| Yahoo, MSN Brands Could Both Survive A Microsoft Buyout
Microsoft would be better off continuing to offer both Yahoo and MSN sites to maximize traffic and ad dollars, says Jonathan Hurd, director of Altman Vilandrie & Co., a business consulting firm. "This deal is really about advertising and monetizing eyeballs," he said. "You want to see both of these brands continuing, so they don't lose any of these users." Combining Yahoo and MSN services such as finance, real estate, video, travel, e-mail and instant messaging would be a tough but potentially rewarding process, says Shahid Khan, a partner for IBB Consulting Group. "There would be a lot of redundancy there," he said. "It would take two to three years to get it done." Yahoo ranked as the Web's top property in the U.S. in December, with more than 183 million visitors to its sites, according to comScore Networks.
House'': Polar Opposites
The computer-sex bits with House were McSteamy, once again making me feel sad for the guy because he is so stilted with women. Mira Sorvino seemed like a good match for him, and I would have loved to witness her psychologically take down House's walls, but there was too much else going on, and the actress has only signed on for one episode. Still, it almost counts as a psych consult. In my fantasy programming, House would end up on Celebrity Rehab With Dr. Drew. Meanwhile, the Wilson subplot was such a surprise. I thought his new girlfriend would turn out to be Cuddy, since that is what House was thinking, too. I did not see Cutthroat Bitch as the logical lust object for our oncologist sidekick, and still don't, but then the preview for the next episode spelled out the attraction. C.B.
Clinton's confidence dwindles as aides face her campaign's possible ...
Look how Maccains is already toeing Bush line to support nakedly, shamefully one Mushraff of Pakistan, a ruthless killer,liar,power exploiter, who befooled you for consolidating his power@ our 100s of billionsUSD for Bushs' flawed policies. His nation rejected him in electoral votes, general elections. Their counties political parties want him to leave; the most heinous lying brute but Bush Rice, Gates, Maccaine are forcing the winning political parties to keep Bush anointed blackmailer, no less myopic is Obama. In turn what will happen; entire nation will become Taliban whom they voted out in elections JUST BECAUSE OUR WRONG CHOICES.MY CHOICE IS HILLARY. .
Stocks Fall on Bleak Corporate Forecasts
Shares of Airbus' parent company surged Monday after the French planemaker snatched a $40 billion U.S. Air Force contract from its American rival, the Boeing Co. European Aeronautic Defence and Space Co. and its U.S. partner, Los Angeles-based Northrop Grumman, won the contract to build military refueling planes Friday, one of the biggest Pentagon contracts in decades. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) .
Larry Dignan
Between the Lines Latest Post | Last 10 Posts | Archives Meanwhile back at the Yahoo ranch, Flickr Video is coming soon Posted in: Google Microsoft Yahoo YouTube Updated 3:33 PST: With the unsolicited bid by Microsoft, and potentially other suitors (TechCrunch reports News Corp. trying to put together a bid) who want to derail the combination, Yahoo has its hands full. I expect that ultimately Microsoft will succeed in its two-year quest to bring Yahoo into its camp and more rapidly and decisively move its business from the Windows to the Live era (compete with Google). While the Yahoo board is figuring out what's an acceptable price, distracted Yahoo employees must continue to toil away in the aftermath of a 7 percent reduction in workforce announced a few days ago and a beating by financial community, press and pundits, who were not impressed with Yahoo's recent earnings and outlook.
Intel christens Silverthorne as “Atom”
George Ou Latest Post | Last 10 Posts | Archives Previous Post: Microsoft's free enterprise search is a must try Next Post: A geek's trip to Capitol Hill on Network Management Intel christens Silverthorne as "Atom" Posted in: Servers News Hardware Desktop Virtualization Energy efficiency - green Processors Intel Storage Consumer electronics Build it yourself Intel has officially announced its new branding for the "Silverthorne" processor and the "Menlow" platform. The Silverthorne processor will be called the "Intel Atom". The Menlow platform will be called "Intel Centrino Atom". The Intel Atom processor will be used in the Intel Centrino Atom platform. The new Atom logos are shown below. Intel released technical details of the new Silverthorne processor last month at ISSCC 2008.
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