Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Icahn Begins Work on Next Irate Yahoo Memo
Shareholders suing Yahoo’s board of directors for its alleged mishandling of the Microsoft buyout offer may find their efforts to pull the company’s controversial severance plan something of a fool’s errand. Because according to a new company filing, their chances of forcing Yahoo to scrap the plan are about as good as their chances of forcing CEO Jerry Yang to use capital letters in his all-hands memos just like a big boy.
Friday, June 6, 2008
Yahoo Rubber, Icahn Glue
Well, that was fast. Yahoo has issued a reply to Carl Icahn’s latest missive. Terse and caustic, it doesn’t really add much to the “conversation” between the two parties. Yahoo’s message to Icahn: You don’t have a credible plan to operate Yahoo either.
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Sure They’re Not Clearing the Decks for the New Nokia Clamshell?
As the anniversary of the iPhone’s market debut approaches, the Mac faithful are quickly succumbing to Apple Rumor Seasonal Affective Disorder, an ailment most often associated with the lead-up to Macworld.
Fueling that trend today is a memo, purportedly leaked from inside AT&T, instructing employees not to schedule any vacation between June 15 and July 12 to ensure sufficient staffing for “an exciting Summer Promotional Launch.”
Sunday, May 4, 2008
Return to Yangtanic!
So after months of negotiations and posturing, Microsoft has given up its efforts to buy Yahoo. And according to Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang, that’s good news.
Indeed, people close to Yahoo said that Yang and Co. greeted the withdrawal of Microsoft’s bid as a victory, with a celebratory exchange of high-fives.
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
EarthLink Announces Third-Quarter Employee Loss
EarthLink will have several hundred fewer jobs to offshore come tomorrow. This afternoon, the struggling Internet service provider announced plans to sack 900 employees–about half its workforce–as part of a broad corporate restructuring that will shutter company offices in San Francisco; Orlando, Fla.; Knoxville, Tenn.; and Harrisburg, Penn. “While we see this as an [...]
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- Godzilla’s Food, Exercise, and Dream Diary
12:58 AM: Breakfast: Two schools of fish from Tokyo Bay. Calories: 782,000. How I was feeling when I ate this: confused, irradiated, hating my size.
11:37 AM: Exercise: “Taxi Stomp” (alternating legs, for 30 blocks). Calories burned: 148,900,183. - Scenes From An Alternate Universe Where The Beatles Accepted Lorne Michaels’ Generous Offer
1983. The Beatles announce their first tour in thirteen years, but likewise announce that Michael Jackson will be going on tour with them as a one gigantic mega-concert event.
- The Golden Age of Video
Best video mashup ever.
- I’m not dead yet
A Facebook Memorial
- Pulp Fiction Audio Mix
Wow.
- A world without the Internet
Worth it for the Rickrolling photo alone.
- Google Wave Cinema: Pulp Fiction
Excellent.
- Dead Fly Art
Flughumor!
- Happy Birthday Monty Python …
… you vacuous, toffee-nosed, malodorous perverts
- ‘You are being shagged by a rare parrot’
Stephen Fry and zoologist Mark Carwardine meet the kakapo — a fat, flightless and very randy rare parrot.
