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HP set to ask Walter Hewlett to resign?
News With fevers running high over the contested Compaq merger, HP directors may use Thursday's board meeting to call for the resignation of dissident Walter Hewlett.
ICANN drops plan to approve .xxx
News Government advisory committee said it needs more time to review .xxx domain proposal.
Tags: Domain names, Government
UK watchdog seeks to curb illegal Web content
News Newsgroups that host illegal content in the UK could be closed down as the country's biggest Internet watchdog gets tough on child porn.
Yahoo board approves AOL talks
News Yahoo's new board has decided to allow talks between the company and Time Warner over the future of AOL, according to a report.
Tags: Legal, Search, Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc., America Online Inc., board meeting, Financial Times, Carl Icahn, blog, Internet access
LinkedIn looking for a suitor, maybe
News There is speculation that a big name prospective buyer is looking to acquire business social network LinkedIn.
Tags: Networking, Acquisitions, Plaxo Inc., Digg, social networking, Newsday, co-founder, board meeting, network, LinkedIn
Billionaire dumps Yahoo stake
News Frustrated with the Microhoo saga, corporate raider T. Boone Pickens has sold his entire stake of 10 million shares in the Internet pioneer, according to reports.
Tags: Mergers, Acquisitions, Search, Internet advertising, Microsoft Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Stock, San Francisco Chronicle, board meeting, Carl Icahn
ICANN to vote on internationalized domain names
News An ICANN voting session on Thursday could see internationalized domain names, trademark domain extensions and .xxx become a reality.
Tags: Domain names, Web sites, Domain Name, Domain Extension, ICANN, Microsoft .NET, board meeting, Web Address, Internationalized Domain Name, president
Source: Yahoo-Microsoft deal unlikely this week
News Although Yahoo and Microsoft have continued to talk, any search tie-up is unlikely to come this week, according to a source.
Tags: Search, Mergers, Steve Ballmer, Yahoo! Inc., CEO, board meeting, partnership, Silicon Valley, CNET Networks Inc., Wall Street Journal
US regulator eyes Apple-Google board relationship
News Apple and Google share two board members, a cozy relationship that has reportedly prompted the Federal Trade Commission to take a closer look at the antitrust implications.
Tags: Antitrust, Apple Inc., Google Inc., FTC, CEO, board meeting, Eric Schmidt, Antitrust, board, Google Book Search
Yahoo CEO still breaking down silos
News Carol Bartz says she is still trying to reshape the company's organizational culture, which was characterized by internal squabbles.
Tags: Search, Conference, Cisco Systems Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Carol Bartz, CEO, board meeting, Jerry Yang, U.S., California
Report: New Yahoo board to meet next week
News New directors--Carl Icahn included--will meet Monday and Tuesday with likely topics being opposition to Google and Yahoo's proposed ad deal, The Wall Street Journal says.
Tags: Legal, Search, Internet advertising, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Internet Search Advertising, phone, board meeting, Carl Icahn, partnership
Report: Apple's Jobs maintained stock-option ignorance
News Apple CEO Steve Jobs told the SEC in a 2008 deposition that he had no idea Apple lawyers had falsified documents nor did he understand the accounting implications of backdating.
Tags: Stock options and grants, Corporate law, Apple Inc., Backdating, CFO, stock-option backdating, Stock, Stock options and grants, job, SEC
Satyam suitors expected 'within a week'
News Outsourcing giant Satyam could soon be snapped up by competitors or lose out to them as competitors are prospecting their clients in this times of uncertainty.
Tags: IT outsourcing, Outsourcing, Acquisitions, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., Wipro Technologies, David Mitchell, liquidity, National Outsourcing Association, NOA, Bombay
Korea Telecom to sell 4% of SK Telecom shares
News Korea Telecom Corp, the nation's largest fixed-line operator, will sell 4 percent of SK Telecom Co shares to raise money for its high-speed Internet, wireless and other businesses.
Yamaha writes off CD-RW venture
News Citing escalating competition and declining prices, Japanese audio equipment maker Yamaha has thrown in the towel on its rewritable CD drive operations.
