Yahoo Bidders Come in at $16.50 to $17.50, With Plan to Keep Jerry Yang on Board

As the Yahoo turns, the board finally gets down to brass tacks of a possible deal.
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With No-Yahoo-CEO Pledge, David Kenny Back in the Strategic Fray

What will David Kenny do? Maybe get something cooking in the whole what-will-Yahoo-do stakes, now that one of Yahoo’s more active board members is back.
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Apple Brand Ascendent, While Yahoo’s Is in Marketing Retrograde

Way to go, Yahoo marketing! I think that pricey “It’s You” campaign might not have worked.
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After Pushing webOS Off a Cliff, HP Watches Its Stock Take a Deep Dive

In the 24 hours since Hewlett-Packard announced it was cutting production of its high-profile webOS devices and might spin off its huge consumer PC business, stock of the tech giant has plummeted 20 percent.
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News Corp. Faces the Myspace Music With a Big Writedown [Updated]

Here’s the flip side to News Corp.’s digital optimism: The company has taken a $275 million charge on Myspace and its related Web businesses, it disclosed in today’s quarterly earnings report.

Wall Street Welcomes the Content Farm: Demand Media Supersizes Its IPO

It’s the first big-name Web company to go public in a very, very long time. And there was enough appetite for Demand to sell more shares, at a higher price, than it had planned. Now everyone else gets to vote.

Eric Schmidt Lost $300 Million in Google CEO Shake-Up and He's Still Richer Than You

Google’s just given outgoing CEO Eric Schmidt a $100 million equity award. A nice little bonus, but not large enough to offset the losses he’s suffered since announcing he is stepping down as CEO.

Could Nokia's Miracle Be Microsoft?

Now that Nokia has a new CEO, should it adopt a new smartphone strategy as well? There are strong arguments on both sides. On the one hand, Nokia has put an awful lot of money and effort into Symbian^3 and MeeGo, the mobile operating systems with which it hopes to regain high-end leadership in the industry. On the other, the person who defined that strategy, former CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, was ousted last September after an ugly 70 percent decline in Nokia’s market value.

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo on Platforms, Reliability and Independence at D@CES

Twitter has crossed the threshold from Web novelty into something substantial. Now Dick Costolo’s job is to turn it into a business–one big enough to justify the sky-high valuation investors have given the messaging company.

Want Enterprise Growth, HP? Think Services.

Morgan Stanley analyst Kathryn Huberty sees a lot of potential for growth in HP’s Enterprise business, that is if it can negotiate a tricky cultural shift toward services.

Tumblr Falls Into a Really Big Pile of Money

RealNetworks Posts Q4 Loss