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by Josh Levin, Slate
A casulaty of the format war tells all.
by Miguel Helft, New York Times
We can do it. We can mesh our technologies and our cultures. And we'll keep the Yahoo name alive.
by Heng-Cheong Leong, MyAppleMenu
Tomorrow, I will be starting my 2.5 weeks of reservist duties. So, updates to this website will be very infrequent and minimal. Regular updates will only resume on the 1st of March, when I finally resume my civilian life.
by Henry Blodget, Silicon Alley Insider
Microsoft's misconception: "Cloud computing" = software supported by advertising.
by Andrew Ross Sorkin and Miguel Helft, New York Times
Yahoo's board plans to reject Microsoft's $44.6 billion hostile bid in a letter on Monday, saying the offer undervalues Yahoo, people involved in the discussions said Saturday.
by Apophenia
When companies host all of your data and have the ability to delete you and it at-will, all sorts of nighmarish science fiction futures are possible.
by David Pogue, New York Times
by Eric Zeman, InformationWeek
by Erica Naone, MIT Technology Review
If Microsoft purchases Yahoo, the popular internet property would contribute a lot more than ad revenue.
by Heng-Cheong Leong, MyAppleMenu
This website is going on hiatus for the rest of Feb. Updates will be minimal and irregular, as I celebrates Chinese New Year, followed by 2.5 weeks of reservist duties in the army. (No, I am not celebrating the latter.)
Regular updates will resume on 1 March 2008. See you then.
by Reuters
Google and Yahoo are rolling out web software on steroids to compete with Outlook, another clue why Microsoft is shelling out $45 billion and going into debt for Yahoo.
by Steven Levy, Newsweek
By taking over Yahoo, Microsoft instantly makes itself the world's biggest online power, with the ability to amplify the reach of its other properties, including the "cloud" applications that many consider the future of software.
by Nick Miller, Sydney Morning Herald
by Jonnathan Wise, Jonandnic Dot Com
by Saul Hansell, New York Times
by A VC
by Ken Fisher, Ars Technica
by Janet Rae-Dupree, New York Times
Epiphany has little to do with either creativity or innovation. Instead, innovation is a slow process of accretion, building small insight upon interesting fact upon tried-and-true process.
by Kevin J. Delaney and Matthew Karnitschnig, Wall Street Journal
Google Inc. chief executive Eric Schmidt called Yahoo Inc. CEO Jerry Yang to offer his company's help in any effort to thwart Microsoft Corp.'s unsolicited $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo, say people familiar with the matter.
by Louise Story, New York Times
In December, I got my hands on three confidential documents that Microsoft used in its lobbying against the Google-DoubleClick deal. Re-reading those documents now show that Microsoft was clear with the Federal Trade Commission that an approval of Google-DoubleClick might lead it to take drastic action—like it is doing now with its bid for Yahoo.
by Anne Eisenberg, New York Times
How often have you wasted time searching through page after page of e-mail messages, web sites, notes, news feeds and YouTube videos on your computer, trying to find an important item? If the answer is "too often," a San Francisco company, Radar Networks, is testing a free, web-based application, called Twine, that may provide some robotic secretarial help in organizing and retrieving documents.
by Steve Lohr, New York Times
Microsoft's bid for Yahoo is a tacit, and difficult, admission that the company did not get its online business right. The bid also represents a sharp departure from Microsoft's well-thumbed playbook of building new businesses on its own.
by Jeff Jarvis, BuzzMachine
by Kevin Kelly, The Technium
When copies are free, you need to sell things which can not be copied.
by The Economist
China will soon boast more internet users than any other country. But usage patterns inside China are different from those elsewhere.
by Brooke Crothers, CNET News.com
by Heng-Cheong Leong, MyAppleMenu
Microsoft And Yahoo's Shotgun Marriage, by Tim Weber, BBC. Making the offer is an admission that Microsoft's management has been scared by the success of Google. The bid is also an acknowledgement that its numerous attempts to become a dominant internet content provider have failed.
Yahoo! Can't Say No: The Logic Of Microsoft's Brilliant Bid, by Henry Blodget. Yahoo!'s days as a stand-alone public company are almost certainly numbered. Yahoo! shareholders aren't going to let Yahoo! management say no to Microsoft without a fight.
Analysis: Microsoft-Yahoo Merger Won't Dethrone Google, by Jon Brodkin, Network World.
Microsoft Plus Yahoo? The Sum Is Less Than The Parts, by Scott Rosenberg's Wordyard. You will see most of Yahoo's smart people depart, and its customers gradually parceled out to attempt to bolster Microsoft's ever-faltering efforts to build an online business.
Get Off Of My Cloud: Why Microsoft's Play For Yahoo! Isn't About Search, by Chris WIlson, Slate. Yahoo!'s experience as a portal and Microsoft's position as the leading provider of offline software are the ingredients for a powerful Google alternative.
by Jeremy Kirk, Macworld
Microsoft has offered to buy Yahoo for around $44.6 billion in cash and shares, to better compete with Google in the market for online services.
by Sean Dodson, Guardian
by Erica Naone, MIT Technology Review
A new website will offer personalized search results based on the user's social network.
by Paul Davidson, USA Today
by Peter Wayner, New York Times
Automated tools are changing the editing of photography by making it possible for anyone to tweak a picture, delete unwanted items or even combine the best aspects of several similar pictures into one.
by Nicholas Carr, The Guardian
When we all know what everyone else knows, it becomes ever harder to escape the pack.
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