Yahoo Talks With Potential Partners
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Yahoo has picked up discussions with Time Warner over a combination involving AOL. News Corp. has also been hovering around Yahoo. The renewed talks come after a lull following Microsoft's withdrawal in May of its $47.5 billion offer to buy Yahoo.
Google Aims to Protect YouTube UsersLawyers for Google asked Viacom for permission to better hide information that might help identify YouTube users before Google complies with a judge's demand that it hand over YouTube "user logs" to Viacom.
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One Laptop per Child isn't just for children anymore. Andy Jordan talks to adults who can't wait to get their hands on the "unbelievably sexy" machines.
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Vodafone Buys Ghana Telecom StakeVodafone agreed to buy a controlling stake in Ghana Telecom from the country's government for $900 million.
RIM Gets Stay in Visto Patent CaseResearch In Motion was granted a stay in a patent-infringement case filed by software maker Visto against the BlackBerry maker.
Reliance Firms Still FeudReliance Industries continued to pressure Reliance Communications' deal talks with MTN, asking for discussions in a possible prelude to going to court.
VeriSign Names Bidzos Interim CEOVeriSign named founder Jim Bidzos as interim chief executive, replacing William A. Roper, who had spent the last year trying to slim down and refocus the Internet-registration company.
JWT Wins Microsoft AccountWPP Group's JWT ad firm has landed Microsoft's business-solutions advertising account, beating out McCann Erickson.
Circuit City Director QuitsThe lead director of Circuit City resigned, a day after Blockbuster disclosed it was abandoning its pursuit of the consumer-electronics retailer.
Nvidia Warns of Charge, Softer DemandNvidia disclosed an overheating problem with some of its chips for notebook computers -- triggering a big charge -- and said other problems also will hurt financial results for the second quarter.
IBM to Buy Competitor, Ending SuitsIBM agreed to buy Platform Solutions in a deal that eliminates ongoing litigation and a potential competitor for its lucrative mainframe business.
Google Won't Have to Turn Over Source CodeA federal judge has denied a request to force Google and YouTube unit to turn over the computer code at the heart of their search functions in a $1 billion copyright-infringement lawsuit by Viacom.
Rulings Aid Case for Class ActionsWidespread efforts by companies to prevent consumers from pursuing class-action suits against them are increasingly getting quashed by state courts.
Spectrum's Net Falls 21%Spectrum's net income fell 21% on the continued sting of delayed military orders and softness in the telecom equipment market.
Huawei Pares Bidders List for UnitHuawei shortlisted five private-equity bidders for the Chinese telecom-gear maker's mobile-devices division, valued at more than $4 billion.
Nokia, InterDigital Unit Settle SuitsNokia settled two patent-infringement lawsuits in U.K. courts with a unit of InterDigital, a company that specializes in wireless technology.
Samsung Executive Warns of CrisisA Samsung executive said that South Korea's largest conglomerate was facing a leadership crisis and that its image was tainted following the resignation of its chairman over corruption charges.
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Jul 3,
6:02 am The first rule of online marketing is that the more personal you can make a pitch the better. Turns out the opposite may be true: A recently published study found that the more personalized a message, the less likely a recipient is to respond.
Emails with too much personal information are kind of creepy
Researchers from the [...] Jul 3,
12:42 am It’s official: The latest version of Mozilla’s popular alternative Web browser, Firefox 3, set the previously nonexistent Guinness World Record for most software downloads in a day. The final tally settled at 8,002,530 after judges weeded out duplicates and automated downloads from the 8.3 million total downloads logged on June 18, the day of the [...]  News and analysis about the digital revolution from Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher.
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| TODAY'S MARKETS | 8:36 a.m. EDT | |
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LAST |
CHANGE |
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| Nasdaq * |
2245.38 |
-6.08 |
-0.27 |
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| DJIA * |
11288.54 |
73.03 |
0.65 |
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| MS Tech * |
549.38 |
-0.55 |
-0.10 |
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| Phila Semi * |
355.74 |
-2.27 |
-0.63 |
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| Nasdaq 100 * |
1816.35 |
0.20 |
0.01 |
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