| Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion
Yahoo, in a statement, said its board will carefully evaluate Microsoft's proposal, which it described as unsolicited. Microsoft expects the market for online advertising to almost double in size over the next three years, from $40 billion in 2007 to $80 billion by 2010. A merger will allow it to realize economies of scale and reduce capital costs as it addresses this market, it said. “The combination of these two great teams would enable us to jointly deliver a broad range of new experiences to our customers that neither of us would have achieved on our own," said Ray Ozzie, chief software architect at Microsoft, in a statement. Microsoft expects to cut costs by $1 billion a year by realizing synergies with Yahoo in four areas: obtaining economies of scale as its audience increases; combining its research and development efforts with Yahoo's to innovate faster; eliminating operational redundancy to cut costs, and pooling expertise to innovate in video and mobile.
To Hell With the Chief!
It's true that Midwesterners have a great deal of just plain common sense and Madhoosier is very eloquent as well. Obama fills the bill for me and, as a great-grandmother offers hope and confidence that the next generations will restore the American Dream. Thanks all! .
Nursing home violence
No counselling for new residents to help them deal with the grief and loss that accompanies the relocation to a nursing home. It is deplorable that they room troubled seniors with others. Sadly, there comes a point for even the most self sufficient family when they are forced to place a loved one in care. When that time comes they should get care on par or better than what we provide for inmates. For all our seniors have given us, we should be providing decent, sufficient care for their final years. As a society, we owe them!!! For those that think they will have enough money to get great care for themselves, please think on the current state of the medical system. Even with the best plans in place, insufficient staff and lack of beds are having an impact right now on patient care.
Police Commissioner rejects call to resign
We're not going to be in the business of imposing some sort of media blackout on the reporting of terrorism cases." Mr Rudd expressed full confidence in Mr Keelty: "The Government has its own view and the Government's view is that the media should abide by the laws of the land and I err ... on the side of the media giving full and frank coverage." O'Gorman calls for Keelty's head Australian Council for Civil Liberties president Terry O'Gorman said last night Mr Keelty was unfit to remain as commissioner and should quit. "He should find another job. If he doesn't, the Government should find another job for him," Mr O'Gorman said. "His speech shows he just doesn't get it - the man isn't in the real world because he's lost any sense of balance." Asked last night if he would consider resigning, Mr Keelty said through a spokesman he would not dignify such a question with a response.
Suave Tunes andWorldly Wise Musicians
Foreign nationals dont have much access to international culture here, he adds. Of course the Opera House puts on a lot of shows, but most of them are in Arabic. They can appreciate Yehia Khalil, but not so much Mohamed Mounir. Thats not to say we should abandon our Arab heritage and disregard masters like Sayed Darwish, but there has to be something for those who cannot grasp the language. .
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