The new millennium was the year Microsoft was ordered to bifurcate, dot-coms tanked on Wall Street, WorldCom's Bernie Ebbers saw his merger mania capped and Napster scared the recording industry nearly to death. 2000 was a cascading waterfall of events that ended any doubts about the Net's ability to change the way we think, learn, play and do business.
Microsoft last week launched a hostile US$44.6bn takeover bid to buy Web giant Yahoo. If the deal goes ahead it will be the latest in a line of multibillion-dollar mergers and acquisitions the tech sector has witnessed in recent years.
The troubled Web giant used to be known for its innovative ways. To find a way to a brighter future, it could benefit from looking at its past.
Yahoo's face-off with France over Nazi paraphernalia took its latest twist Monday, with a federal appeals court reversing an earlier decision that found that the First Amendment protected the Web portal from legal action over the issue in the United States.
A divided federal appeals court on Thursday ducked the question of whether a French court order censoring Nazi-related materials can apply to Yahoo's US-based Web site.
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Quietly, over the past two years, open-source software has made an enormous difference in the way businesses operate, smart companies are finding ways to use open source.
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