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...Rumors are flying that Yahoo is teaming up with AOL, the long-suffering Internet division of Time Warner (which is also the parent company of TIME), as a way to stave off an unwanted merger. At the same time, there are reports that Microsoft is buddying up with News Corp. so that the two companies can increase Yahoo's offering price and corner their catch. While many industry watchers still believe that Microsoft will gobble up Yahoo eventually, chances are it will have to pay a lot more for its meal...
...Yahoo rebuffs Microsoft and merges with AOL...
...PROS: The combined entities are worth more together than they are apart, which is a plus for investors. Together, they would have the most instant messenger users, the buzziest celebrity news site (AOL's TMZ.com), a leading business site (Yahoo Finance), along with a popular tech blog, (AOL's Engadget). The cash infusion from Time Warner (in exchange for a 20% stake in Yahoo/AOL), would enable Yahoo to buy back some of its stock, which would likely elevate its stock price. "The chief benefit to Yahoo is the avoidance of a Microsoft deal," notes analyst Greg Sterling...
...late February, Google announced plans to launch an online database where patients can easily store and maintain health information. The website, called Google Health, mirrors similar efforts by rival Microsoft and Revolution Health Group, led by AOL founder Steve Case. All three products will allow patients to access records from anywhere in the world, letting the user upload medical records from one health-care provider and then easily share them with another physician or hospital - a capability more and more health-care providers are looking to adopt. Tullman says Allscripts plans to collaborate with both Microsoft and Google, particularly...
...cynical about the idea that film can make a difference," says Brett Morgen, 39, who directs activist cinema's latest entry: Chicago 10, the animated political history of the Chicago Seven. "To me, that all changed with An Inconvenient Truth. It became an inspiration for all of us." Former AOL executive Ted Leonsis coined the term filmanthropy to describe his four-year-old production company, Agape (Greek for unselfish love). "It's difficult to rationalize independent movies as a business," says Leonsis, who financed Nanking, a 2007 documentary about the "rape of Nanking," and Kicking It, a film about...