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So Microsoft has taken its ball and gone home: the company announced late today that it is withdrawing its bid for Yahoo after the company refused its bumped-up $33 a share offer and stuck firm to its demand for $37 a share. The letter from Steve Ballmer, which my friend Paul Kedrosky also has posted, [...]

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So Mike Arrington says in a post over at TechCrunch that Flickr is going to be adding video soon — really. This rumour has been around for awhile, as Mike himself acknowledges, and in fact Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield has been talking about adding video for at least a year. One obvious question is why [...]

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Finally, Yahoo is doing something

by Mathew on February 26, 2008 · Comments

I don’t know whether Yahoo’s new Buzz feature will actually get any traction, or whether it will be lost in the sea of other Yahoo stuff, or whether it will be orphaned or otherwise screwed up in some way (in the past, any of those options would be a safe bet), but at least the [...]

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Careful with that data, Eugene

by Mathew on February 16, 2008 · Comments

Update:
Heather Hopkins has an update to her post in which she goes into a bit more detail about where the data for the chart comes from. And just to be clear, I wasn’t suggesting that the data is wrong — just that it’s probably not wise to be drawing sweeping conclusions from it.
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There’s a [...]

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Yahoo staffers clogging the exits

by Mathew on February 13, 2008 · Comments

Many people seem surprised that Yahoo would go ahead with layoffs despite its ongoing takeover battle with Microbeast, but the fact is that everything doesn’t grind to a halt when a takeover offer shows up. Yahoo has to proceed as though the deal may not go through, regardless of whether the odds are overwhelmingly stacked [...]

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