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Ballmer on Newspapers: Wrong Again

I am hardcopy subscriber to 2 papers, I am 50, see very few people under 35 buying newspapers regularly which is sad as need support for local coverage or all we will get is national news. Lets face it, many 20 somethings spend more time of Facebook than reading any news from any sources.

Why Jerry Yang Needs To Drive a Beer Truck

great article. MSFT is not coming back to the table unless Yang bows his head and accepts 31 and retires after merger . He would need to go to enable a new MSFT/YHOO culture at the new company.

On Yahoo/ Microsoft: Jerry Yang Should Be Fired

This is the unfortunate outcome of when a founder can not separate out his interests from the interests of a public company. Yang did not really want to sell at all and used the high price demand to hide this fact. If he took all stock you could look at it as a win-win and not so much a buyout as a merger and YHOO would still be there , such part of a new organizationial structure. If MSFT went to 42 in a year, then YHOO shareholders received 42 if could just wait and hold converted shares.