The Fight for Yahoo: Five Scenarios
Staying single
When Microsoft started hunting Yahoo in February, many assumed that the software behemoth would bag the company swiftly and efficiently. Yahoo seemed to be classic weak Web prey, wobbling financially while rival Googl...
Gen-X: The Ignored Generation?
Jeff Gordinier in the ’90s, perfecting his bemused young man look.
Jeff Gordinier is tired of being force-fed the Beatles, the Summer of Love, Facebook and Britney Spears. He says being heard over the media din about boomers...
TV Home Shows Learn to Love the Bust
’Date My House’ host Bob Guiney with designer Nadia Geller
Americans have heard the bad news about the housing market from the press, their neighbors and their real estate agents. Now they’re hearing it from former Bachelor Bo...
Obama’s Bitter Lesson
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A man sits inside the “Ready to Work” Employment office and watches as U.S. Senator and Presidential Candidate Barack Obama arrives in Reading, Pennsylvania.
It’s hard ...
3D Comes to Web 2.0
A screen-grab of 3DVIA.com
The hosted services and communities of Web 2.0 already amount to an entirely
new form of communication. But now a new site called 3DVIA.com is taking the
social-networking concept to an...
Saving Burma
Cast adrift: Little is left of the submerged Kaw Hmu township, near Rangoon
There is only one major road leading to Naypyidaw. Nearly three years ago, when Burma’s new capital was carved out of scrubland, the country’s ruling mi...
Why Microsoft Is Desperate for Yahoo
Microsoft Corp Chairman Bill Gates
There are a ton of great jobs in the world, but running Microsoft? No
thanks. I’d rather run Iraq.
Microsoft is under assault in every direction, and losing the battle
on any nu...
