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How do you get bought out by Google?
Start-ups and venture capitalists often dream of the multimillion-dollar buyout, if not the lucrative IPO. So technology upstarts might perk up to hear the inside scoop from Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft on their acquisitions. Read more »
Microsoft makes Yahoo a new offer
Microsoft announced on Sunday afternoon it has issued another proposal to Yahoo that calls for a transaction with the company but would not involve the acquisition of all of its assets. Read more »
Microsoft makes $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo
Microsoft went public on Friday with a US$44.6 billion cash-and-stock bid to acquire Yahoo. Read more »
We will buy 20 companies a year: Ballmer
Speaking at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco on Thursday, Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer said his company was on the prowl for acquisitions that made strategic sense. Read more »
Microsoft moves on after Yahoo break-up
In the wake of Microsoft's decision to pull its Yahoo offer, executives are trying to make the case that Redmond's online business can go it alone. Read more »
Google stews over new Microsoft offer
Google's top brass are meeting Monday to figure out a response to how Microsoft's new overtures toward Yahoo affect Google's potential ad deal with Yahoo. Read more »
Yahoo and Google attempt to improve the browser
A year after Google launched its Gears project, Yahoo has decided to make your browser better, too. Read more »
Google buys RSS company FeedBurner
Google has acquired another medium for its advertising engine by purchasing FeedBurner, a company that distributes syndicated content for blogs and other media Web sites, the companies said on Friday. Read more »
Microsoft answering Google's wake-up call?
Microsoft Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie doesn't necessarily think Google has all the answers, but he does credit the company for opening Microsoft's eyes. Read more »
Microsoft to buy Aquantive for US$6 billion
In a bid to boost its presence in advertising, Microsoft said Friday that it will pay US$6 billion to acquire Aquantive, a digital marketing and services company. Read more »
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The truth behind Ballmer's revision of history
While speaking in Moscow, Microsoft CEO and Yahoo suitor Steve Ballmer said, "Yahoo was never the strategy we were pursuing, it was a way to accelerate our online advertising business... We will spend money on some acquisitions. You can do a whole lot of things with $50 billion." Read more »
50 significant moments from internet history
We take you through 50 defining moments of the internet. Read more »
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Adobe briefly considered its own browser
-- Internet Explorer dominates the Web browser market, but are that many people so in love with it? Meanwhile, the Flash player dominates its segment because lots of people find it to be a terrific. So might Adobe one day decide that the next logical step is to try its hand at building its own Web browser? Read more »
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This blog post covers some of the technologies available for creating applications for the Semantic Web. Read more »
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Bridging the gap between programmers and the visionA successful project will have a hard time flying if you don't walk through the game plan before writing a line of code. Read more »
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Social news start-up Streem shuts downSydney social news start-up Streem will shut down this afternoon, according to a heartfelt notice posted on the site this morning by its founder Elgar Welch. Read more »
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Five things to consider when choosing a Linux distribution
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Space pr0n, patent karma and Yang out -- Club Builder
On Club Builder this week: how NASA plans to get the Internet into space, Jerry Yang is out the door at Yahoo and Brendan Eich discusses javascript engine competition.