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Weekend Update, 3.21.09–March Madness Edition

Beth Callaghan in News on March 21, 2009 at 5:10 pm PT

Technically, the term refers to the frenzied flow of games and the intensity of the contenders for the NCAA Championship crown. But the NCAA doesn’t have a corner on “March Madness”–those descriptors work well in other instances, too. To wit:

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on Yahoo Talks: We’re Still Waiting for Carol

Peter Kafka in Media on March 19, 2009 at 7:39 am PT

In the Microsoft-Yahoo saga, no news still constitutes news: Steve Ballmer still wants to do a search deal, but he still hasn’t talked to Carol Bartz about it yet. In other non-news: Ballmer doesn’t own anything made by Apple.