The $31-a-share bid of cash or Microsoft stock is 62 percent more than Yahoo’s closing price yesterday. Before today, Yahoo had dropped 18 percent this year in Nasdaq Stock Market trading, and this week posted a 23 percent profit decline for the fourth quarter. Bloomberg.com: U.S.
Alex Madrigal at Wired Science reports that
Sources at Google have disclosed that the humble domain, http://research.google.com, will soon provide a home for terabytes of open-source scientific datasets. The storage will be free to scientists and access to the data will be free for all. Wired Science from Wired.com
Security researchers have identified a Trojan that hijacks Google text advertisements, replacing them with “ads” from a different provider that are likely to be laced with spyware.
The Qhost-WU modifies an infected computer’s hosts file, thereby poisoning systems with bogus DNS lookup records. The hosts file matches domain names of websites with corresponding IP addresses. By […]
E-mail is a good target for developing a semantic search engine because users frequently repeat certain phrasings and words and repeatedly exchange the same type of information.
PC World - IBM Offers Free E-Mail Search Tool
Google is rolling out a centralized profile system that will provide personalized information to each Google product you use. The unimaginatively named Google Profile will share information across all Google products, unifying often disparate Google systems that logins aside haven’t previously shared data with each other.
Google Starts Rolling Out Centralized Profiles
Logical step. I’m sure the […]
The growing confrontation between Google and Microsoft promises to be an epic business battle. It is likely to shape the prosperity and progress of both companies, and also inform how consumers and corporations work, shop, communicate and go about their digital lives. Google sees all of this happening on remote servers in faraway data centers, […]
– Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced today that it will apply to participate in the Federal Communications Commission’s upcoming auction of wireless spectrum in the 700 megahertz (MHz) band.
As part of the nationally mandated transition to digital television, the 700 MHz spectrum auction — which begins January 24, 2008 — will free up spectrum airwaves for […]
According to Reuters, Flickr is adding a system called Flickr Places that will allow browsers to see locations of images hot spots — recently-added photos from all over the world. Cool!
Silicon Alley Insider thinks it’s a good idea, and it sounds like it would be good for everyone but a bunch of AOL employees — who are being laid off in bits and pieces anyway. What do you think?
Why Yahoo (YHOO) Should Buy AOL (TWX) - Silicon Alley Insider
We finally stumbled across an intelligent Google bear this week: The wise John Hussman of Hussman Funds. Hussman is one of the few active fund managers who can consistently defend his investment strategy with deep analysis and facts (as opposed to hunches, trends, common wisdom, and other hot air). Hussman’s weekly reports, which frequently torpedo […]
While Google looks at the words on a Web page, Proximic looks for patterns of characters. That means Proximic’s approach is completely language-independent, so it works as well with German and Chinese as it does with English.
In theory, this makes Proximic ideal for the random spew of user-generated content posted daily on blogs and social-networking […]
