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Why air taxis failed to take off [Meltdowns]

A classic tech dream: Reinvent every facet of an existing business, from top to bottom. The personal computer industry was built on the impossible dream that there would one day be a computer on every desk — an example which inspires countless attempts to reengineer the virtual world. Most ...

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Sirens at Yahoo [Yahoo]

Sirens greeted Forbes reporter Brian Caulfield when he visited Yahoo's campus in search of quotable employees after CEO Jerry Yang announce was stepping down: "Paramedics, police and a fire truck responded after a Yahoo employee suffered a seizure, a company security guard said. It's unclear...

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mew [Commenter Of The Day]

For better or worse, Yahoo now doesn't have a leader. At least the market thinks that's a good thing and Yahoo shareholders got rewarded with a $1.3 billion bump. Today's featured commenter, mew, has a different idea about Jerry Yang leaving: Call it a brown paper bag, convenience store hold-up ...

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Exit, stage left [Caption Contest]

Now that he's stepping down as Yahoo's CEO, will Jerry Yang ever take a public stage again, as he did at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last January? Suggest an appropriately elegiacal caption in the comments; the best will become the post's new headline. Yesterday's winner: ShreeCeto...

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Google makes it easy to rip off Life Magazine [Blogging For Dollars]

Pictures from Life's centuries-old archives will now be available as part of Google Image Search. The images will be hosted on Google servers, however they carry no clear usage instructions. At least it's now easier for bloggers to spice up their posts with something that has a bit more gravitas...

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October e-commerce up a humiliating 1 percent [Stats]

The accompanying chart from TechFlash says it all: Online sales just aren't growing anymore. October's 1 percent growth over October 2007 is the worst performance measured by ComScore since they began tracking stats in 2001. TechFlash quotes Gian Fulgoni, chairman of the research firm: "We c...

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