Yahoo! Inc., the Internet company that snubbed a $44.6 billion bid from Microsoft Corp., reaffirmed its first-quarter and 2008 forecasts and laid out its case for rejecting the software maker. Cash flow may almost double in the next three years, and sales growth goals for 2009 and 2010 are higher than analysts estimate, Yahoo said in its most detailed argument since rejecting the deal more than a month ago. That potential deserves “a significant acquisition premium,” Yahoo said.

MySpace announced its launch in China Thursday, following months of speculation about the Rupert Murdoch-controlled social networking site’s plans for the nation’s 137 million Internet users. MySpace China introduced itself as a “locally owned, operated and managed company” in which News Corp-owned MySpace Inc was only one among several investors. 阅读全文——共1691字

Google the Most Powerful Global Brand Google has knocked Microsoft off the top spot and been named the most powerful global brand of 2007 in a recently published ranking. It’s the second year in a row a tech brand has beaten household names such as Coca-Cola, Marlboro and Toyota. 阅读全文——共1350字

Earth Day comes only once a year, but concern about the environment should should be an everyday occurrence. Do you know that many of your older gadgets are actually toxic? But do you also know that you can recycle them instead of throwing them out? Both public and private organizations want to recycle your old gear. I say let them! 阅读全文——共1126字

With Thursday’s approval from the Chicago Plan Commission, the design and site plan for the 2,000-foot Chicago Spire goes to the city zoning committee next week. “This is a wonderful project, and everyone is very enthused,” said Constance Buscemi, spokeswoman for the city’s planning department. 阅读全文——共1159字

Google Draws Privacy Complaint to FTC Three public-interest groups are expected to file a joint complaint on Friday with the Federal Trade Commission calling for an investigation into the potential threat to consumer privacy posed by Google’s planned acquisition of DoubleClick. The Washington-based Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), along with the Center for Digital Democracy (CDD) and the U.S. Public Interest Research Groups (U.S. PIRG), are asking the FTC to stop the $3.1 billion merger until the trade commission investigates Google’s data collection and storage practices, orders DoubleClick to sweep out its data storehouse and requires the search giant to offer a public plan for safeguarding consumer privacy.

MySpace.com has launched a beta of a news site it hopes will bring more advertising revenue to the popular social networking site. MySpace News is a hybrid between standard news-aggregation sites, such as Google News, and a news-rating site such as Digg Inc. Like Google and other news sites from portals such as Yahoo Inc. and AOL LLC, MySpace News brings in content from a variety of news outlets. But the site also has a Digg-like feature that lets MySpace users rate stories they see on the site, and share stories with other site users.

It does not matter what type of work you already do. You can be a mom that wants to stay at home or a full-time student. No matter what you have chosen to do in life, you can make some extra money in your spare time. Online surveys will give you that little something extra. For the mom at home, it will give you the extra spending money to take the kids on a fun day out. For the college student, it will give you the extra money to help with the cost of books and supplies. Online surveys can and will pay you the money that you deserve for your time and experience. 阅读全文——共1477字

My contract with Cingular is drawing to a close and my Treo 650 is feeling long in the tooth, so I’ve been prowling the shopping pages on Cingular.com. Lately, nestled between the GoPhones and the PDA/smart phones, I’ve noticed a new category: refurbished phones. Now, I’m the type of person who’s willing to pay for the latest and greatest when I get a new phone. But looking over Cingular’s list of refurbished handsets made me wonder. What exactly are refurbished phones? Who sells them? Are they really a good bargain? And in an era when carriers routinely offer great deals on new phones, when does it make sense to consider a refurbished model? 阅读全文——共5610字

Google Page Rank Update or prediction Many people are suggesting that google is currently updating the page rank of each site, this is what can be seen on the google toolbar and is basically a rating out of ten for each website. From reading some of the messages on the search engine forums, different people are reporting changes where as other people as of yet have seen no changes. It is reported that by the middle of July in 2006 this update should be visible on all data-centers, however with google you never can tell as they seem to like to keep people guessing. 阅读全文——共2573字

Yahoo Introduces New Payment Feature With eBay Yahoo Inc. said late Tuesday that it’s introducing a new feature in cooperation with Yahoo partner eBay Inc. Yahoo Chief Executive Officer Terry Semel, in a conference call with financial analysts Tuesday, described the new features as one that involves eBay’s PayPal online payments feature, and “provides merchants and advertisers a more streamlined process” for online payments. As an extension of the strategic relationship between Yahoo! and eBay, the two companies are partnering to improve the online shopping experience for consumers. Starting April 17, Yahoo’s sponsored search results will feature a blue shopping cart icon linking to merchants that accept PayPal Express Checkout.