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Microsoft Sends Letter to Yahoo! Board of Directors — Microsoft Sends Letter to Yahoo! Board of Directors — REDMOND, Wash. — April 5, 2008 — Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) today sent the following letter to the Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) Board of Directors: — Board of Directors
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Microsoft Gives Yahoo Ultimatum: Sign Deal In 3 Weeks Or We Cut Bid — ANALYSIS: In this ultimatum Microsoft makes a compelling case that Yahoo's board is violating its fiduciary duty to shareholders by not even engaging with Microsoft. This, combined with the threat of a bid cut …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Microsoft (Pretends To) Force Yahoo's Hand … Enough with subtle messages delivered through the press: Microsoft goes on the record with their threat to bail on Yahoo. — This is really just a sign by Microsoft that they really, really still want this deal.
Dan Farber / Outside the Lines:
Microhoo: Ballmer takes off his gloves — Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and his troop of strategists, lawyers, accountants, and bankers are done seeking a peaceful resolution with Yahoo's board of directors. It's been more than two months since Microsoft made what Ballmer calls a “generous” offer of $31 per share to acquire Yahoo.
Matt Richtel / New York Times:
In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They Drop — SAN FRANCISCO — They work long hours, often to exhaustion. Many are paid by the piece — not garments, but blog posts. This is the digital-era sweatshop. You may know it by a different name: home.
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Profy.Com, BloggingStocks, Doc Searls Weblog, The Blog Herald, Mashable!, VentureBeat, Cool Rules Pronto and Worker Bees Blog
Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:
Walt Mossberg loves AppleTV...and 3G iPhone in 2 months! — Walt Mossberg talks about how the US cable companies and DSL providers are screwing the US over with tricks and slow speeds.... (Yah, you know you can get 100Mb Fiber in France for €50/month?)
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James Ashton / Times of London:
Joost faces TV squeeze — JOOST, the online television service launched with a fanfare last year by the founders of internet telephony firm Skype, is preparing for a major retrenchment after failing to attract enough users and top-flight broadcasting rights.
Cam / HermitWorks:
Quake 3 + iTouch — So we've been playing around with Quake 3 and Apple's iTouch. Scott grabbed the icculus source and with a few modifications had it running pretty quick. Here's a video of him with two iTouch's in multiplayer.
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Jeremiah Owyang / Web Strategy:
My Essential Twitter Tools — Many conversations are shifting to Twitter, this post proves it (network with others, by adding those in the comments). Twitter is extensible, and many third-party developers are creating tools around the simple data being exported for a variety of unique applications.
Jessica Guynn / Los Angeles Times:
Engineers shun the razor, hope for an edge — As an expression of solidarity, engineers at Powerset Inc. vowed to not shave until they finish the company's first product. They put away their razors in late January as their company hit another milestone in its drive to release its long-anticipated product to the public.
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Enigmax / TorrentFreak:
Lawyer Who Threatened File-Sharers is Banned For 6 months — A lawyer who sent out hundreds of thousands of threatening letters demanding that alleged file-sharers pay 400 euros, has been banned from operating for 6 months. Elizabeth Martin, who had been working with Swiss anti-piracy outfit …
