Topic: wall street

The Wall Street Journal has a great summary of the breakdown of the initial Yahoo Microsoft merger talks a few months ago, complete with something of a play by play in how corporate strategies on both sides ...failed. My read is that the personal mix of Yang and Ballmer was probably all wrong for this, though I still think that part of Yang and Yahoo board's idea was to play foolishly hard to...

Bret Stephens in The Wall Street Journal: If even slight global cooling remains evidence of global warming, what isn't evidence of global warming? What we have here is a nonfalsifiable hypothesis, logically indistinguishable from claims for the existence of God. This doesn't mean God doesn't exist, or that global warming isn't happening. It does mean it isn't science. So let's stop fussing...

The Wall Street Journal says Google's open platform, Android, won't arrive on handsets until the fourth quarter. But Om Malik and Dana Blankenhorn at ZDNet say it's the carriers that have delayed Google's Android launch. T-Mobile is sucking all the oxygen out of the room with its demands for proprietary advantages in the phone it will launch in the fourth quarter. Sprint can't decide...

The Orlando Sentinel debuted its redesign this morning. Charles Apple's got images and thoughts. The Wall Street Journal weighs in with a piece in Monday's edition. (Tip: if you're not a WSJ subscriber, go through Digg). Past experience shows...