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  If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Watch Shelly’s commentary on VERIZON’s (NYSE: VZ) decision to block access to the Usenet hierarchy. Tiger Wood’s helped NBC (NYSE: GE) receive the highest overnight ratings for the US Open in six years. The golfer, whose quest for the US Continue Reading →

  If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. Watch Shelly’s commentary on VIACOM’s (NYSE: VIA-B) decision to add shows to HULU, an NBC (NYSE: GE) – FOX (NYSE: NWS) joint venture. VERIZON (NYSE: VZ), TIME WARNER CABLE (NYSE: TWC) and SPRINT NEXTEL (NYSE: S) agreed to implement systems Continue Reading →

  If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube Carl Icahn invokes Ian Fleming and doomsday in a letter to YAHOO (NASD: YHOO). Watch Shelly’s commentary to hear the latest on Icahn’s quest to get the Microsoft-Yahoo deal done. Advertisers are abuzz about the possibilities of APPLE’s (NASD: AAPL) Continue Reading →

  If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube YAHOO Chairman ROY BOSTOCK sent CARL ICAHN a letter Thursday that said Icahn’s perspective on the botched MICROSOFT deal “reflects a significant misunderstanding of the facts about the Microsoft proposal.” However, Bostock reiterated that Yahoo remained open to a deal Continue Reading →

  If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube CARL ICAHN is launching a proxy contest to replace YAHOO’s board of directors. Icahn plans to nominate 10 directors including former Viacom Inc. Chief Executive FRANK BIONDI. Icahn’s board will push to reopen negotiations with MICROSOFT, however, sources say Icahn Continue Reading →

  If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube CARL ICAHN has purchased nearly 50 million shares of YAHOO since MICROSOFT withdrew its bid for the search company. Ichan now owns approximately 3.5% of Yahoo’s shares and is considering launching a proxy contest. Yahoo’s stock is up 5% since Continue Reading →

How fast was the wireless network on the bridge of the Starship Enterprise? Its mission was to, “boldly go where no one had gone before.” And to do that, Gene Roddenberry imagined a space vehicle the size of a small city with a very powerful computer network and a serious wireless broadband cloud. It may Continue Reading →

  If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube MICROSOFT informally approached FACEBOOK about a possible merger. A meeting with the social networking site comes just days after Microsoft backed away from its bid to secure YAHOO. Like the failed Yahoo bid, a merger with Facebook would seriously improve Continue Reading →

  If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. SPRINT, COMCAST, GOOGLE, TIME WARNER and INTEL will team to invest in WIMAX. The unlikely alliance is set to invest $3.2 billion in WiMax, a wireless broadband technology that is likely to supercede 3G in a few years. If the Continue Reading →

                   If you are having trouble viewing our video player, check out MediaBytes on YouTube. YAHOO’s stock plunged nearly 15% Monday. Major shareholders are furious with CEO Jerry Yang, whom they believe was bias against selling the company he co-founded in 1995. With majority stockholders angry and Yang still open to a deal with Microsoft, Continue Reading →