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Documents: Microsoft Allocates $1.5 Billion For Yahoo Employee Retention
Court documents cited by the Wall Street Journal (also CNET) show that Microsoft has set aside $1.5 billion to retain Yahoo employees in the event of a successful takeover. This is apparently not tied to the generous "poison pill" severance packages that Yahoo put in place in the event of... - Yang takes $1 salary in 2007; Former Yahoo execs made the most, ZDNet
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Create An Open Ad Profile?
Yahoo's mantra these days is openness. To that end Yahoo may create the ability for users to view their ad profiles -- the data that's being used to target them with advertising on Yahoo and its extended network. Yahoo EVP Jeff Weiner, speaking at the Economics of Social Media conference... - Google Toolbar
PageRank Update Creates Major Webmaster Buzz
Over the past few days, many webmasters and SEOs have been noticing an update to the PageRank score found in the Google Toolbar. Usually PageRank updates aren't that noteworthy, but it seems something is different about this PageRank update... - Tracking Your Twitter Growth With Twitterholic, TwitDir, Tweeterboard & Others, Daggle
- Twitter Wrote
This Column For Me
By now you have probably seen a bunch of talk about Twitter. And after all of this talk you might be still thinking: OK, so what the heck is Twitter really and why should I care? How is it going to help my business at the end of the... - Google Adds
Street Views To Step-By-Step Driving Directions
The Google LatLong Blog announced that you can now see street views turn-by-turn (when available) when you are seeking out driving directions via Google Maps. For example, when driving from the Empire State Building to Times Square, you can see that Google has street views available for every turn. A... - Google Ocean
To Complement Google Earth, Maps & Sky Soon
Google diving into 3D mapping of oceans from News.com reports Google is working on a new mapping system to map the Earth's oceans. The tool might be named Google Ocean and will compliment Google Earth and Google Sky. News.com says Google Ocean will contain 3D oceanographic maps with underwater topography,... -
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