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Never mind that it was a bad idea.
Never mind that the combination of Microsoft and Yahoo will be less of a company than the two companies separately.
The fact is that Microsoft bid for Yahoo and even raised its offer in the 11th hour with Microsoft ultimately offering $33 per share, but Yahoo wouldn’t bite.
Chairman Jerry [...]

$41 billion.
I mean, let’s take a moment and think about this. $41 Billion.
Yahoo sells about $7B, has gross profit of about $4B, and net income of about $0.7B.
Let’s be generous and say they net about $1B today.
This means that Microsoft will be getting a 2.5% return on this investment if things remain the same.
Of course [...]

Microsoft finally announced Saturday that it will stop making HD DVD players for its Xbox 360 video game system after Toshiba announced the end of the high-definition video format battle with Sony’s Blu-Ray format.
“HD DVD is one of the several ways we offer a high definition experience to consumers and we will continue to give consumers [...]

A Princeton University group has developed a simple method to steal encrypted information stored on computer hard disks.
The technique is as easy as chilling a computer memory chip with a blast of frigid air.
In a technical paper that was published Thursday on the Web site of Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy, the group demonstrated that [...]