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Yesterday, Digg announced that it was changing the way it handles some links with regards to the nofollow attribute. The point of the changes is to cut down on Digg spam. Digg is now adding rel="nofollow" to any external link that they aren’t sure they can "vouch for." This means:
– External links from comments
– External links from user profiles
Microsoft’s board of directors has approved a share buyback for Microsoft to the tune of $40 billion, with an expiration date of September 30, 2013.The board also declared a quarterly dividend of $0.13 per share, reflecting a two cent or 18 percent increase over the previous quarter’s dividend. Said dividend is payable December 11, 2008 to shareholders of record on November 20, 2008. The ex-dividend date will be November 18, 2008.
Joint Photographic Experts Group, which owns the JPEG standard, has voted to make Microsoft’s HD Photo their new standard, under the name JPEG XR.
This week a San Jose federal judge approved a settlement in the class action click fraud suit brought against Yahoo from several advertisers looking to recuperate $5 million in legal fees and credits for fraudulent clicks that date back nearly three years.
The Java Community Process (JCP) gave the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) 5 specification its complete approval ahead of the JavaOne Conference.
America West and US Airways have received approval from the Air Transportation Stabilization Board (ATSB) to go forward with their merger.
The parent company of Answers.com, GuruNet Corporation, announced it will start trading on NASDAQ in August.
The Neiman Marcus Group’s Board of Directors has approved the sale of the Company to an investment group made up of Texas Pacific Group and Warburg Pincus.
Yesterday shareholders of Sears, Roebuck and Co. and Kmart Holding Corporation approved the merger of the two companies.
IBM and Lenovo have been given clearance by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. (CFIUS) to complete the sale of IBM’s PC Division to Lenovo.
