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Could Alibaba's Buyout Make Jack Ma the Next Yahoo CEO?

The Alibaba Group has indicated that they have strong interest in acquiring Yahoo, Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO). However, this is something that even Jack Ma, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Alibaba Group, understands will be complicated.

Five Features That iPhone 5 Will Not Have

Apple to release new iPhone on Oct.4
With only a day remaining for Apple's eagerly anticipated iPhone event, rumors over what the company will and will not include in its new phone, which is believed to be the iPhone5, continues to grow.
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Blackberry Playbook Not Abandoned ... Yet

Research in Motion rebuffed speculation that it was following HP's footsteps in abandoning its poor performing Playbook tablet, but the move highlights its difficulties penetrating Apple's dominant market position.
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Reaching Out: Tech Companies Tapping African-Americans

Private African-American businesses, especially in areas with large black populations like the greater Washington, D.C., area and Los Angeles have done well, winning major federal contracts for critical IT projects. The important thing is not to be the CEO of Xerox, eAccess founder John W. Templeton told IBTimes. The important thing is to be the one who creates the next imaging device.
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Microsoft Unveils Windows Phone 7.5 Mango

Microsoft has begun to roll out updates for its Windows Phone 7.5 Mango, the latest set of software upgrades, with over 500 changes, making it the biggest update yet for the mobile platform.
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Yahoo: Breaking Up Is Easy To Do

The long-beleaguered search engine company Yahoo! Inc. would probably be better off selling off pieces of itself rather than submit to a takeover in whole, given that the separate segments of the firm probably have more value than the sum of the individual parts. However, any such potential transaction won’t happen overnight.
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Kodak Shares Plummet: Are Patent Values Discounted?

Shares of Eastman Kodak plunged as much as 24 percent Monday on fears the photography giant may be running out of cash -- yet intellectual property investment banks such as MDB Capital of San Diego, Calif., have estimated the Kodak patents could be valued around $2 billion.

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