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...Silicon Valley, comeback stories comes in three sizes: large, extra-large and epic. So when Sun Microsystems and Google announced this week an agreement to distribute software together, some observers quickly pumped up the familiar Microsoft versus [insert latest tech threat here] story. Sun?s CEO is the fallen tech star Scott McNealy, who seems to be obsessed with vanquishing Microsoft. Google, the game-changing upstart, is now led by a battle-worn veteran, Eric Schmidt, who has been beaten up a couple times by Microsoft himself, but lived to fight another...
...Beijing's control of the Internet is bolstered by its success at enlisting the aid of foreign companies such as Microsoft, Google and Yahoo!, all of which run online operations on the mainland. The fast- growing China market is key to their global strategies, and they are loath to antagonize their host nation. Yahoo!'s China operation was widely criticized last month for turning over information to the police that helped send journalist Shi Tao to prison for 10 years (Shi had posted a list of topics that Chinese newspapers were forbidden to cover, including the anniversary...
...throwing money at the problem. Instead, Wood seeks to make the community a stakeholder by encouraging local contributions. For example, in Nepal, families brought 50-kg bags of grain which were sold off, raising $1,500 to add to Room to Read's $8,000. Wood, 41, a former Microsoft executive, combines the passion of a crusader with the calculation?and ambition?of a CEO. The lofty goal: 20,000 schools and libraries worldwide by 2020. Says Wood: "There is no better long-term gift you can give a child than the lifelong gift of education...
...virtual wedding bells about to chime for America Online and Microsoft? Senior execs from AOL and Time Warner (which owns AOL and TIME) have been meeting with Microsoft officials for several months, trying to work out a deal that could unite AOL with Microsoft's MSN network. The talks, which were first reported in the New York Post, have risen to the highest levels of both companies, involving direct discussions between Time Warner CEO Dick Parsons and Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer, says a source close to the talks. Negotiations are now at an impasse over key technology issues, such...
...together now? Microsoft and AOL fought bitterly during the browser wars of the '90s and vied for dial-up customers before broadband took off. Today they're losing billions in ad revenues to Google and Yahoo. By consolidating their websites into a mammoth network, they could sell ads across the board. Hooking up would be a defensive play too. Google raised $4.1 billion in a stock offering last week and has been encroaching on Microsoft's most precious turf, the computer desktop. Microsoft is worried about falling further behind Google in the Web-search races and would love...