October 11, 2008

Yahoo urged to sell itself to Microsoft

With Yahoo’s stock plummeting to $12.29 a share on Friday (October 10), a Yahoo investor is urging Yahoo to sell itself to Microsoft for $22 a share. From Reuters: Under the proposal by investment fund Mithras Capital, Microsoft would unload Yahoo’s Asian assets and non-search businesses, extract $3 billion worth of cost savings and receive $2.8 billion of tax benefits, meaning the software giant would pay $10.3 billion for Yahoo’s search business. A quick refresher on Yahoo’s stock: Closed at $19.18 per share on January 31st, the day before Microsoft made the offer Closed at $28.38 per share (up 47%)…

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Release Recap: October Week 2

Just Released No New Releases This Past Week Schedule this Coming Week Firefox 3.1b1 – October 14th Tentative Shredder (Thunderbird) 3.0a3 –  October 14th Tentative Future Release Note: MU Releases are special releases which allow users to upgrade to the next major version (e.g. Fx 2 to Fx 3) automatically without having to manually download and install the newer version. Firefox 2.0.0.17 > 3.0.2 MU – TBD Firefox 2.0.0.17 – November 12th Firefox 3.0.4 – November 12th

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