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"Yahoo Inc. will introduce a tool for Web developers Thursday that is designed to expand the scale of its struggling search business and help create new competitors to Google Inc. The company said the free tool will allow developers to build customized search services based...
Air for Sale:Canadian Government Sells it $3.7 billion!
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Good news for last minute filers, due to huge traffic volume to the Canada Revenue Agency website, you've got until midnight on Tuesday, May 6th to get your taxes filed online, that is, assuming you don't owe money...Fall in classified revenue clobbers Gannett
Gannett's, publisher of USA Today and many other newspapers is seeing their stock price and revenues continue to decline."Eeesh. Profits for Gannett (GCI),the nation's biggest newspaper company, dove 9%, the company announced Monday morning. Classified revenue -- thanks...Apple reports record results, sells more than 2m Macs
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Like a watchdog watching itself, The New York Times just published an article on its own losses this quarter. Is the downturn a function of the weak economy, or is the widespread shift to online media the...AMD to Sack 10% of Employees
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. saidit is cutting about 10% of its work force, or about 1,650 jobs, andwarned that weaker-than-expected sales hurt results in its recentquarter."AMD, locked in a battle with Intel Corp. over chips known as microprocessors, said it expects...
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