CBS ( NYSE: CBS ) is acquiring CNET ( NSDQ: CNET ) for $1.8 billion in cash. The purchase price comes to $11.50 per share, representing a 44.6 percent premium over last night's closing price of $7.95. This is that big acquisition we've been waiting for from Quincy Smith's CBS Interactive, and from CNET's ...
Adobe® Flash® Player 10, code-named "Astro," introduces new expressive features and visual performance improvements that allow interactive designers and developers to build the richest and most immersive Web experiences. 3D Effects - Easily transform and animate any display object through 3D space while ...
WASHINGTON _ According to exit polls, Hillary Clinton won 67 percent of the white vote in West Virginia, America's third whitest state. Yet in early March, Barack Obama won 60 percent of the white vote in Vermont, the nation's second-whitest state. Unlike John Kennedy who, with loads of charm and money ...
This article appeared in the Guardian on Thursday May 15 2008 on p2 of the Technology news & features section. Last month a US court ruled that border agents can search your laptop, or any other electronic device, when you're entering the country. Customs and Border Patrol has not published ...
The San Francisco-based Billboard Liberation Front has been transforming the world of advertising since 1977. When Austrian art-pranksters and regular BBtv guests monochrom recently visited the United States to spread their Sculpture Mob dogma, a historic meeting with the elusive BLF took place. We needed ...
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 ...
Adobe® Flash® Player 10, code-named "Astro," introduces new expressive features and visual performance improvements that allow interactive designers and developers to build the richest and most immersive Web experiences. 3D Effects - Easily transform and animate any display object through 3D space while ...
In what sounds like a really low-budget horror film, voracious swarming ants that apparently arrived in Texas aboard a cargo ship are invading homes and yards across the Houston area, shorting out electrical boxes and messing up computers.
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. ...