Even Bill Gates Appalled By Awfulness of Microsoft's Products and Web Site
Think you're the only one who has smashed your keyboard in frustration? Bill Gates has felt your pain.
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Apple iPhone Design Alienates Women and Large People
Only one-third of iPhone buyers are women. Why? Tough to use if you're into long fingernails.
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Palm Q4 Earnings Preview: Still Treading Water (PALM)
Palm's Centro is popular but cheap, and new Treos aren't out until next month. The good news: Not much matters until phones running Palm's new operating system come out next year.
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Microsoft Developing Secret Plan To Seize Control of Yahoo Without Buying It
At the urging of Yahoo investors, Microsoft is seriously considering buying 1/3 of the company for $30-$32 a share, Kara Swisher says. This would effectively give it control. Jerry and Sue, meanwhile, would be toast.
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Yahoo's Yang and Bostock Explain Their Google-Microsoft Decision, Ask For Your Vote
Jerry and Roy's letter to shareholders is mostly old news, but it contains a couple of new nuggets. Meanwhile, the pair already have our vote at the upcoming shareholder meeting (because the alternative is worse).
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Can Newspapers Save Themselves By Outsourcing?
Two strategies: Send our work out to India - or get your readers to do it for you.
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Yahoo Wilts as TechCrunch "Microsoft Takeover!" Sources Sober Up
No one has been able to corroborate TechCrunch's report that Microsoft and Yahoo are again discussing a merger. A source says we should also ignore reports that there are no search talks, either.
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Microsoft and Yahoo In Talks: Two Sources Say "Search Only, Not Buyout"
They're talking again, say TechCrunch and our sources. TechCrunch's sources think a full buyout is on the table. Our sources say "just search."
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Yahoo (YHOO) Getting Cheap Enough For LBO Firms To Pounce
Yahoo's core business is now valued at about 10X-15X EBITDA. This implies that Yaho's future growth will be modest, at best.
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Monitor110 Whacks 30% of Staff, In Talks With Reuters
New York's Monitor110 shrinks itself, may sell to Reuters.
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eBay Seller Goes Berzerk at eBay Live: Outraged Sellers Game New System To Survive
Some eBay sellers hate the new changes. This led to angry confrontations at this year's sparsely attended eBay seller conference. One outraged eBay seller tells us how he games the new "police state" system.
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Microsoft to Yahoo Shareholders: Fire Jerry And We Might Bid Again*
Microsoft's Kevin Johnson reportedly suggested that, if Yahoo shareholders fire Jerry and the board, Microsoft might come back. Nuance may be lost in translation, however...
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Web-Based Yahoo Resignation Letter Makes Quitting Even Faster and Easier
Ditching your Yahoo job has never been so simple.
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Wikipedia Updater Not Fired For Scooping NBC on Tim Russert's Death*
NBC delayed reporting Tim Russert's death until it had notified his family. Someone working at an NBC vendor, meanwhile, thought the death was public and updated Wikipedia. Outrageously, that employee has since been canned.
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Sense Networks: Making Coin Out of Location Data and "Reality Mining"
Finally someone's figured out a practical business application for location-based data. (No, it's not advertising).
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Yahoo's Decker Blasted For Choosing "Lifer" Patel As Co-Honcho*
Decker's choice of Ash Patel as product chief isn't going over well. Morale at Yahoo, meanwhile, seems to have hit an all-time low.
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Apple Stock Cult Threatens SAI, Forms "Group" To Drive Stock Higher
Apple meatheads join forces to silence unapproved analysis.
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Yahoo's Preposterous Statement on Exec Exits Screams "DENIAL"
Does Yahoo want to be taken seriously? It can start by acknowledging reality.
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Sue Decker Driving Yahoo Shakeup--Is She Taking Over?
The type of leadership Yahoo desperately needs right now is not the type one normally associates with Jerry. Interesting, then, that in the WSJ Yahoo-reorg write-up, his name didn't even appear.
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Bear Stearns Indictment: "Toast" Remark Unpersuasive, But Other Stuff In Here
Bear Stearns hedge funders guilty of criminal fraud? You be the judge.
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Yahoo Still Bleeding Execs, Reorg Coming (YHOO)
Yahoo loses three senior execs - and more may be coming. Meanwhile, Jerry and Sue get ready to remake the org chart.
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Mr. Yang Goes To Washington...To Try to Parry Microsoft Attack on Yahoo-Google Deal
Jerry Yang rushes to Capitol Hill to calm legislators who are being force-fed horror stories about the Yahoo-Google deal.
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Microsoft Reveals Post-Yahoo Plan To Kill Google
Check out its latest ad campaign...
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Carl Icahn: Just About Ready To Start Blogging
Yahoo's winding down. Time to unwrap the "Icahn Report".
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LinkedIn CEO: Yep, We Want To Go Public Within Three Years*
No shock here: Dan Nye (and his investors) are looking for "far more" than today's $1B valuation.
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iPhones Could Drive a Third of Apple's Revenue Next Year
Good news for Apple fans. In 2009, iPhone sales should start to be material to the company's overall financial performance -- possibly very material.
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Time To Stem The Yahoo Bleed, Jerry
Jerry Yang needs to get rid of every Yahoo manager who isn't committed to a 2-3 year turnaround and replace them with strong, motivated executives who are. Here's how to do it.
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Radio's Revival: Over After A Month
Radio didn't get crushed in April, which by the industry's standards was hopeful news. Back to normal in May, though.
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AOL Worth Something? You Can't Be Serious
SAI reader Steve Baldwin shreds AOL's latest 10Q and asks some smart questions. We provide some answers.
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Microsoft (MSFT) - AOL (TWX) Deal Within a Few Months
Now that the Microsoft-Yahoo talks are over, AOL is in play. A Yahoo-AOL combination would be a better fit, but Microsoft won't let this happen.
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