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By Brian Womack and Ian King   From bloomberg.com Nov. 18 (Bloomberg) — Yahoo! Inc. is more likely than ever to be acquired by Microsoft Corp. after Yahoo Chief Executive Officer Jerry Yang said he plans to step down, investors said. “The strategic necessity here is for this company to merge with Microsoft,” Larry Haverty, a [...]

Up to 25 States Could Lose 3,000 Ford-Related Jobs By MATTHEW DOLAN  From WSJ.com The debate over the job loss attached to the potential failure of Detroit’s Big Three auto makers took another turn as an internal document from Ford Motor Co. showed thousands of workers in every state could be at risk. The state-by-state [...]

Eastman Kodak Co., which has increasingly turned to its patent portfolio in search of profit, said it sued Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Co., accusing them of infringing Kodak patents in the design of camera phones. Kodak has reached licensing deals with most rival makers of digital cameras as well as most makers of [...]

Posted by Rafe Needleman  from news.cnet.com The new voice-activated Google Mobile app for the iPhone is finally here. Whatever the reason for the delay, it was worth the wait. The search app knows when you bring the phone to your face to speak into it. It beeps, you talk, and it executes a Google search [...]

Intel’s next-generation microarchitecture has arrived. Officially. Intel made the debut of the Core i7 processor official on Monday afternoon, launching the processor at an event in San Francisco. PC makers, including Dell and Gateway, quickly followed suit with announcements. “The Core i7 processor speeds video editing (and) immersive games…by up to 40 percent without increasing [...]

By Scott Morrison Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES SAN FRANCISCO -(Dow Jones)- Embattled Yahoo Inc. (YHOO) Chief Executive Jerry Yang has agreed to give up his position, leaving the struggling Internet giant without a clear leader and increasing the possibility an acquirer might seek to buy it. Yahoo, which earlier this year was the target of [...]

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By Barrett Sheridan | From the magazine issue dated Nov 14, 2008 The International Monetary Fund has roared back from irrelevancy, with a central role in the fight against the global credit contagion. Only poor debtor nations have doubts, because once again, the IMF is urging budget austerity on some borrowers, even as rich nations [...]

By Sue Mueller & David Liu from  foodconsumer.org Nov 15, 2008 – 2:13:45 PM Why HIV vaccine fails Dr. A. White of Duke University medical Center A published an article in the Sep 2, 2008 issue of Medical Hypotheses suggests that Merck’s V520 is destined to fail to prevent HIV infection in a recent trial. [...]