Despite a hectic past two months fighting off a proxy battle with investor Carl Icahn, Yahoo is rumored to be sending out buyout feelers for social-networks company Demand Media.

Yahoo’s Hilary Schneider, who was recently promoted to oversee the company’s U.S. go-to market operations, traveled to Demand …

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The SC-MX20 will be available in August for $279.99.

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Each month seems to bring a new YouTube-centric digital camcorder and July is no exception: Samsung has announced the SC-MX20, a $279.99 model that’s the successor to the SC-MX10. It’ll arrive in stores in August …

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The Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000.B spreads 1TB of capacity over only three platters.

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Hitachi was first to hit the terabyte mark when it announced the 1TB Deskstar 7K1000 hard drive in January 2007. Fast forward a year and a half, and the company is back with not a …

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Updated at 2:20 p.m. PDT, with details about an opinion piece by Yahoo board member Gary Wilson in The Wall Street Journal.

After taking a one-two punch from investor activist Carl Icahn and Microsoft on Monday, Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang threw a few punches of his own in …

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Updated at 2:20 p.m. PDT, with details about an view piece by Yahoo board member Gary Wilson in The Wall Street Journal.

After taking a one-two punch from investor activist Carl Icahn and Microsoft on Monday, Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang threw a few punches of his own in …

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Yahoo’s third largest investor offered up some advice Tuesday to dissident shareholder Carl Icahn on what it may take to swing investor votes his way in a proxy fight, according to a Reuters report.

Legg Mason portfolio manager Bill Miller had this observation to offer to Reuters, when queried …

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Open-source Web conferencing provider Dimdim has raised $6 million in Series B funding, the company is set to announce on Wednesday.

The funding round, which was led by current investors Index Ventures, Nexus India Capital, and Draper Richards, will enable Dimdim to introduce enhancements to the free service and expand …

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The largest bank in the United States has officially ignored the second most popular Web browser–until recently.

A tipster for Networkworld.com pointed out recently that Bank of America’s Web site did not list the Mozilla Foundation’s Firefox as a “supported browser,” even though Firefox now commands almost …

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The largest bank in the United States has officially ignored the second most popular Web browser–until recently.

A tipster for Networkworld.com pointed out recently that Bank of America’s Web site did not list the Mozilla Foundation’s Firefox as a “supported browser,” even though Firefox now commands almost …

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