SearchBiz: Google’s Balancing Act, Mr. Schmidt Goes To Washington (?), Yahoo’s Next CEO, Autonomy Jumps The Highway, ... (Search Engine Land) There’s lots of news today and from over the US holiday weekend. Much of it concerns Yahoo and Google, as it often does in this column. The big buzz generated over the weekend was from the UK’s Times Online report that there was a tentative deal reached between Yahoo and Microsoft to buy the former’s search business for $20 billion. us.rd.yahoo.com
Green Obama’s official limo is a gas guzzler (Times Online) On the campaign trail, Barack Obama promised to get a million plug-in hybrid cars on the road by 2015. His own new presidential limousine will be far from green, however. us.rd.yahoo.com
(AFX UK Focus) 2008-11-18 10:13 Yahoo seen unlikely to sell Alibaba stake after Yang (Interactive Investor) By Doug Young us.rd.yahoo.com
NO BOUQUETS FOR PANSY (Financial Mail) By Rob Rose For the first time in recent memory, a director this week came perilously close to being voted off the board of a Top-40 JSE listed company for playing truant from board meetings. The flashpoint was at Bidvest, where Pansy T... us.rd.yahoo.com
searchMuze 2.0 Launches in UK and Europe (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance) Muze Inc., the only independent provider of entertainment information products and discovery services, today announced the launch of searchMuze 2.0, its powerful media information search solution. us.rd.yahoo.com
Top Scoops (Scoop.co.nz) Looking over the seven page questionnaire that the Obama organization has for prospective appointees, several thoughts occurred: us.rd.yahoo.com
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