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...11th grade, Allante Rhodes spent 50 minutes a day in a Microsoft Word class at Anacostia Senior High School in Washington. He was determined to go to college, and he figured that knowing Word was a prerequisite. But on a good day, only six of the school's 14 computers worked. He never knew which ones until he sat down and searched for a flicker of life on the screen. "It was like Russian roulette," says Rhodes, a tall young man with an older man's steady gaze. If he picked the wrong computer, the teacher would give...
...cool, and also you don’t really know what you’re getting as it comes at you.” The first, and currently only, edition of The Warble features a webcomic, two poems, two short films, two short stories, and a picture drawn using Microsoft Paint...
RESIGNED Jerry Yang, 40, the Yahoo! co-founder who took over as CEO a year ago, said he would step down Nov. 17. Beset by criticism after Yang rejected a buyout bid from Microsoft, the ailing search company saw its shares jump 8% the day after his announcement...
...announcement that Jerry Yang will step down as CEO of Yahoo! was welcome news to investors still seething that the founder turned down an acquisition offer from Microsoft earlier this year worth some $46 billion. (After Yang demanded $4 more per share than Microsoft's offer, the software giant walked away.) Yahoo! is in trouble - its stock price has fallen to around $11 from $29 in February 2008 and it's way behind Google and others in the fast-moving Internet innovation game. (The stock rallied slightly upon news of Yang's departure.) Yang, who took...
...opinion, you might have to get rid of Jerry and part of the board to bring back Microsoft." - Activist Investor and Yahoo! shareholder Carl Icahn, after Yang turned down Microsoft's 2008 buyout offer (New York Times...