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Every time there is news about the internet portal Yahoo!(YHOO), it makes the front pages. The only story about Yahoo, however, that deserved attention was the monstrous violation of fiduciary duty that its board made when it turned down Microsoft's (MSFT) offer to buy the company. Beyond that, Yahoo is now a relatively small company with faltering profits that is no longer even important to its own industries, either media or the internet...
...economy, Ballmer was messing with the minds of its board and shareholders. He did not get the chance to buy Yahoo, so he poisoned its well instead by keeping the market, the company's employees, and its board in a constant state of hyper-vigilance about a new offer which Microsoft never had any intention of making...
...world of the internet because it has the same e-mail, content, TV guide, shopping, mapping, and personal ad sections as the other portals do. None of these is distinguished. These features are, as a matter of fact, nearly interchangeable with the similar features that its competitors offer...
...plans to offer similar terms to both General Motors and Chrysler LLC, sources indicated. Officials from both companies, which together asked for more than $21.6 billion in loans last week, declined to comment on the Ford deal. Both companies are supposed to have deals with the union wrapped up by March...
...Muslim world has, by and large, been portrayed in the media in conjunction with politics, international relations, and violence. Images like those described above are rarely seen. “It is so easy to fall back on stereotypes. Images produced and reinforced through movies and other media offer tempting caricatures of the complex world we live in, not just of Muslims but of numerous others in our midst,” says Na’eel A. Cajee ’10, president of the Harvard Islamic Society. “The media we expose ourselves to powerfully impacts...