42 posts and columns on New York Post
Carl Icahn May Walk Away From Dell Proxy Fight He Started
After a brazen entrance, a quiet exit?Cops to Boston Bombing Crowdsourcers: Please Don’t Try This at Home
The Internet did have an impact on the investigation. Hard to argue that it was a positive one.News Corp. Shutters The Daily iPad App
Official cause of death: The News Corp. corporate split. The real problem: A flawed concept.Never Mind! Cisco Still Totally Hearts Set-Top Boxes.
Another round of rumors that Cisco is out to sell its TV set-top box business gets slapped down.Last Night’s Amazing 9/11 Memorial Photo Is a Year Old
But more important: Photographer John de Guzman isn’t particularly happy that the image went viral.Geek-tastic! Twitter Queen Kim Kardashian Reportedly to Wed at Eric Schmidt’s SoCal Estate (Or at Kleiner Partner’s Luxe Crib).
Here’s a delicious juxtaposition you don’t get often: Various reports indicate that reality show empress Kim Kardashian’s upcoming wedding to New Jersey Nets basketball player Kris Humphries will be held at either the Montecito estate of Google’s Executive Chairman and former CEO Eric Schmidt or that of a VC legend.Voices
Seagate: Buyout Talks Live, Financing In Place, N.Y. Post Says
Seagate shares are getting a boost this morning from an upbeat story in the New York Post on the prospects for talks on taking the company private. Yesterday, the stock took a hit on a report that talks had collapsed. That was followed by multiple reports that KKR was likely to drop out of a group that has been discussing making an offer for the disk-drive maker.News Byte
Report: EMC Bidding to Buy Isilon
The New York Post is hearing from a source that data-storage leader EMC is wooing Isilon, a specialist in “clustered storage,” with a $2 billion acquisition offer and that a deal should be sealed before the end of the year. The report also says that EMC-controlled VMware is talking to Novell about buying its SUSE Linux business.Microsoft's Billion Dollar Media Bailout Plan
The advertising recovery is already in the works, but this could help move it along quite nicely: Close to a billion dollars to help promote big product launches from Redmond.News Byte