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Oracle targets BEA in $6.7B deal (USATODAY.com)
Source: Yahoo! News - Oct 15 2007 08:23
USATODAY.com - SAN FRANCISCO - Pouncing on an opportunity to add another weapon in an increasingly bitter business software battle, Oracle has offered to buy struggling rival BEA Systems for $6.7 billion in its latest shot aimed at another industry leader, SAP.




Fla. researchers find 2nd Spanish shipwreck from 1559
Source: USATODAY.com - Oct 13 2007 07:10
In 1559, a hurricane plunged as many as seven Spanish sailing vessels to the bottom of Pensacola Bay.


Snocap cuts staff (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News - Oct 12 2007 20:33
AP - Snocap Inc., which developed technology for buying music downloads on MySpace.com, said Friday it has cut its work force by nearly half so it can focus on a strategy to sell the company.

Update: Symantec to buy DLP specialist Vontu (InfoWorld)
Source: Yahoo! News - Oct 12 2007 20:20
InfoWorld - Security software giant Symantec is preparing to announce an acquisition of Vontu, one the largest remaining independent providers of data leakage prevention software, which is used to control the flow of sensitive information across corporate networks.

Future may be murky for Yahoo and newspaper alliance
Source: Reuters - Oct 11 2007 16:35
NEW YORK (Reuters) - An alliance between hundreds of newspaper sites and Yahoo Inc has helped publishers increase advertising, but it will saddle them with unproven technology and costs them some independence and flexibility.


Online bid for rich husband deemed poor offer (Reuters)
Source: Yahoo! News - Oct 10 2007 08:59

A woman walks past the Louis Vuitton store in New York, February 15, 2007. A woman's online bid to find a rich husband in New York earning more than $500,000 a year has caused an Internet stir with a mystery Wall Street banker publicly assessing her hunt for romance as a business deal -- and a bad one at that. (Keith Bedford/Reuters)Reuters - Deal or no deal? A woman's online bid to find a rich husband in New York earning more than $500,000 a year has caused an Internet stir with a mystery Wall Street banker publicly assessing her hunt for romance as a business deal -- and a bad one at that.



Dust in black hole winds helped form early stars
Source: USATODAY.com - Oct 10 2007 07:23
Astronomers have taken a baby step in trying to answer the cosmic question of where we come from. It's all in the wind bursting ...


Nintendo to launch Wii Fit game
Source: Reuters - Oct 10 2007 04:21
CHIBA, Japan (Reuters) - Nintendo Co Ltd said on Wednesday it would start selling its "Wii Fit" home fitness game in Japan in time for the year-end shopping season, sending its shares to a record high.


Cubans go to unusual lengths to post blogs
Source: Reuters - Oct 9 2007 20:56
HAVANA (Reuters) - When 32-year-old Yoani Sanchez wants to update her blog about daily life in Cuba, she dresses like a tourist and strides confidently into a Havana hotel, greeting the staff in German.


Yahoo to buy stake in Alibaba.com (Reuters)
Source: Yahoo! News - Oct 9 2007 08:36

Women walk past Yahoo office in Santa Monica, California, October 3, 2007. Yahoo will buy 10 percent of a share sale by Alibaba.com, China's biggest e-commerce firm, as it steps up a battle with Google and Baidu in the world's second-biggest Internet market. (Lucy Nicholson/Reuters)Reuters - Yahoo Inc will buy 10 percent of a share sale by Alibaba.com Ltd, China's biggest e-commerce firm, as it steps up a battle with Google Inc and Baidu in the world's second-biggest Internet market.



Microsoft, 'Halo' creators split (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News - Oct 5 2007 16:43

Employees work on Halo games Friday, Oct. 5, 2007, at Bungie Studios in Kirkland, Wash. Microsoft Corp. has spun off Bungie Studios, creator of the blockbuster 'Halo' video game trilogy, but said Friday it will maintain close ties with the company and own a minority stake in it. Privately held Bungie LLC will develop games exclusively for Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Windows PC platforms 'for the foreseeable future,' said Harold Ryan, Bungie's president and studio head, in an interview. The two companies said they will continue to work together to support the 'Halo' franchise — including 'Halo 3' released Sept. 25 — and will expand their partnership to include new games.  (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)AP - Bungie Studios, the "Halo" video game developer acquired by Microsoft Corp. in 2000, is once again operating as an independent company, Microsoft said Friday.



US court in record fine for illegal file-sharing (AFP)
Source: Yahoo! News - Oct 5 2007 04:07

A man listens to new releases while shopping at a music store in New York City.  In the first US trial to challenge the illegal downloading of music on the Internet, a single mother from Minnesota was ordered Thursday to pay 220,000 dollars for sharing 24 songs online.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Spencer Platt)AFP - In the first US trial to challenge the illegal downloading of music on the Internet, a single mother from Minnesota was ordered Thursday to pay 220,000 dollars for sharing 24 songs online.



Teens to parents: It's our Facebook
Source: USATODAY.com - Oct 4 2007 07:34
That month, about 75,000 active Facebook users on the site were 35 or older, accounting for fewer than 1% of all active users, ...


Woman sues over Apple's iPhone price cut (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News - Oct 2 2007 08:53
AP - A New York woman is so angry at Apple Inc. for lopping $200 off the price of the iPhone that she's filed a lawsuit seeking $1 million in damages.

World's most boring TV show to measure energy use
Source: Reuters - Oct 2 2007 08:21
GENEVA (Reuters) - Television manufacturers and broadcasters have produced what may be the world's most boring TV program to measure energy consumption on new-generation televisions, an energy standards group said on Tuesday.


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