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5 reasons why Microsoft buying Skype makes sense

Microsoft's $8.5 billion purchase of Skype has prompted a lot of confused speculation, but Microsoft clearly spelled out... Read more

13 May, 2011

Yahoo! tuning out RealNetworks?

...of Microsoft's Windows Media Player. Up till now, Yahoo! Broadcast, formerly Broadcast.com, has offered its radio station affiliate partners the choice of streaming... Read more

5 January, 2000 by Jennifer Mack

Yahoo! and eBay talks reported dead

The Financial Times says merger talks between the online giants broke down over eBay's multiyear agreement with AOL Read more

15 March, 2000 by ZDNet

Broadcast.com exec buys $40m present - online

...just set a record of his own. Mark Cuban, co-founder of Broadcast.com, last week purchased a Gulfstream business jet over the Internet for... Read more

22 December, 1999 by ZDNet

Yahoo! to buy Broadcast.com for $5.7bn

...graphic-rich Web sites, Yahoo! Inc., Thursday will announce a merger with Broadcast.com, the Dallas company that has said it intended to be a... Read more

1 April, 1999 by ZDNet

VC backs challenger to Broadcast.com

...of Web broadcasting, a category that until now has been dominated by Broadcast.com (Nasdaq:BCST). "This is testimony that the RealNetworks and Broadcast.coms... Read more

18 February, 1999 by Matthew Broersma

Yahoo! buys broadcast.com

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1 April, 1999 by John Oates

Broadcast.com profits from Yahoo! link

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23 March, 1999 by silicon.com staff

In brief: Broadcast.com enjoys flotation

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21 July, 1998 by Polly Raymond

Is MP3 dying already?

...was the pronouncement of Mark Cuban, president of online multimedia aggregation site Broadcast.com at the opening of the South by Southwest Interactive Festival here... Read more

15 March, 1999 by Matthew Broersma
Tech luminaries bid Bill Gates adieu

Tech luminaries bid Bill Gates adieu

Technology insiders say their fond and not-so-fond farewells as Bill Gates steps down from full-time work at the software giant he founded Read more

26 June, 2008 by Holly Jackson and Ina Fried

Billionaire backs defendant in landmark P2P case

...before the US Supreme Court on Tuesday. Cuban, the entrepreneur who sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo for $5.7bn and who is now president of... Read more

29 March, 2005 by Steven Musil

Google not going to enter browser market

...0 as the conference would have it) -- Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos, Broadcast.com's Mark Cuban, Idealab's Bill Gross -- were here to give... Read more

6 October, 2004 by Stefanie Olsen

Billionaire backs new search tool

Broadcast.com founder and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban is backing a new... Read more

5 August, 2004 by John Borland

Lycos sports 'for sale' sign

...backed by dot-com bubble investor extraordinaire Mark Cuban, who sold his Broadcast.com start-up to Yahoo in 1999 for stock worth more than... Read more

28 April, 2004 by Jim Hu

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Jack Schofield

@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

20 minutes ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
apexwm

I would love to hear why Microsoft believes that "upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 pays for itself in a year, in increased productivity and...

1 hour ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
debsmk

I have just changed mine to white they said 3 to 5 days

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Atangana

I would like a job for me and do good to their tackiness vellent my help I will do my best to help you mercie for all

3 hours ago by Atangana on UK's 15-year-old World Excel champion offered £100k job
BrownieBoy

Well done to IDC for producing a report that says using XP is a waste of money. Only 11 years too late with it is all....

4 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Jack Schofield

@Burn-IT ...which doesn't mean it isn't true ;-) I'll be interested if you can find any properly-researched, independent data from any of the...

5 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Burn-IT

As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

6 hours ago by Burn-IT on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
mrbigdong

@620W, I mine 1 BTC/daily for cost of 1.7eur, they naysayers regurgitate the rubbish they read as usual

6 hours ago by mrbigdong on A minor Bitcoin miner injury?
Mike Denton

If the link to the next section existed that would be awesome.... Guess I have to ask uncle google where it is

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minzhu

Don't blame CEO, they want RIM win. RIM has strange culture and self distruct political environment. In RIM if a new hired person figure out...

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Thomas Gellhaus

I've been very pleased with Mageia 2. My review went up on Sunday. My only issue is that my particular wireless printer hasn't been detected on...

14 hours ago by Thomas Gellhaus via Facebook on Scorecard - Linux Mint 13 and Mageia 2
knapper

That we have :-) Retailers don't buy stuff to lie around in warehouses, particularly with fast moving technology products. If they didn't think...

21 hours ago by knapper on Windows Phone, Android take bite out of BlackBerry
JohneKerr

I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

22 hours ago by JohneKerr on Windows Phone, Android take bite out of BlackBerry
Iain Sutherland

I received the notification of Mageia 2 being released on Saturday, was already running Mageia 1. After running the installation X came back up...

23 hours ago by Iain Sutherland via Facebook on Scorecard - Linux Mint 13 and Mageia 2
SoapyTablet

If ZTE have been selling below cost with the ZTE Blade / Orange San Francisco then given the current high street price of the Nokia Lumia 710, you...

1 day ago by SoapyTablet on Huawei, ZTE face EU 'illegal state subsidies' probe
Burn-IT

Yes it is basically down to "nobody in control understands IT, is willing to admit it, or allow decisions to be delegated". Lets get someone in who...

1 day ago by Burn-IT on 6 million wasted licences and £1,200 PCs: welcome to government IT
pjc158

So let me get this straight just because a consultant has oberved that mobile companies who get in trouble never recover, well we all might as well...

1 day ago by pjc158 on RIM to lay off 2,000 on 1 June, says report
Jake Rayson

@191706> *their* own Mac Thank you for picking up the errant spelling :) @apexwm > Mac OS X for Intel machines is supposed to run in VirtualBox...

1 day ago by Jake Rayson on xTreme Triple Booting: Linux, Mac & Windows
archerthom

I'm imagining Batman-style sonar imaging that will detect the cat and Lego bricks in the dark - I'm going to be disappointed aren't I?

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unlockworldwide

May I quote Horace Dediu, who runs the consultancy Asmyco who has repeatedly observed that mobile phone companies that fall into loss – even once...

1 day ago by unlockworldwide on RIM to lay off 2,000 on 1 June, says report