without making a fuss about it carl icahn has piled up about 50 million shares of yahoo about 3.6 percent of the company. now hes going to make a fuss icahn plans to nominate as many as ten directors to the yahoo board in an effort to prod the company into accepting a takeover bid. notes paul kedrosky im not surprised. i went through yahoos current board asking myself who i would keep if i wer...
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carl icahnyahooinc. yahoo financequote for yhoo microsoftyahooyahooms77 rjrtwa msyahooit related articles icahn may start yahoo proxy battle viazemanta icahnyahoo part ii viazemanta carl icahn purchases 50 million yahoo shares contemplates launching proxy contest acquisitions viazemanta april 17 2008 seo april 1 2008 yahooufo march 19 2008 youtube november 27 2007 10ipod touch nov...
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you got your bloody sundays and your manic mondays and your ruby tuesdays and your saturday nights but nobody ever writes songs about wednesday. here are some links to help liven up the least singable day of the week. no i am not the guy in st. louis selling this magic antique dining room set. but i admire his copywriting skills. this election year the choice is clearbecause there is no choice. k...
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i agree this is a most telling response harvard is an investment bank with a momandpop nonprofit enterprise attached to it for tax purposes.......
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with rising gas prices suvs suddenly have piss poor tradein value according to a dealer its a challenge says adam lee president of the lee auto malls dealerships in maine. how do you tell a good customer you paid 32000 and now its only worth 17000 according to the snarky why you should just hire some newlyunderemployed realtorsa. theyve had some practice at that kind of thing lately. and ill bet ...
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from paul kedrosky monthly vehiclemiles on u.s. highways from 1983 to today ht john battelle permalink no comments yet bookmarkshare posted in markets......
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record windy year the american wind energy association says the if the pace of wind installations keeps going like it did in the first quarter of 2008 there will be a record 5600 megawatts of power installed this year marketwatch. poulsen hybrid an auto xprize contenda autoblog green wonders if the poulsen hybrid could be the sleeper hit for the auto x prize. who knows autobloggreen. fuel cell...
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times are tough when an asset manager needs to raise capital in billion dollar chunks. wsj.com deal journal market movers inflationary psychology is back and the fed is worried. real time economics calculated risk the fed is running out of tbills. alea price increases are simply more noticeable more salient as psychologists would say than price decreases. nytimes.com also crossing wall stree...
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ive been noticing a lot of memes floating around the social media2.0 space over the last two weeks and i decided to pluck 10 of my favorites. if you havent been glued to google reader or twitter here is a rundown of memes worth paying attention to socialprise social tools enterprise socialprise. according to redwriteweb this meme represents one of the biggest shifts in business today. avc questi...
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shares of yahoo nasdaq yhoo closed down 15 at just above 24 after microsoft nasdaq msft withdrew its takeover offer. the wisdom of the crowd as expressed in venture capitalist and blogger fred wilsons premarket online poll suggested a close of 22. microsoft closed about unchanged reflecting the view reported by the wall street journals marketbeat blog that the collapse of the deal was even worse...
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microsoft withdrawing its offer to buy yahoo is a sufficiently large story to demonstrate the problem of redundant news content on the web. google news is currently tracking about 2000 versions of this story. to get a better sense of why its a problem to have 2000 stories about the same thing ive reproduced about ten percent of them below just the headlines and ledes. if you have the stomach to s...
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i thought the microsoftyahoo merger would be a disaster for both companies but the news of microsofts withdrawal of its offer should not be greeted with cheers in any quarters yet. most reports of the story have noted the possibility that this is just a feint on microsofts part. i could be wrong obviously but i cant believe ballmer and company are abandoning the field. its just not their dna. they...
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a few days ago i had pointed out that microsofts bid for yahoo was a checkmate kind of a move yahoo couldnt win from this attack. today by pulling its bid for the sunnyvale calif.based search company microsoft proved that again and showed why it is still the prince machiavelli of technology. here is why yahoo has no real suitors and its viable options as a standalone company are limited. by choos...
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microsoft msft walks away from a yahoo yhoo deal. the fallout. wsj.com also dealbook silicon alley insider gigaom.com truth on the market infectious greed the next head of berkshire hathaway brk.a is barrons.com warren buffett just buy index funds. indexuniverse.com citigroup c bought a loser when it purchased old lane partners. dealbook research into how highfliers react around earnings anno...
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microsoft and yahoo deal is over. microsoft has withdrawn its bid as yahoo did not accept the offer of 33aper share. techcrunch was the firstato report the break in negotiationsa i wonder how mike can know so fast or do they edit the posting time just kidding . mikes post was updated to include the letter of steve ballmer to yahoo ceo jerry yang. techcrunch also publishes the email of steve ballme...
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paul posts some interesting verifiable stats on data centre environmental impact. arstechnica has a longer post. see related posts on externalities. update probably worth cross referencing this with this recent larry page interview.......
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as a new weekend dawns terror and humor compete for precedence in local and global news. evidence that the cosmos has a wry sense of humor strange bedfellows matthew ingram on kanye west. no shi bush news il douche says u.s. faces tough economic period. see infectious greed on rising food prices. u.c. berkeley student murdered near campus. dc madam rides the night trainsuicide or murder in other...
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once a king never a prince. true entrepreneurs are basically unemployable. nobody wants a former boss as an employee. they dont just fade away they start new companies. a commenter in paul kedroskys post about the age breakdown of us entrepreneurs.......
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youthful college dropouts such as bill gates and mark zuckerberg may be the archetypal technology entrepreneurs but founders of us tech companies are actually twice as likely to be over 50 than under 25 and are also likely to be highly educated according to new research funded by the kauffman foundation. even though bill gates and steve jobs founded two of the worlds most successful companies they...
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i min varld ar det sa att de flesta startups startas av unga manniskor och att jag ar en gammal gubbe jamfart med de flesta med den logiken ar peter en dinosaurie men jag far nog revidera detta och inse att peter egentligen ar ratt normal. fick idag av erik en lank som hanvisar till en undersakning gjord pa amerikanska techentreprenarer. den undersakningen visar att att medianaldern ar 39 ar och ...
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age and startupsa it takes guts to do a startup. its easy to hide behind a firewall and lob comments from a big company.a it takes a unique individual to do a startup.a i think that its easier for younger but older entrepreneurs are not disadvantaged.a i havent run into many entrepreneurs that have 4 kids. key to startups is focus and balance.a focus on the strategic plan not on what people are s...
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despite the dormroom folklore people founding tech companies over the last ten years had an average and median age of 39years id like to see successfailure rates along with these figures.......
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despite the dormroom folklore people founding tech companies over the last ten years had an average and median age of 39years id like to see successfailure rates along with these figures. tagged age entrepreneur founder......
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