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...Yahoo's market value has dropped to $17 billion. Its value now is about the same as trash hauling firm Waste Management (WMI). In the last quarter, the portal company had an operating loss of $278 million. With goodwill and restructuring charges taken out, Yahoo would have made a modest profit. The sales are not likely to get better...
...numbers are not the reason that Yahoo does not matter. What matters is that it is no longer a company with even a modest voice in the media industry. The time when Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer might have bought it or its search division is probably over. Ballmer is, as most good businessmen should be, ruthless beyond the imagination of the general public. He gave Yahoo's board a chance to do the right thing for its shareholders. Once Yahoo turned Ballmer down, he kept leaking comments about ongoing interest to the press. Just as Yahoo was beginning take...
...some may actually be hiring. The other firms included have large amounts of cash on their balance sheets and have elected to use the slow economy to develop new products and services to take share away from financially weaker competitors. A few of the companies on this list had modest job cuts last year. None of them were significant and are highly unlikely to happen again. ( See pictures of TIME's Wall Street covers...
...mathematically modeling the data.“You’d like us to tell you what this means for consciousness or for uncovering how diseases act in the brain, but we are far from that,” Sanes says. In the meantime, Sanes has a more modest goal: mapping only the neural passageways from the eyes to the brain, carefully matching up the colors on each slice to create a complete picture of the neurons, and ultimately, their functions.The researchers say they hope discovering how and why neurons change will help answer why human brains are truly different...
...hope for such a turn was surely dampened by the Federal Reserve's new reading on the economy. Details of a meeting of Fed officials in late January reveal that they expect the economy to contract this year as much as 1.3%, a sharp downgrade from their expectation for modest growth in 2009, expressed last fall. The Fed also said that unemployment could reach 9% by the end of the year...