Microsoft CFO: Yahoo Needs To Hurry Up

Steve Ballmer is perhaps - perhaps - best known for doing monkey dances while covered in sweat.  But if anyone thought he was pushing the Yahoo issue alone, Microsoft CFO Chris Liddell has stepped forward to talk about the situation.

Ouch! Microsoft Profits Skydive

When Steve Ballmer threatened to take the Yahoo deal off the table, that could have been with an eye on the company's woeful financial performance, just announced for their third quarter.

Texting (Probably) Won’t Make Your Kid Dumb

Nothing makes parents and educators more concerned about the youth than the youth's embracing attitude of new technology; when I was a kid video games were rotting our minds, and these days it's, well, everything. A new survey from Pew Internet says, as usual, grownups may be overreacting.

Healthy-Looking Baidu Pushes Wikipedia Alternative

Yahoo this, Microsoft that - it's enough to make you move to China.  Or at least look at China-centric news, in which Baidu is generating headlines for both succeeding financially and pushing its own version of Wikipedia.

eBay Lawsuit Over “Neutral” Feedback

Living in a Radically Transparent world is, it seems, not without risk. Apparently a Seattle man was recently sued for $10,000 because he left a “Neutral” rating for an eBay seller from North Carolina.