Microsoft Bid for Yahoo...

Microsoft’s latest attempt to purchase Yahoo is gaining momentum again. According to The Wall Street Journal , Microsoft is working with the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Silver Lake Partners, a private equity firm, to put together a bid to purchase Yahoo. The proposed...
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Google+ Users Have Post...

The 40 million or more users of Google+ have uploaded 3.4 billion photographs to the service in the last 100 days, the company has revealed. Vic Gundotra, Google’s SVP of social, offered the number on stage at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco Wednesday. He was responding to...
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Microsoft CEO Steve Bal...

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer says that Microsoft dodged a bullet when it failed to acquire Yahoo in 2008. In February 2008, the technology giant famously made an unsolicited $44.6 billion acquisition offer for Yahoo. Cofounder Jerry Yang (then Yahoo’s CEO) and the Yahoo board...
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Ballmer On Not Buying Y...

Speaking today at Web 2.0, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was boisterous as usual. In a rousing talk with John Batelle, Ballmer talked about how, since last being on stage at Web 2.0 three years ago, Bing has doubled its market share, Microsoft hasn’t completely given up on competing...
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Bill Gross Explains Wha...

Bill Groos was just on stage to officially introduce jis latest company, Chime.in . The app hit iTunes yesterday . It is an online mobile social network built around interests. We’ve been seeing a lot of companies trying to tackle the interest graph lately, and Chime.in is the...
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Kleiner-Backed Erly Foc...

We’ve covered Erly , a Kleiner Perkins-backed startup in the social ‘experience’ space that counts founding Hulu CTO and former Kleiner partner Eric Feng as a co-founder. Erly launched a month ago as a way to build and share social content around experiences. And today,...
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Think You’ve Disabled...

Late Friday evening, I tweeted out that, for some reason unbeknownst to me, Google’s Web History tracking “feature” (the one that keeps tabs on every search you’ve made for sake of tailoring ads to your tastes and/or creeping you out) had seemingly been enabled on...
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Top 10 Greatest U.S. Di...

Editor’s note:   Contributor  Ashkan Karbasfrooshan is the founder and CEO of  WatchMojo . Back in November 2006, I published the Top 10 Greatest Internet Digital Media M&A Deals of All Time .  It included eBay’s $1.5 billion acquisition of PayPal, Yahoo’s $1.6...
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Dean Kamen’s Inflatab...

Most wind turbines have a recognizable shape, but a new design from Segway inventor Dean Kamen is less obvious in its functionality: This turbine has a vertical axis and rotors made of plastic fabric meant to be easily moved by the wind. Archetypal wind turbines require a good amount of...
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Why Hulu’s Owners Cou...

Hulu, which has been shopping itself around this year, is no longer for sale. Hulu’s owners—Disney, News Corp, Comcast, and Providence Equity Partners—put the online TV site up for bid and got some serious offers from Google , Dish Networks, and Amazon. Even Yahoo supposedly...
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