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RAWR! Microsoft Hungry!

Posted: Friday, February 1st, 2008 @ 5:05 pm in Gossip, News, Politics, Silicon Valley, Tech News | 5 Comments »

Today it was announced that Microsoft is offering to buy Yahoo for $44.6 Billion. I am not a financial analyst or highly trained in business, but when I read, “With Microsoft paying a full price for a broken business where there’s not accelerating organic growth, I can’t make that work at all. I […]

Will Yahoo Lay Off My Husband?

Posted: Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008 @ 4:23 pm in Gossip, News, Silicon Valley, Tech News | 2 Comments »

Rumors that Yahoo is gearing up to lay off employees that will number in the thousands have been circulating lately. Believe me, we’ve heard about it. Not only from friends and our RSS feeds, but also from Dave’s mom.

I even heard that an Indian newspaper reported there would be 14,000 Yahoos left without […]

Live Vicariously Through a Silicon Valley Wife

Posted: Friday, January 18th, 2008 @ 2:23 am in Gossip, News, Silicon Valley, Tech News | 2 Comments »

You may know about the MacWorld keynote, the address Steve Jobs gives about upcoming Apple releases and innovations. You may even know about the blame he placed on Flickr this year when his screen blacked out while demoing a new feature on Apple TV, but do you know all the gossip that ensued?