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Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang ordered up a draft press release rejecting a Microsoft takeover bid months before January’s unsolicited bid and flip-flopped on spurning an ad deal with rival Google, company documents unsealed on Monday show. Selective details from Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) board minutes and other confidential company documents in an investor suit, unsealed by […]

nVidia Tegra Source: Reuters On Sunday nVidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) announced a processor lineup it believes will power a new class of fast, small devices with long battery life that can surf the full Internet, play high-end games and display video in high definition. The graphics chipmaker is calling the Tegra 600 and Tegra 650 processors […]

Asustek Eee PC Source: Reuters TAIPEI — Smaller, low-cost PCs are likely to be at the top of the shopping list for technology buyers gathering in Taipei this week for the world’s second largest computer fair, as an economic slowdown in the United States forces consumers to cut back on spending. Shoppers are feeling the […]

The Federal Trade Commission reported today it has given billionaire investor Carl Icahn the go-ahead to purchase large blocks of Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) stock. The FTC, which routinely looks at large stock purchases, said the moves were approved in a listing that it puts out several times a week. In mid-May, Icahn launched a campaign […]

Source: Reuters CARLSBAD, Calif. — Speculation over what it will take Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) to get together has turned into something of a CEO parlor game. Media magnate Rupert Murdoch said this week he is “mystified” the two have not come to terms. E-commerce mogul Barry Diller said Microsoft should never […]

CARLSBAD, Calif. — Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) is supplying software technology that will let users of News Corp.’s (NYSE: NWS) popular social network site MySpace more quickly search their e-mail, the companies said on Wednesday. In a separate announcement, Google released pricing for a new service that gives independent developers access to the same computer infrastructure […]

CARLSBAD, CALIF. — Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) plans to give users of the next version of its Windows operating system touch screen controls as one option for controlling the software, its top executives said on Tuesday. Chairman Bill Gates and Chief Executive Steve Ballmer showed off new Windows features based on software it calls “multitouch” that […]

“Surface-like” multi-touch capability is coming in the next major release of Windows, currently codenamed Windows 7. During the The Wall Street Journal’s “D: All Things Digital” conference yesterday, Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer appeared for an onstage interview during the opening events in Carlsbad, California, where they touted the touch-screen features. Gates first introduced the […]

Source: Reuters Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ) is offering a broadband video subscription service from Starz Entertainment to expand its video offerings on the Internet, the companies said on Tuesday. Verizon’s film foray comes as online video on demand is experiencing explosive growth. As more people switch over to high-speed connections throughout the country, online video […]

Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin Source: Reuters Arun Sarin, the chief executive who safeguarded Vodafone’s (NYSE: VOD) dominance among mobile operators by expanding into emerging markets, announced his departure on Tuesday, saying he had achieved all he had set out to do. He will be replaced by his deputy, Vittorio Colao, in July. Analysts welcomed the […]

LOS ANGELES — Will Bud.TV get competition from Burger.TV? Fast-food chain Carl’s Jr. is considering a foray into online branded entertainment, having met digital-minded production companies in recent weeks with help from ad-buying firm Initiative Media. Just as Anheuser-Busch launched its own hub for original video programming last year in the form of Bud.TV, Carl’s […]