some banks are still hiding the bad debt in the account book. fannie and freddie still doesn't need to fulfill the SEC filling. the real fix will not happen in 2008.
Latest news: with all its multimedia capabilities, observers have expected Apple's iPhone to have Flash capability. But Apple CEO Steve Jobs says the current Flash player is not ready for the iPhone.
a BW article, dated May 4, 2007, talked about "Microsoft + Yahoo = ?" - it was the first time report about the potential buy-out. Microsoft was feeling increasing pressure to compete with Google (GOOG), which planned to beef up its portfolio with a $3.1 billion purchase of online advertising company DoubleClick. Among bloggers on the Net, there is plenty of skepticism about a merger because of the size of the deal, the differences in culture, the abundance of executive egos, and the redundancies in technology. "If Microsoft buys Yahoo, Microsoft should immediately spin the Yahoo-MSN business out as a separate company," says Henry Blodget, the one-time analyst at Merrill Lynch (ML), who now writes the Internet Outsider blog. "If it doesn't, both Yahoo and MSN will die." (see BusinessWeek.com, 5/4/07, "Yahoo, MSN "Will Die"").
Google is so dominant in online advertising probably helps Microsoft, which already is under federal oversight in the wake of an anti-trust settlement six years ago. So .. regarding anti-trust issue in online world, MS is in the weaker position, and the law will favor MS.
Guess the higher-end feature will not go into 450D series.
a BW article, dated May 4, 2007, talked about "Microsoft + Yahoo = ?" - it was the first time report about the potential buy-out. Microsoft was feeling increasing pressure to compete with Google (GOOG), which planned to beef up its portfolio with a $3.1 billion purchase of online advertising company DoubleClick. Among bloggers on the Net, there is plenty of skepticism about a merger because of the size of the deal, the differences in culture, the abundance of executive egos, and the redundancies in technology. "If Microsoft buys Yahoo, Microsoft should immediately spin the Yahoo-MSN business out as a separate company," says Henry Blodget, the one-time analyst at Merrill Lynch (ML), who now writes the Internet Outsider blog. "If it doesn't, both Yahoo and MSN will die." (see BusinessWeek.com, 5/4/07, "Yahoo, MSN "Will Die"").