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John Sculley on Apple’s Jobs and the Experience of a Lifetime

In 1983, when John Sculley was 43, he had a choice. He could remain head of Pepsi-Cola Co. and jockey with several other executives to be named successor to then-PepsiCo Chief Executive Donald Kendall in a typical corporate executive shootout.

Yahoo’s China Settlement Fails to Stem Its Stock Decline

You would think the settlement of a major dispute would goose the stock of a company, but Yahoo’s deal with its Chinese partner Alibaba Group on Friday did exactly the opposite.
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Yahoo-Alibaba-SoftBank Settlement Call: At Least It’s Not 100 Percent of Zero!

As these companies are wont to do in the middle of the night, Yahoo, SoftBank and the Alibaba Group have reached an agreement in their nasty dispute around the Alipay payments unit, and they are ready to talk about it.
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China Solution: Yahoo, SoftBank and Alibaba Reach Agreement

Yahoo, SoftBank and Alibaba have reached an agreement in their contentious dispute around the Alipay payments unit.
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Plastic Surgeon Figures in Google Face-Off in Spain

In 1991, the Spanish newspaper El País published an article centered on a dispute between Madrid plastic surgeon Hugo Guidotti Russo and one of his patients over an allegedly botched breast surgery. The headline: “The Risk of Wanting to Be Slim.”

Intel Will Pay Nvidia $1.5 Billion to "Maintain Patent Peace"

A cross-licensing agreement brings to an end what could have been an ugly and expensive trial.

Money! Pink Floyd Stays at EMI–and iTunes.

Roger Waters and crew said they didn’t want their record label selling singles in Apple’s music store. But those concerns seem to have been resolved.

Mark Hurd Really Wants to Keep the Jodie Fisher Letter Private

Shareholders suing HP want to make public the letter that cost Hurd his job as CEO. He disagrees, and has asked a judge to let him become a party to the lawsuit.

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Web-Traffic Spat Over Netflix Highlights New Tensions

U.S. regulators are looking into a dispute between two large companies that shuttle traffic around the Internet, a business invisible to most consumers but increasingly fraught with tension. The issue gets to the heart of a longstanding argument: Who should pay for the Internet?

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Turkey Blocks, Unblocks YouTube

YouTube was blocked and unblocked again in Turkey on Tuesday, as a dispute continued over the popular video-sharing site’s refusal to remove videos deemed illegal by Turkish courts, worldwide.

Lawsuit Non-News! PING Golf Won't Sue Apple

RIM: Hasta La Visto, Baby

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