Yahoo Still Willing To Deal
After a 15 percent drop in its stock that followed Microsoft's announced abandonment of its Yahoo takeover bid, Yahoo could be right…
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After a 15 percent drop in its stock that followed Microsoft's announced abandonment of its Yahoo takeover bid, Yahoo could be right…
Feeling safe in the knowledge that I could catch up online, I skipped "Lost" last Thursday night and watched PBS's "Carrier" instead. Then, on the ABC website, everything worked fine. But in the future, watching shows on the ABC site may be a little more annoying thanks to extra commercials.
Shares of Yahoo climbed as high as $29.73 on Friday ahead of optimism about a Microsoft-Yahoo deal, but Steve Ballmer's decision to dump the deal after market close rattled Yahoo stock today.
Verizon's win in the FCC auction for the C block of 700MHz spectrum should be stopped unless the company agrees to give existing customers open access privileges, according to Google.
Now that most of the Microsoft-Yahoo stuff is (at least temporarily) out of the way, it's time for the rumor mill to latch onto some other topic. One contender is the possible acquisition of LinkedIn.
Trent Reznor tossed another dart at the music industry by releasing The Slip as a free download.