Technology Hacks from the Owl
SEATTLE: Microsoft Corporation plans to invest heavily in Web search to compete against Google Inc, even if it fails to acquire Yahoo Inc, the company’s chairman Bill Gates said. “We can afford to make big investments...
Take-Two has refused an offer by Electronic Arts to acquire the troubled publisher for $2 billion, GamesIndustry.biz reports. Although Take-Two [GTA publisher] has rejected the cash offer, EA has decided to keep the offer open. The...
Yahoo’s directors meeting is going on and a decision on part of yahoo is expected soon. Speaking on Microsoft/Yahoo, interviewed by Gavin Esler, with Robert Scoble in San Francisco, on Fri 1st Feb 2008.Copyright BBC,strictly. DOWNLOAD...
Microsoft has been sniffing around Yahoo for the last 18 months, but the twain could never quite agree on a fair deal in private. Microsoft has made a $44.6bn takeover bid for Yahoo!. “Today this market...
Source code for SimCity has been released under the GPL v3. The open source version was renamed Micropolis, which was apparently the original working title. Some cool changes have been made by Don Hopkins, who updated...
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In a case dating back to 1997, the companies have been accused of accepting payments from firms that advertise illegal gambling in the US. Microsoft, Yahoo!, and Google have agreed to pay a total amount of...
“Those people are not going to be allowed to take food off our plate, because that is what they are intending to do.” Impassioned words, coming from the chief operating officer of Microsoft, Kevin Turner, at...
Action thriller Bioshock has been awarded game of the year at the Spike TV awards in Las Vegas. The underwater adventure, widely praised for its storyline and production values, also won the prize for best Xbox...
Jim Goldman, CNBC’s Silicon Valley bureau chief, runs down everything we know about Google co-founder Larry Page’s wedding today to Lucy Southworth. Video HERE
