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How Facebook, Google, and Yahoo Are Making Ads Part of Your Life
Owen Thomas · 03/04/09 03:46PMBill Gates's Wife Outruns Marissa Mayer
Owen Thomas · 03/04/09 03:19PMEven Microsoft Executive Can't Handle PowerPoint
Owen Thomas · 02/25/09 10:08PMGreen As an Apple with iPhone Envy
Owen Thomas · 02/16/09 05:53PMFacebook's Value: $3.7 Billion and Dropping
Owen Thomas · 02/11/09 10:16PMBill Gates Unleashes Mosquito Swarm
Owen Thomas · 02/04/09 04:01PMThe Shirts Off of Microsoft's Back
Owen Thomas · 02/02/09 12:40PMMicrosoft's Self-Destructing Email Pink Slips
Owen Thomas · 01/23/09 05:16PMThe Man Behind Microsoft's Overdue Layoffs
Owen Thomas · 01/22/09 01:59PMMore Cuts at UBS, Fresh Controversy for Merrill
cityfile · 01/22/09 07:02AM• UBS will make a fourth round of job cuts and is closing several divisions. [BN]
• A class-action lawsuit has been filed against Bank of America for failing to disclose the risks associated with the acquisition of Merrill Lynch. [Reuters]
• More BoA-Merrill trouble: It seems the bank accelerated bonus payments last month so it could hand out the cash before the bank changed hands. [FT]
• The SEC has filed charges against missing hedge funder Arthur Nadal. [NYP]
• Win Bischoff's goodbye email to Citigroup employees. [Deal Journal]
• A record $152 billion was pulled from hedge funds in the fourth quarter. [DB]
• In other bad news, Microsoft is cutting 5,000, Intel is laying off 6,000, and Sony says it lost $2 billion more than expected last year. [WSJ, CNN, BN]
Microsoft Ad and Product Advertised Could Both Conceivably Make You Want to Kill Your Family
Hamilton Nolan · 01/13/09 05:35PMMicrosoft Preparing to Put Zune Out of Its Misery
Owen Thomas · 01/09/09 11:11AMYahoo's Depressing Backup Plan
Owen Thomas · 01/08/09 05:25PMPick the Most Annoying Commercial of 2008
Hamilton Nolan · 12/19/08 01:29PMMicrosoft's quest for meaninglessness
Owen Thomas · 12/17/08 01:40PMWe're All Cyberchondriacs
cityfile · 12/15/08 10:00AMIt's become an integral part of modern life: You experience a random physical symptom—a headache, say, or a muscle twitch, or a rash—and whereas in those prelapsarian days before the internet, it might have preoccupied you briefly then disappeared before you'd even gotten around to calling a doctor, now a quick Google search will diagnose it as the first sign of a devastating, and terminal, disease. Cyberchondria is epidemical, a new study reveals, which is not surprising given that web searches tend to offer the impression that rare, fatal illnesses are afflicting people like colds and flus.
Why Pamela Anderson can't beat Google
Owen Thomas · 12/14/08 07:00PMNeed more examples? Here are commercials from MSN, Yahoo, and Ask.com. (I found them using Google and YouTube, a Google-owned video-hosting site.) Do any of them articulate a reason to switch search engines?
Zune-phone rumor refuses to die
Paul Boutin · 11/25/08 03:43PMThe Inquirer is convinced that Microsoft will launch a Microsoft-branded Zune phone in February. Not some other brand's phone running Windows, but an actually iPhone-wannabe Microsoft Zune phone. The Inq cites a geek detail to make it real: The phone will use Nvidia's Tegra mobile CPU chip, not unlike this Nvidia prototype CNET handled. In theory, that means it can do most of what a desktop PC can do. In practice, that means it'll probably be hated on as just much as Vista.
Microsoft now 5th worst ISP for spam
Paul Boutin · 11/21/08 06:19PM"Spammers and scam artists are abusing Microsoft's live.com and livefilestore.com properties to redirect visitors to sites that peddle fake pharmacy products, porn and Nigerian 419 scams." That's how WaPo security blogger Brian Krebs explains Microsoft's appearance on the list of Top 10 Worst Spam Service ISPs maintained by the non-profit Spamhaus Project. Krebs got a non-denial denial from Microsoft that overlooks the fact that many of the scams have been high-profile examples for months. As Krebs points out, even the directionless dweebs at Yahoo (I'm paraphrasing) fixed this problem on their own sites.