4th May 2008 Archive

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• Microsoft walks away from Yahoo!

  Yahoo! Google strategem pays no dividends

  Microsoft today abandoned its attempt to buy Yahoo!, after a short weekend of negotiations in which it raised its $44.6bn offer by $5bn. Microsoft thinks the deal still makes sense, if not at the price - another $5bn - that the Yahoo! board wants. But it won't go hostile - as Yahoo! would engage in scorched earth tactics, it …

  Financial News 4 May 00:59

• Added green burden could ground flying cars for good

  Analysis Get off my flying car, hippies!

  Regular readers of the Reg will be familiar with the many obstacles that lie between us and our long-desired flying cars. Unfortunately, rather than any boxes being ticked off on the checklist, it rather appears as though yet another has been added. More and more, people seem to expect their already difficult enough flying car …

  Space 4 May 07:02