Under the terms of the agreement, CBS will make a cash tender offer for all issued and outstanding shares of CNET Networks for $11. Together, CBS and CNET Networks will have significant additional exposure to the fastest- growing advertising sector and can accelerate our growth through a number of new ...
It is irresponsible to hide behind management's more than overly optimistic financial forecasts. It is unconscionable that you have not allowed your shareholders to choose to accept an offer that represented a 72% premium over Yahoo's closing price of $19. I believe that a combination between Microsoft ...
Microsoft Joins Effort for Laptops for Children
The Kindle could contribute 3% of Amazon's overall revenue in two years, argues Citi analyst Mark Mahaney, who has a born-again relationship with the device. Combining device and book sales in an iPod/iTunes-like model, Mark says, the Kindle could add $750 million to Amazon's top line in 2010. The Kindle's ...
An image purporting to be a prototype Palm Treo 800w in the wild has turned up , together with the news that the handset is also going under the moniker "Zeppelin". While little of the hardware has been confirmed, bar the fact that it's CDMA and that there's a microUSB plug (rather than miniUSB), ...
The scuffle today between Facebook and Google has very little to do with user privacy and everything to do with user control. A huge battle is underway between Google, MySpace and Facebook around control of user profiles and, therefore, users themselves. ...
Yahoo! har släppt SearchMonkey som gör det möjligt för sajtägare att via ett API påverka hur deras sajt ska presenteras i
BitTorrent throttling is not a new phenomenon, but it is getting more attention lately, because the number of people who use BitTorrent keeps growing. Up until today however, there has been no reliable data that revealed the scope of it. ...
CBS has agreed to acquire CNET Networks in a deal valued at $1. The acquisition will make CBS one of the 10 most popular Internet companies in the United States, with a combined 54 million unique users per month, and about 200 million users worldwide, the companies said. It Would be nice to click on ...
Of the 788 Comcast subscribers who participated in the study, 491, or 62 percent, had their connections blocked. Legislation also has been introduced in Congress to guarantee "Net Neutrality," or equal treatment of traffic by Internet service providers. "To ensure the best possible online experience ...
Demographics now available in YouTube Insight
"The core businesses of CNET Networks and CBS Interactive represent near perfect category symmetry in premium online content," Quincy Smith, President, CBS Interactive. And that symmetry is apparently worth about $1. ...
Filed under: Displays , Laptops As much as we would loath typing on that touch-sensitive, rigid keyboard, we're definitely geek-smitten by this ultra-thin, AMOLED laptop concept from Samsung SDI -- Sammy's display division. ...
The new field of Cloud Computing promises dramatic changes in how we do business. What technologies is the IT industry working on to solve this catch 22? We bring together a panel of experts from the best in database and data analytic companies to give you takeaways as to how best maximize your organizations ...
With LiMo's recent announcement that Verizon had hopped onto their Board of Directors, things are starting to heat up between the LiMo platform and Google's competing product, Android. Both are open-source Linux-based platforms, and both are aiming to rock the handset market sometime in the next year ...
Update: Yahoo Responds As expected , Carl Icahn presented an alternate slate of directors for the upcoming Yahoo shareholder meeting. The letter to Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock says it all: Carl C. ...
Let's talk about SCSI for a moment. The disk interface which was once ubiquitous with high-end workstations and servers is now on the verge of obsolescence. With the influx of inexpensive and reliable Serial ATA hard disks and hardware SATA RAID controllers (which can provide excellent performance at ...
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The UK's postal regulator calls for the part privatisation of Royal Mail to ensure a high-quality mail service.
I am so excited to be filling in for Julia this week! I just picked out my image and then cut it into 1" pieces! I figured inchies were just 1x1-inch square pieces of paper that you stamp on, I didn't know you could BUY them.
I just recently completed my industrial design undergraduate thesis, and the design that I decided to explore combines two elegant sustainable technologies - airships and renewable electricity - and puts them to work on the oft-neglected (but increasingly significant) issue of disaster relief. Solarial ...
Several months after introducing competing and incompatible mobile DTV products, LG and Samsung have joined forces to develop a single device that will allow for digital television on cell phones. "LG and Samsung are already world-class in digital TV and mobile communications," LG president and chief ...
A commenter on Ben's wood-powered truck post pointed us to a similar car hack. The truck above is also powered by a wood gas generator, except this one runs on coffee grounds. The gas is filtered on its way to the engine and, Viola, a caffeine-powered truck.
The following is also my column in next week's AdAge. Over the last five years I have been asked countless times: "Steve, what's the next hot online community?" It seems as though everybody is on the lookout for the successor to MySpace, Twitter or Facebook. ...