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Given Intel's (INTC) mergers and acquisitions track record -- it spent $11 billion-plus for some 40 companies between 1999 and 2003 only to shutter or sell them all -- the outlook for its recent spending spree for TI's cable mobile division, McAfee (MFE) and Infineon's (IFNNF) Wireless Solutions looks iffy. (TechCrunch)- HP (HPQ) is reportedly looking internally for its new CEO. Among the potential candidates: Todd Bradley, Executive VP of HP's $28 billion Personal Systems Group, Ann Livermore, Executive VP of Enterprise Business, and Dave Donatelli, Executive VP of Enterprise Servers, Storage and Networking. (Wall Street Journal)
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Cuil not a Google killer - yet
By Yi-Wyn Yen
Within hours of being launched Monday, Cuil - a new search engine created by former top Google engineers - was already being touted in the blogosphere as the next Google killer. But unless Cuil (pronounced 'cool') can develop an ad platform to rival Google's, the startup will have a difficult time challenging the search giant.
The comparisons to Google (GOOG) were inevitable. Cuil was founded by several lead engineers MORE
yiwyn - Jul 28, 2008 10:15 PM ET
