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Source: money.cnn.com --- 1 hour ago
Disgruntled Yahoo investors have until Thursday to decide if they want to shake up the company's board of directors. ... Source: news.bbc.co.uk --- 1 hour ago
A billionaire investor announces he will fight to oust the present board of directors at Yahoo. ... Source: dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com --- 3 hours ago
... Source: www.washingtonpost.com --- 4 hours ago
Billionaire investor Carl C. Icahn has amassed a significant stake in Yahoo, one of the world's largest Web companies, and is planning to nominate a dissident slate of directors to the company, a source familiar with the matter said yesterday evening. ...
Source: online.wsj.com --- 2 hours ago
Yahoo's board could face a proxy contest from Carl Icahn, who has purchased roughly 50 million Yahoo shares since Microsoft's bid was withdrawn. (Complete coverage) ... Source: www.businessweek.com --- 1 hour ago
The billionaire investor is poised to propose a slate of directors to replace Yahoo's board, but will Microsoft take the bait? ... Source: www.businessweek.com --- 3 hours ago
The billionaire investor is poised to propose a slate of directors to replace Yahoo's board, but will Microsoft take the bait? ... Source: online.wsj.com --- 23 minutes ago
Carl Icahn is launching a proxy contest to unseat Yahoo's board, a move aimed at pushing Yahoo back to the bargaining table with Microsoft. Icahn plans to nominate 10 directors to replace Yahoo's board before a deadline Thursday. ... Source: www.pcmag.com --- 4 hours ago
So Microsoft's $44.6 billion takeover bid of Yahoo ends with less than a whimper. Lance Ulanoff isn't shocked. ... Source: www.chicagotribune.com --- 3 hours ago
Google has surpassed Yahoo to become the most popular Web site in the United States, according to comScore Inc.'s rankings by the number of unique monthly visitors. ... Source: www.moreover.com --- 2 hours ago
Fortune May 14 2008 10:19PM GMT ... Source: www.moreover.com --- 2 hours ago
InfoWorld May 15 2008 1:15AM GMT ... Source: www.examiner.com --- 3 hours ago
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn reportedly has decided to lead a mutiny against Yahoo Inc.'s board in an attempt to pressure the directors into reviving negotiations to sell Yahoo to Microsoft Corp. ... Source: buzz.originalsignal.com --- 41 minutes ago
... Source: channel.hexus.net --- 4 hours ago
Yahoo! stock jumps at news that Carl Icahn may be making a run at the board following withdrawal of Microsoft’s offer. ... Source: www.webuser.co.uk --- 49 minutes ago
Google has finally surpassed Yahoo to become the most popular web brand in the US. ... Source: abclive.in --- 15 minutes ago
New York (ABC Live): After rejecting Microsoft $47.5bn offer Pioneer Internet Search Company Yahoo faces new fight from US based billionaire Carl Icahn. ... Source: glinden.blogspot.com --- 4 hours ago
Chris Olston, Benjamin Reed, Utkarsh Srivastava, Ravi Kumar, and Andrew Tomkins from Yahoo have an upcoming paper at SIGMOD 2008, "Pig Latin: A Not-So-Foreign Language for Data Processing" ( PDF ), that details Yahoo's work to build a powerful parallel processing language on top of Hadoop. Some excerpts: We describe a new language called Pig Latin that we have designed to fit in a sweet spot between the declarative style of SQL, and the low-level, procedural style of map-reduce. At a growing number of organizations, innovation revolves around the collection and analysis of enormous data sets such as web crawls, search logs, and click streams ... For example, the engineers who develop search engine ranking algortihms spend much of their time analyzing search logs looking for exploitable trends. A Pig Latin program is a sequence of steps ... each of which carries out a single data transformation ... Writing a Pig Latin program is similar to specifying a query execution plan ... This method is much more appealing than encoding [a] task as an SQL query, and then coercing the system to choose the desired plan through optimizer hints. Pig ... is fully implemented and available as ... open-source. [Pig is executed] on Hadoop, an open-source, scalable map-reduce implementation. Pig has an active and growing user base inside Yahoo! and ... [is] beginning to attract users in the broader community. The paper provides a number of examp ... Source: www.fiercefinance.com --- 2 hours ago
The AP reports that Carl Icahn is building a stake in Yahoo, aiming to wage some sort of proxy war designed to compel the company to re-enter talks with Microsoft. So far, he has amassed a 3.6 Read more... ... Find more search results for Yahoo on RSSMicro.com |
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BURLINGAME, Calif.--Think of it as crowdsourced cartography.
In about three weeks, Yahoo plans to launch a project called Corrections in which users of the Flickr photo-sharing site can help with a thorny computing problem: providing the name of the place where a photo was taken.
Flickr's geo ... ...