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May 5th, 2008

Is It Really Over? Microsoft Pulls Yahoo Offer

This is one that I really thought would happen. I didn’t think it would happen easily or exactly quickly, but I thought it would eventually get approved and move forward.
Part of me thinks this could still be in the overall strategy though. The YHOO stock price has already dropped to $24 from it’s 52-week […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

April 14th, 2007

Microsoft Misses DoubleClick

Microsoft missed the opportunity to purchase DoubleClick, which I had written about before. Lo and behold, look who bought them instead, good ol’ Google! “Bought” might be using the word a little lightly too, more like Google came in, opened up the war chest coffers and slammed the money bags down on the board room table […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

March 29th, 2007

Microsoft Clicks on DoubleClick Opportunity

A little bit of rumbling in the acquisitions department at Microsoft today. Or at least we can expect there to be with recent news stories about Microsoft putting its eyes on online advertising company DoubleClick. Could this be what Microsoft needs to help it put up a better fight against Google’s AdSense and Yahoo’s online advertising revenue streams?
The DoubleClick […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

February 27th, 2007

Keep Your Favorites Alphabetically Ordered

It seems I’ve been immersed in “Favorite” frustration today. I was recently strong-armed into upgrading my Yahoo! Toolbar and the wonderfully efficient arrangement of favorite websites I had been using for quite awhile.
Now I’ve begun looking at other options for managing my internet favorites. I’m nowhere close to relying on the bookmarks being stored locally […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

July 11th, 2006

Building a Better Browser (for Pocket PC)

I’m really enjoying having the web on my PPC-6700. I’ve discovered that Gmail and Bloglines works great with the device.
The reason they work so great? Because both sites recognize I’m connecting with a mobile device and adjust their display to work with the smaller screen size and functionality of the device itself.
I’d still like to […]

By Jason Bean -- 2 comments

June 8th, 2006

IE7 Beta 3

For anyone interested, looks like there’s going to be another beta version release of 3 sometime this summer. I’m not really interested really. Unless they shrink the UI along the top, it just doesn’t work for me. I’ve become greatly attached to Firefox and am more than happy with it, and if I want tabs […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

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