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Microsoft Buys Stake in CareerBuilder

Microsoft Corp. said Wednesday it has acquired a minority stake in job-listings partner CareerBuilder.com and will use that job-search engine on MSN sites overseas in a bid to capture more of the classified advertising money migrating to the Web.
Reston, Va.-based CareerBuilder has been the exclusive provider of job listings to Microsoft’s MSN Careers site since […]

Microsoft’s Bid to Acquire Yahoo!

I read the exclusive today in the NY Post about Microsoft’s desires to acquire Yahoo! in it’s ever increasing attempts to stay compete (try to anyway) with Google. This would indeed be HUGE for Microsoft, but is it truly worth it for them? (I guess it’s really all they can do to try to keep […]

YouTube Finally Paying Users, well a few of them

YouTube is going to share revenue collected from banner ads with the indie video creators on whose pages the ads appear. However, this will be in extremely limited fashion — launching today with just 20 to 40 top producers on the site, such as Lonelygirl15, LisaNova, and Smosh. The deal elevates these select creators to […]

Don’t Pump Gas on May 15th

Don’t pump gas on May 15th ; In April 1997, there was a “gas out” conducted nationwide in protest of gas prices. Gasoline prices dropped 30 cents a gallon overnight.
On May 15th 2007, all Internet users are asked not to go to a gas station in protest of ever increasing gasoline prices. Gas is […]

Digg Gives In to it’s Users

I’m sure most of you have heard about the latest digg news about this number (no it’s not the numbers from Lost that they had to type into a computer every 108 minutes) 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 (it’s the HD-DVD processing key you […]

News Corp. Makes $5 Billion Bid for Dow Jones & Wall Street Journal

News Corp. has made a $5 billion takeover offer for Dow Jones & Co., parent company of The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones announced.
The Bancroft family, the controlling shareholder of The Wall Street Journal’s parent company Dow Jones & Co., is considering a $5 billion buyout offer from News Corp., the international media conglomerate controlled […]

Google denies Viacom copyright charges

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Google responded to Viacom’s $1 billion copyright lawsuit on Monday, arguing that it has not infringed on the rights of the media company and that the lawsuit threatens the viability of its popular YouTube video-sharing Web site as well as others like it. More …

Microsoft buying 24/7 Real Media for $1 billion

Yahoo said it would acquire an ad network yesterday, in reaction to Google’s plans to expand its own ad network by acquiring DoubleClick.  Now in One Giant Leap, the New York Post reports rumors that Microsoft might want to buy ad management company 24/7 Real Media. Dang!
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