Quickies: MacBook air killer is official!
Following weeks of speculation about Lenovo’s alleged “MacBook-Air killer,” the company has finally given the ThinkPad X300 a green light.
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Quickies: Yahoo! Filters Pirate Bay From Search Results
As of this weekend, Yahoo started to filter some of Pirate Bay’s pages. For some mysterious reason, several pages from the tracker disappeared from Yahoo’s index. Unintentionally or not, a search for “The Pirate Bay” doesn’t show a link to the homepage of the popular BitTorrent tracker.
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Quickies: Harvard Site Hacked and Leaked on BitTorrent
The Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences website appears to have been the subject of a major security breach, as server backups, site databases and contact databases are leaked to BitTorrent. The 125MB file is currently being tracked by The Pirate Bay.
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Quickies: Yahoo to reject Microsoft bid
According to the Wall Street Journal, Yahoo is going to reject Microsoft's takeover bid.
Great news to see that Yahoo is loving its users and will not give them for money.
After a series of meetings over the past week, Yahoo's board determined that the $31 per share offer "massively undervalues" Yahoo, the person said
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Quickies: 16GB Apple iPhone
And yes... we now have a 16GB version of the well known iPhone. Hope the 3G one is coming soon because there are a lot of people out there that are waiting for it.
16GB iPhone just around the corner?
Quickies: Microsoft to buy Yahoo?
This could be for real because Microsoft made an offer of $45B to Yahoo to acquire all outstanding shares of Yahoo!
REDMOND, Wash. — Feb. 1, 2008 — Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ:MSFT) today announced that it has made a proposal to the Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) Board of Directors to acquire all the outstanding shares of Yahoo! common stock for per share consideration of $31 representing a total equity value of approximately $44.6 billion. Microsoft’s proposal would allow the Yahoo! shareholders to elect to receive cash or a fixed number of shares of Microsoft common stock, with the total consideration payable to Yahoo! shareholders consisting of one-half cash and one-half Microsoft common stock. The offer represents a 62 percent premium above the closing price of Yahoo! common stock on Jan. 31, 2008.
"We have great respect for Yahoo!, and together we can offer an increasingly exciting set of solutions for consumers, publishers and advertisers while becoming better positioned to compete in the online services market," said Steve Ballmer.
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Yahoo: Revenue $6.7 billion (2007), NASDAQ: YHOO
Microsoft: Revenue $51.12 billion (2007), NASDAQ: MSFT
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