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Despite massive server farms with processing power to burn through mountains of user data, Google relies on a quaint approach to tweaking…
Last week's letter war between Carl Icahn and Yahoo chairman Roy Bostock was just a preview of what's to come. Ichan and company have challenged Yahoo's employee retention plan (Icahn calls it a severance plan) in a Delaware court. Slated to go to trial in July, the legal matter will be settled in advance of the annual shareholders meeting on August 1.
This may or not be taught in PR 101, perhaps because the general tenet is obvious: Don't screw up good PR with bad PR. We'll chalk this one up to Metallica's management and not to the band itself, just to be fair.
The executive vice president of Yahoo's network division may be heading out the door. Jeff Weiner apparently plans to return from a four-week paternity leave, but rumor has it he won't stick around for long afterwards.
It wasn't that long ago the people behind Encyclopedia Britannica turned an academic nose up toward Wikipedia for its populist ways. That may have been a tad premature, especially when one counts 57 million monthly visitors versus Britannica's three million. Then again, Britannica's three million are paying visitors.
A site's flash intro may be appealing the first time you see it. The second, third, and four hundredth times, not so much. So what appears to be a new "skip intro" button from Google is an interesting gift.
