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...surprising that Yang is stepping down as chief executive of Yahoo! His failure in June to accept an offer from Microsoft that would have paid stockholders $33 a share was the coup de schnook. So why didn't the board of directors oust him by Labor Day? Yes, there was the wrath of Carl Icahn, the proxy fight, the settlement that resulted in a reconstituted board. But that circus was all over and done with by July...
...where I was a reporter.) Using Ebbin's expertise, the gay donors - none of whom live in Virginia - began contributing to certain candidates in the state. There were five benefactors: David Bohnett of Beverly Hills, Calif., who in 1999 sold the company he had co-founded, Geo-Cities, to Yahoo! in a deal worth $5 billion on the day it was announced; Timothy Gill of Denver, another tech multimillionaire; James Hormel of San Francisco, grandson of George, who founded the famous meat company; Jon Stryker of Kalamazoo, Mich., the billionaire grandson of the founder of medical-technology giant Stryker Corp...
...Harvard College Library released the new program “Ask Us Live!” that connects students with librarians Thursday through Sunday from 3:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. The system operates through the web messenger Meebo, which requires no downloads and can access Google, AIM, Yahoo! Messenger, and MSN accounts. Students can reach the service through a link in the upper left-hand corner of HCL’s Web site. Participating librarians undergo a 10-minute training session to practice instant messaging through Meebo. During the service’s hours, they answer questions while...
Last week, Google launched the latest e-mail innovation sure to have the boys over at Yahoo! shaking their heads in shame: Mail Goggles. According to the Gmail blog, Mail Goggles were designed to help prevent users from sending those all-too-common “what the hell was I thinking?” e-mails that seemed so sensible at the time...
...could argue that she was dumb for picking these questions and providing her correct information," says Markus Jakobsson, a principal scientist at the Palo Alto Research Center, a subsidiary of Xerox. "But we shouldn't judge her on her ability to make security-related decisions ... This is not about Yahoo! This is about industry failure." (Jakobsson is currently developing a security system that prompts users to answer a battery of preference questions when they establish an account. If they forget their password, users must answer a certain percentage of their preference questions correctly to retrieve...