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By Mike Langberg, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Sep. 18--Hollywood is sending in the A-team -- Amazon and Apple -- on a  kind of mission impossible: persuade consumers to download movies online,  instead of buying or renting DVDs.   This might be the technology of the future.
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By By Bob Cuddy, The Tribune, San Luis Obispo, Calif.  Sep.
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I've known Bruce Steinberg since we met online, so long ago I don't remember. I'm guessing it might have been back when SCO was still a leading Unix company and Bruce was its VP of Marketing Communications. Or it might have been through Usenet, or some other pre-Web online service. read more
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By Dennis Rockstroh, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Sep. 19--If you haven't been faithfully checking out the Consumer Action blog (http:// blogs. mercurynews. com/ consumer   actionline), here are some of the things you missed.
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By Mary Anne Ostrom, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Feb. 13--Presidential holidays are taking on a whole new meaning in the Bay Area this month.
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Mike Arrington is doing a great job of laying out the options for Yahoo wrt Microsoft's offer to buy them out. He's written two pieces that helped put it together for me. Mike clearly has great sources in the investment banking community and among potential buyers of Yahoo, and is actively talking with them. He's got a business lawyer's mind and, as you know I'm sure, he's spent the last few years immersed in web applications.  Bottom-line: Yahoo's three choices are: 1. Tough it out alone. 2. Sell advertising rights to Google. 3. Accept Microsoft's offer.  Mike argues that option 1 would result in shareholder lawsuits and in the end would get Yahoo nowhere because they'd end up selling to Microsoft eventually. Option 2 would enable them to pay a major cash dividend to their shareholders, making up for the lost windfall coming from Microsoft's offer. Options 2 and 3 have the risk of being rejected by government regulators.  Now, as a member of Yahoo's developer community, and generally a respector of Yahoo (is that a word) -- I say take the deal. I don't think Yahoo has ever had leadership that has been up to navigating the treacherous waters of tech industry economics and politics. At least with the Microsoft acquisition they would get one -- Ray Ozzie. He's a guy you can sit across the table from and plot something out and he can deliver. I've had many good meetings with Yahoo people, but rarely have they resulted in action. From my own selfish point of view, Microsoft owning Yahoo might mean that Ray makes more trips to the Bay Area (figuratively) and when he sits down, we can talk about new open interfaces and developer programs for Yahoo properties. I've read most of the commentary on the Yahoo deal, and the other piece that made an impression was Mark Cuban's. He says that Yahoo should accept the Microsoft deal because it would give them the breathing room they need re Wall Street. He argues that the market has always allowed Microsoft to sink resources into developing markets, and that's exactly what Yahoo needs to become the organization that it has been trying to be. Instead, the market treats Yahoo as a comp to Google, but Yahoo doesn't have the economics of Google, so that's, long-term, a losing battle.  There's one more reason I think Yahoo should sell to Microsoft -- the fatigue of the people. The company has been wobbly too long. If they don't take the Microsoft offer it's going to be a long wobbly decline and the shareholders will be right to be angry. Here's their chance to get out, it's time, so just do it.
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By The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Feb. 19--Thes
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By Dean Takahashi, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  May 31--Attention Silicon Valley philanthropists: Here's a worthy cause for you.
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By Joe Gamm, The Oregonian, Portland, Ore.  Feb.
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By Frank Michael Russell, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Sep. 24--Here's a quick rundown of news you may have missed last week, culled from reports by our staff and wire services.
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By Adam Kaye, North County Times, Escondido, Calif.  Mar. 8--SOLANA BEACH, Calif.
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By Frank Michael Russell, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Feb. 4--Here are some quickly warmed-up news leftovers from last week, culled from reports by our staff and wire services.
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By Mark Schwanhausser, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Sep.
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By Therese Poletti, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Feb.
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By Michael P. Mayko, Connecticut Post, Bridgeport  Dec.
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By Frank Michael Russell, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Jun. 24--Here's some news you may have missed last week, based on staff and wire reports.
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Carole Leigh Hutton, the editor of The San Jose Mercury News was replaced in a top-level shake-up at the newspaper.