Russian President Wants Cyrillic Internet Domain
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says Russia needs to be assigned an Internet domain name in the Cyrillic script in an effort to promote Russian as an international language.The Kremlin is worried that Russian, once the main language in the Soviet Union is being used less because of local languages and the influence of English.Medvedev said that 300 million people worldwide used Russian media and that…
