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Microsoft Corp. has yet to convince Yahoo Inc. to agree to a friendly takeover, but the software company is already hiring lobbyists to help it convince regulators to let the deal — hostile if it has to be — go through.
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Yahoo Inc.’s directors meet Friday to discuss alternatives to a Microsoft Corp. takeover, with many insiders still seeing a Microsoft deal — without the participation of News Corp. — as the most likely outcome.
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Apple Inc. this week began testing Mac OS X 10.5.3 Update, a third maintenance and security update to its relatively new Leopard operating system that already bundles over 75 bug fixes and code corrections.
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Research Project to Enhance Existing OpenSolaris Security Functionality
SANTA CLARA, CA March 13, 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) and the United States’ National Security Agency (NSA) today announced an agreement to jointly work within the OpenSolaris community to research and to develop security enhancements to complement existing OpenSolaris security mechanisms. Both Sun and the NSA will work with the OpenSolaris …

SCHAUMBURG, Ill. – March 12, 2008 – Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) through Motorola Ventures, its strategic venture capital arm, announced today it has made a strategic investment in INVIDI Technologies Corporation, a leader in advanced addressable advertising for the television industry. Financial terms of the investment were not disclosed.
INVIDI’s proprietary technology delivers addressable commercial messages tailored to the television viewer. …

San Diego, California, March 6, 2008 – DivX, Inc. (NASDAQ: DIVX), a digital media company, today announced an agreement with Hauppauge Digital, Inc. (NASDAQ:HAUP) to release a device based on the DivX Connected™ platform. DivX Connected is an open platform that can be easily embedded into a wide variety of consumer electronics devices from different manufacturers, enabling consumers to deliver …