This week at Yahoo's annual Product Runway event, they offered up several announcements, one of which was a new digital newsstand for tablets and smartphones called Livestand. This product will come in the form of an application that will work on several device platforms and will bring content from publishers together with Yahoo's news sites in a magazine format. It's made with HTML5, and will include over 100 titles right out of the box, this very nearly having a chance at not reminding us that the big news with Yahoo still remains their recent dealings with being sold to a larger company.
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Hulu sale cancelled altogether
For those of you following the sale of Hulu - oh wait, you didn't know Hulu was for sale? Well it was, not it isn't. Follow us for a minute or two as we run down the path from original sale to bidders to bidders dropping out to Hulu just saying "fine, forget about it, I'll just keep to myself!" It's all very dramatic. It all started back in June when Hulu was rumored to be putting themselves up for sale with Yahoo! tipped as a bidder.
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Microsoft executive tips Yahoo bid
Not one day after it was reported that Yahoo! and ABC News would be partnering for news online, Microsoft is being tipped as entering bidding for Yahoo! in the near future. This information comes less than a month after our last report that Microsoft was, again, aiming for a bid on Yahoo!, this still not the first time these giants were to collide. All the way back in 2007, Microsoft was thought to be aiming for the same goal and again in 2008 the story persisted. Will Microsoft ever ACTUALLY purchase Yahoo!, or is this a legend that'll never ever prove itself to be true?
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Yahoo and ABC News partner for news and information online
Yahoo is taking a beating on the search market today with its traffic falling and CEO drama ongoing. Last month Yahoo fired its CEO Carol Bartz, who was vocal about how Yahoo treated her and eventually left the Yahoo board with $14 million in hand as a severance package. Yahoo is said to be considering purchase offers as well and one of the users is said to be Microsoft.
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Hulu sale could fall through after low-ball bids amidst other issues
The Hulu sale may be at risk amidst recent developments, including low-ball bids, a lack of commitment to sell by Hulu's owners, and digital rights complications. The premium online video service is a joint venture between content providers Fox, Disney, and NBC Universal and has so far seen interest from Yahoo, Google, Amazon, DirecTV, and Dish Network among others.
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Toshiba 55-inch TL515 Series Natural 3D TV Hands-on [Video]
The same company that brought you the world’s first consumer-targeted 55-inch glasses-free 3D display, Toshiba, now brings you the TL series value-minded 3D Smart TV. While this television does require that you wear the lovely 3D glasses if you’re going to get a perfectly 3D look at them, this television is out in several sizes (32-inches up to 55-inches) and isn’t going to blast the goodness out of your wallet – and it’s got built-in Wi-fi connectivity so you can run all the streaming apps you could ever desire.
Microsoft considering Yahoo! bid
Stockholders today are speaking about several things when it comes to big internet-born companies, the biggest news here being Microsoft's possible future purchase of Yahoo! It seems that as Yahoo!'s former chief exec Carol Bartz exits and their board hires several banks (reportedly) to help them decide what to do with the company, like sell it, Microsoft is apparently speaking internally about picking up the group for a pretty penny. On the other hand, AOL appears to be a less than appealing choice for a purchase than Yahoo! as the source for this story speaks about below.
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Bartz abandons Yahoo! board clutching $14m payout
Ousted Yahoo! chief exec Carol Bartz has stepped down from the company board, taking what's believed to be a $14m severance package with her. Bartz had originally intended to remain on the board, but was seemingly persuaded to do otherwise, The Guardian reports, with the compensation amount calculated by the WSJ's Amir Efrati. The decision follows Bartz's expletive-packed roasting of Yahoo! management, in which she accused chairman Roy Bostock of cowardice in hiding behind a lawyer's prepared statement.
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Bartz: Yahoo! board “f*#ked me over”
Former Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz has struck out at the company's board, saying that "these people f*cked me over" and revealing that she bluntly challenged chairman Roy Bostock when he fired her over the phone. The ousted chief exec asked Bostock "why don't you have the balls to tell me yourself," she said in interview with Fortune, after he reportedly read a prepared statement from the Yahoo! legal team rather than tell her in his own words.
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Yahoo! “open” to sale tips insider
Yahoo! is "open to selling itself" a company insider has confirmed, suggesting the beleaguered search and email giant isn't relying solely on "industry-leading innovation," as board chairman Roy Bostock claimed, to reverse the decline. As well as sacking CEO Carol Bartz, Yahoo! is now in effect putting itself up for sale, an insider tells the WSJ.
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Yahoo! sacks CEO Bartz over phone
Yahoo! has fired little-loved CEO Carol Bartz, temporarily replacing the former exec with CFO Timothy Morse. While board chairman Roy Bostock thanks Bartz "for her service to Yahoo! during a critical time of transition in the Company's history," an email the ousted CEO sent to her former staff, leaked to AllThingsD, reveals that she was "fired over the phone."
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SoftBank 007SH KT Hello Kitty Android Gingerbread Phone For The Win
Welcome to the greatest Android device on the market today. I'm only half joking, as the specs on this very gaudy looking device are certainly nothing to scoff at, and it boasts the very strange accomplishment of being the second clamshell device running Android 2.3 Gingerbread. The first was of course the AQUOS PHONE THE HYBRID 007SH, essentially the same basic components this device is built on. Yesterday we got a glimpse of the Yahoo! Android phone from Sharp AQUOS, today we get the next rebranded handset in the Hello Kitty Android flip phone. Is this just a Japanese fad, or are cross-brand re-releases of Android devices on the horizon?
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