38 posts tagged kedrosky

Now that Microsoft (MSFT) has abandoned its bid for Yahoo (YHOO), the tech media is sifting the entrails of the companies’ ill-starred merger talks for portents of things to come. Paul Kedrosky at Infectious Greed says Yahoo has bought itself some more time–and litigation: I think what has largely happened here is we have bought time and lawsuits.

By Paul Kedrosky, Blogger, Infectious Greed So, what happens next? Microsoft has walked away from Yahoo, or at least from its current takeover offer, and is saying it will move forward organically–and said word with its reek of cattle feces is appropriate here.

Here’s what a top-notch source at Yahoo joked to me tonight, after Microsoft walked away from its unsolicited takeover bid to acquire the long-troubled Internet giant. “Google is now officially our best friend.” Oh no.

Here’s what a top-notch source at Yahoo joked to me tonight, after Microsoft walked away from its unsolicited takeover bid to acquire the long-troubled Internet giant. “Google is now officially our best friend.” Oh no.

I wish Paul Kedrosky would fix his damned IE javascript issues, but he’s a good source of bloggorhea. Or, alternatively, if Twhirl would just let me use Flock instead of IE I wouldn’t need to use IE in the first place. My point, if I have one, is that Kedrosky has a post up with data about the average age of tech entrepreneurs.

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Information overload in the web era « The Equity Kicker "To borrow a concept from Stowe Boyd the best way to think about all the feeds and news and status updates is as a river of news. You look at it when you can and sample what is going past at that moment.

Information overload in the web era « The Equity Kicker "To borrow a concept from Stowe Boyd the best way to think about all the feeds and news and status updates is as a river of news. You look at it when you can and sample what is going past at that moment.

Paul Kedrosky's touched on a point that was topic to a dinner table conversation last week among my friends: How common price records are once you've hit a record and how the repeated headlines on "oil hits record price" carry an amplification effect in people's perceptions.

Daily Links Facebook to Settle Thorny Lawsuit Over Its Origins - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog Looks like a settlement (I am betting north of $50M) is in the works to buy off Uconnnect's pretty well-substantiated claims about Mark Zuckerberg's possible misdeeds as a former employee of Uconnect immediatley prior to launching Facebook.