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Bigger had better be better, given the $44.6 billion price tag on Yahoo! That's massive in terms of both its stock price and the amount of money Yahoo! is expected to generate. The worse news is, you're not very good at the online-advertising game and you aren't buying anybody who is. Google figured out how to make more money per ad sale, on its own site and others, than either Microsoft or Yahoo! Online advertising is about size and smarts, and you've got only one. Google has both...
...marking a break with a decade of cautious reformism. That sets a new tone for elections in Hamburg and Bavaria later this year, as well as for federal elections in late 2009. In Berlin, it makes further economic reforms unlikely until a new government is sitting in the Bundes-tag. "Germans fear the negative effects of globalization," says Gero Neugebauer, a political scientist at Berlin's Free University. "The political parties have sensed that...
...Pilbeam’s aversion to the interim tag may be due in part to the negative associations that the label seems to evoke among representatives of both students and the Faculty, who believe that the transient tenures of top University officials in the past few years have retarded high-level decision-making...
...Barroso said the cost is low compared to the high price of inaction. "The longer we delay, the higher the costs of adaptation and mitigation," he said, adding that the overall price tag of the plan, at around 0.5% of E.U. gross domestic product, represented value for money over the long term. "This amounts to about three euros a week for everyone. A real commitment, but not a bad deal...
...China, if you charge money, you'll die fast," says Gong Haiyan, CEO and founder of the leading Web dating site, Jiayuan (formerly Love21cn). Chinese sites rely instead on online advertising and ticket sales from events such as speed-dating mixers that charge about $13 for admission (parents who tag along have to pay too). Another popular dating site, 915915.com.cn--in Chinese, the numbers sound like "only want me"--set up a "love cruise" in 2006 on the Huangpu River near Shanghai to introduce men worth at least 2 million yuan ($274,000) to attractive women. Edward Chiu...