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Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang leaving company (AP)
January 18, 2012 by admin · Leave a Comment
AP – Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang is leaving the struggling Internet company, as it tries to revive its revenue growth and win over disgruntled shareholders under a new leader.
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Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang leaving company
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Google-Motorola deal highlights patent arms race (AP)
August 18, 2011 by admin · Leave a Comment
AP – When an Internet company plunks down $12.5 billion to buy a struggling cellphone company for its collection of patents, it’s another sign that, for the high-tech industry, patents have become a mallet wielded by corporations to pummel their competitors.
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Google-Motorola deal highlights patent arms race
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IAC wins control of online dating site Meetic: AMF (Reuters)
August 18, 2011 by admin · Leave a Comment
Reuters – IAC/InterActiveCorp has won control of French online dating service Meetic, boosting its stake to 77.6 percent, after most shareholders agreed to IAC’s 15 euros per share offer price.
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IAC wins control of online dating site Meetic: AMF
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Ice Cream Sandwich unwrapped at Google I/O (Appolicious)
May 11, 2011 by publisher · Leave a Comment
Appolicious – As expected, Android was the focus for day one of Google I/O, the search giant’s yearly event highlighting product innovations and industry developments. The revelation of Android 3.1 precluded the announcement of the upcoming Ice Cream Sandwich, the highly anticipated OS update expected to solve Android’s fragmentation problems. Android Honeycomb 3.1, on the other hand, enhances the consumer experience, with new holographic interface options, and movie rentals that can be accessed from any Android device
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Ice Cream Sandwich unwrapped at Google I/O
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Google threatens to shut down Swiss Street View (AP)
May 11, 2011 by creative · Leave a Comment
AP – Google is threatening to wipe photographs of streets and houses in Switzerland from its online maps unless the country’s supreme court overturns a ruling requiring an absolute guarantee of anonymity for people captured by the popular Street View service.
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Google threatens to shut down Swiss Street View
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