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Hulu goes live
By Michal Lev-Ram
After over a year of development, testing and refining, online video service Hulu launches Wednesday and viewers will get to chance to see if it lives up to all the hullabaloo.
A joint venture between News Corp.'s Fox (NWS) and NBC Universal (GE), Los Angeles-based Hulu says it aims to bring together the widest selection of free, "premium" videos on the Web. But unlike Google's YouTube (GOOG), where unauthorized MORE
Michal Lev-Ram, writer - Mar 12, 2008 1:09 PM ET -
Yahoo's last chance
In six weeks, Yahoo will get one more chance to prove it can turn things around without Microsoft. Courtesy of Yahoo.
Yahoo stock spiked after Microsoft's bid, reclaiming levels it last saw in November when investors were more optimistic.
Six weeks ago, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer sent shockwaves through the tech world when he offered more than $40 billion to buy Yahoo. And about six weeks from now, Yahoo's unwilling executives MORE
Jon Fortt - Mar 12, 2008 12:27 PM ET -
Rush Limbaugh gets special treatment from Apple
Here's one way to get moved to the head of the genius line: complain about your problem on a radio show carried by 650 stations across the U.S.
On Feb. 12, Rush Limbaugh, a self-proclaimed "big Mac guy," talked about two problems he was having with his computers after upgrading to Leopard -- one with how his mail was getting backed up in Time Machine and the other with seeing his MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 12, 2008 9:16 AM ET -
Fire in the iPod
Japan has ordered an investigation of the first generation iPod nano for possible defects after one started emitting sparks while being charged. According to wire service reports, the problem surfaced in January in Kanagawa Prefecture southwest of Tokyo, and Apple (AAPL) reported it to the government in March.
An official at Japan's ministry of trade and economy said a defect is suspected in the lithium-ion battery in the iPod Nano, model MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Mar 12, 2008 7:26 AM ET
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| JPMorgan Chase and C... | 36.24 | 0.45 | 1.26% |
| Microsoft Corp | 30.21 | -0.27 | -0.89% |
| General Electric Co | 18.40 | -0.20 | -1.08% |
| Ford Motor Co | 10.15 | -0.17 | -1.65% |
| Sprint Nextel Corp | 2.47 | -0.03 | -1.20% |
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