November 17, 2008

Microsoft/Yahoo: Yang to Step Down

Current Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang has announced today he is stepping down and returning to his former role as Chief Yahoo! The news ends an embattled tenure for the Yahoo co-founder, who took over as CEO in June 2007, replacing then CEO Terry Semel. Now the big question is what does this mean for the still lingering merger/partnership/take-over with Yahoo and partnership with Microsoft. Yahoo is not doing so well, the stock has already lost nearly 2/3 (closed today  @ $10.63 per share) of it value since the take-over was announced. Back on February 1st Yahoo! stock shot up to…

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Mozilla Project Weekly Status: November 17th

ADDONS.MOZILLA.ORG (AMO) AMO 4.0.3 – Status: Pending Release fixed bugs Freeze – Nov. 10th Updates pushed tonight to coincide with collections & bandwagon dates — thanks to Neil, Fred and the rest of the team for their hard work on collections AMO 4.0.4 – Status: In Process open bugs & fixed bugs Freeze – Dec 1 FIREFOX/GECKO Fx 2.0.0.18 & Fx 3.0.4/Gecko 1.8.1.18 & 1.9.0.4 – Released Released: Novmeber 12th Feedback overall looks good. We’re having a post-mortem on Friday to discuss any issues during the release process. QA 2.0.0.18/3.0.4 Released on Wednesday Nov 12th! Live bits testing. Writing content…

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