The Guardian reports that News Corp is in talks with Yahoo about merging its online business with the “ailing internet firm” “embattled internet company.”
No real surprise there, particularly if you read my post a couple of weeks ago.
Microsoft or News Corp? Talk about a rock and a hard place.
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GCap, which earlier this year closed its DAB station Core, has announced that two more DAB stations, Planet Rock and The Jazz are for the chop. The company is also to sell its stake in Digital One and Xfm FM licences outside London.
At the same time as announcing the two closures, GCap, owner of Classic [...]

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Time Machine is easily my favourite Leopard feature. For the first time I have a regular, automatic backup routine that runs in the background and never confronts me with annoying dialogue boxes whinging about how it was unable to back up my data (that’s you Retrospect, that is). Add to that the ease with which [...]

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iPhone capacity upgraded to 16GB and touch storage doubled to 32GB.
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Digital Spy reports that a Rajar announcement at the end of last week puts DAB’s share of the radio listening audience in the UK at 10%, up from 8.5% in the previous quarter.
That’s a significant leap and when put next to the sales figures for DAB radio in the run up to Christmas – [...]

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The Wall Street Journal reports that FaceBook’s Mark Zuckerberg held an open conference call yesterday to discuss the company’s 2007 financials – highly unusual for a private company.
Among the highlights:
Revenue for 2007 $150m
Projected revenue for 2008 $300 – $350m
Projected pre-tax earnings for 2008 $50m
Pretty good for a four-year old start-up.
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In a move that lots of people did see coming, the BBC reports today that Microsoft has offered $45bn to buy Yahoo. The price represents a 64% mark-up on Yahoo’s current share price and comes at a time when the company is seriously struggling. Profits for the Oct-Dec 2007 quarter were down 23%, former chief [...]

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