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Today in Tech: Yahoo products RIP, Oracle beats Street
A curated selection of the day's most newsworthy tech stories from all over the Web.
Hot on the heels of layoffs comes news that Yahoo is shutting down eight products, including MyBlogLog, Yahoo! Picks, AltaVista, Yahoo! Bookmarks, Yahoo! Buzz and Delicious. Meanwhile, other products like Fire Eagle and Yahoo People Search will be merged, and Yahoo! Alerts and Yahoo! Calendar will be turned into features which will presumably be implemented elsewhere. MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Dec 17, 2010 8:27 AM ET -
Today in Tech: News around the Web
A round-up of the companies, deals, and trends that made headlines.
Every day, the Fortune staff spends hours poring over tech stories, posts, and reviews from all over the Web to keep tabs on the companies that matter. We've assembled the day's most newsworthy bits below.
In light of reports that private equity players approached AOL and News Corp. to make unsolicited bids for Yahoo, the Internet company has asked Goldman Sachs to MORE JP Mangalindan, Writer - Oct 15, 2010 8:23 AM ET -
Today in Tech: News around the Web
A round-up of the companies, deals, and trends that made headlines.
Every day, the Fortune staff spends hours poring over tech stories, posts, and reviews from all over the Web to keep tabs on the companies that matter. We've assembled the day's most newsworthy bits below.
"AMD is not for sale, but we are happy to listen to any proposal which is in the interest to our shareholders." -- Dirk Meyer on Oracle's MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Oct 7, 2010 8:21 AM ET -
Today in Tech: News around the Web
A round-up of the companies, deals, and trends that made headlines.
Every day, the Fortune staff spends hours poring over tech stories, posts, and reviews from all over the Web to keep tabs on the companies that matter. We've assembled the day's most newsworthy bits below.
"Americans are somewhat self-absorbed." -- Netflix CEO Reed Hastings on whether U.S. citizens would notice the company's cheaper Canadian pricing. (Gizmodo)
Verizon Communications' CEO Ivan Seidenberg announced Verizon Wireless MORE JP Mangalindan, Writer - Sep 24, 2010 7:30 AM ET -
Today in tech: News around the Web
A round-up of the companies, deals, and trends that made headlines.
Every day, the Fortune staff spends hours poring over tech stories, posts, and reviews from all over the Web to keep tabs on the companies that matter. We've assembled the morning's most newsworthy bits below.
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg granted The New Yorker unprecedented access for a profile in the latest issue. Among the revelations: Zuckerberg has 879 Facebook friends, MORE JP Mangalindan, Writer - Sep 14, 2010 8:20 AM ETPosted in: 3Par, Aaron Sorkin, Amazon, AMD, Facebook, Financial, HP, Intel, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckeberg, Mobile, Nvidia, Sandy Bridge, social network, StorSimple, Walmart -
AMD: Ready to play ball
After decades of being viewed as an inexpensive, also-ran chip manufacturer, AMD is in a better position to compete. Much of that has to do with CEO Dirk Meyer.
Dirk Meyer has been good for AMD.
While it's far too early to say whether the chip company will budge Intel's stranglehold over the x86-based processor market, Meyer, who started with the company as an engineer in 1995 to work on the MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Aug 30, 2010 12:08 PM ET -
ARM and Intel's new battleground: the living room
One chipmaker rules the mobile device arena; the other dominates personal computers. Both have ambitious goals for expansion, and that means butting heads is inevitable
By Seth Weintraub and JP Mangalindan
As Intel's power-hungry chips grow more efficient and ARM CPU designs make strides in performance, the two chipmakers find themselves facing off for market share in a familial safe ground that's become a veritable hot zone brimming with untapped potential and MORE
Jun 8, 2010 2:07 PM ET -
Intel vs. AMD gets interesting again
Left for dead, AMD is showing why it can never be counted out.
When I sat down with AMD CEO Dirk Meyer a few weeks ago to talk about how he planned to invigorate the wayward chipmaker, Intel barely came up.
Now it's clear why. Rather than focus on his perennial rival, Meyer has been whipping his own company into shape. The results so far look promising: AMD (AMD) is poised to MORE
Jon Fortt - May 12, 2010 3:07 PM ET -
How Intel plans to thrive in a post-PC world
Paul Otellini, Intel's CEO, says revenue and earnings growth are poised to double. How? By going after every gadget on earth.
Facing a burgeoning market for all manner of computing, from notebooks to smartphones, tablets and even cars, Intel (INTC) CEO Paul Otellini projected Tuesday that both earnings and revenue would grow in "the low double digits over the next few years." Current growth rates are roughly half that. When asked MORE
Michael V. Copeland, Senior Writer - May 11, 2010 2:17 PM ET -
In Abu Dhabi, rulers grill tech and media gurus on monetization
ABU DHABI – News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch told government officials and financiers here Tuesday that the best way to grow a thriving media economy in the Middle East is to take risks. That, he said, will mean limiting censorship and opening up to foreign competition – even when it hurts.
Sure, the message was a little self-serving; Murdoch wants to expand his media empire in the burgeoning Middle East market, MORE
Jon Fortt - Mar 10, 2010 6:17 AM ETPosted in: Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi Media Summit, AMD, AOL, Apple, Asus, Google, KT, Microsoft, News Corp.
