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Seagate says to buy Maxtor for $1.9 billion in stock
Slashdot reports Seagate Technology on Wednesday said it would buy rival computer disk-drive maker Maxtor Corp. for $1.9 billion in stock. Under terms of the deal, which is expected to be completed in the second half of 2006, Maxtor shareholders will receive 0.37 shares of Seagate common stock for each Maxtor share they own. Seagate… Continue reading Seagate says to buy Maxtor for $1.9 billion in stock
Update of the Best Practices document and Scope document
Dominique Hazael-Massieux from the W3C writes After a very productive face to face meeting in Cambridge, Massachussets, hosted by France Telecom, the Working Group has made enough progress in its main document to publish an updated Working Draft of the Mobile Web Best Practices, featuring quite a few changes: * a clean up of the… Continue reading Update of the Best Practices document and Scope document
Google Acquires 5% of AOL
Posted by ScuttleMonkey from Slashdot Google just acquired a 5% stake in AOL for $1 Billion, shutting Microsoft out of the deal.” Under this new agreement, among many other things, Google Talk will now interface with AOLs instant messenger according to the announcement on Google’s site. From the announcement: Google Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt… Continue reading Google Acquires 5% of AOL
Tantek joins the WaSP Steering Committee
From Tanteks Blog Tantek writes “A couple of months ago the WaSP invited me to join their Steering Committee. As readers know it’s been a very busy past couple of months, so it has taken me some time to carefully consider the offer and come to a decision. Effective today, I am publicly accepting the… Continue reading Tantek joins the WaSP Steering Committee