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Coldwell Banker became the first national real estate brand to develop a home search application for the revolutionary Microsoft Surface. The Coldwell Banker Home Search application allows you to search for properties, browse neighborhoods, amenities and more through the touchscreen interface
The Dow Jones industrial average shot upward a stunning 936 points — a record one-day point gain — to close at 9,387.61. By day’s end, investors had regained $1.2 trillion of the estimated $2.4 trillion in shareholder value wiped out last week, according to the Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 Composite Index, which represents nearly all stocks traded in America.
| Name | Price | Change | MktCap |
| Baidu BIDU | 266.05 | +52.30(24.47%) | 9.11B |
| News Corp. NWS | 9.91 | +1.45(17.14%) | 25.49B |
| Omniture OMTR | 12.78 | +1.64(14.72%) | 927.18M |
| Time Warner TWX | 10.13 | +0.94(10.23%) | 36.29B |
| Microsoft MSFT | 25.50 | +4.00(18.60%) | 232.82B |
| Yahoo! YHOO | 13.49 | +1.20(9.76%) | 18.69B |
| Google GOOG | 381.02 | +49.02(14.77%) | 119.81B |
Electronic forms can replace paper- and e-mail-based processes for more efficient processing of structured business data. Although sometimes lost amid broader SharePoint hype, the platform delivers solid capabilities in this area, especially for those customers who upgrade to the full MOSS platform, where SharePoint’s “Forms Services” obviate the need to install the Microsoft InfoPath client on every desktop.
Unlike some of the more complicated configurations required for content management and search in SharePoint, businesses can create basic forms and define associated routing with comparative ease. An administrator or developer creates forms using InfoPath, or via web-based interfaces for defining basic fields. SharePoint’s Forms Services then automatically translate these definitions into the appropriate web-based form.
“You can easily set up an approval process for a travel expense form, sparing the employee and supervisor from bouncing Excel files back and forth via e-mail,” notes CMS Watch founder Tony Byrne. “That’s very handy, and not always so simple in competing systems.”
These findings come from CMS Watch’s SharePoint Report 2008, a 190-page evaluation of SharePoint from an enterprise perspective, which assesses the platform’s suitability for eight different business scenarios across various customer tiers. CMS Watch evaluates technologies from a buyer’s perspective, testing tools and debriefing licensees about actual implementation experiences.
Source: Adotas
Letter from Yahoo to “Steve”:
Dear Steve:
Our Board has reviewed your most recent letter with regard to the unsolicited proposal you made to acquire Yahoo! on January 31, 2008.
Our Board carefully considered your unsolicited proposal, unanimously concluded that it was not in the best interests of Yahoo! and our stockholders, and rejected it publicly on February 11, 2008. Our Board cited Yahoo!’s global brand, large worldwide audience, significant recent investments in advertising platforms and future growth prospects, free cash flow and earnings potential, as well as its substantial unconsolidated investments, as factors in its decision.
At the same time, we have continued to make clear that we are not opposed to a transaction with Microsoft if it is in the best interests of our stockholders. Our position is simply that any transaction must be at a value that fully reflects the value of Yahoo!, including any strategic benefits to Microsoft, and on terms that provide certainty to our stockholders.
…Our Board’s view of your proposal has not changed. We continue to believe that your proposal is not in the best interests of Yahoo! and our stockholders. Contrary to statements in your letter, stockholders representing a significant portion of our outstanding shares have indicated to us that your proposal substantially undervalues Yahoo!. Furthermore, as a result of the decrease in your own stock price, the value of your proposal today is significantly lower than it was when you made your initial proposal.
Read the rest here: http://www.adotas.com/2008/04/the-gloves-are-off-at-yahoo/
comScore reports that Google surged past Microsoft last month to become Canada’s most visited web property. This is the first time that Google has been number 1 in Canada and everyone knows that when Google takes the lead in something it’s usually for good. Yahoo, Facebook and EBay round out the top 5 most visited web properties in Canada.
| Top 25 Properties by Number of Canadian Unique Visitors *January 2008 vs. December 2007 Total Canada – Home and Work Locations** Source: comScore Media Metrix |
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| Jan-08 Rank | Dec-07 Rank | Property |
Total Unique Visitors (000) Jan-08 |
| N/A | N/A | Total Internet : Total Audience |
23,802 |
| 1 | 2 | Google Sites |
22,440 |
| 2 | 1 | Microsoft Sites |
22,424 |
| 3 | 3 | Yahoo! Sites |
16,481 |
| 4 | 4 | Facebook.com |
15,354 |
| 5 | 5 | eBay |
13,856 |
| 6 | 6 | Wikipedia Sites |
11,683 |
| 7 | N/A | AOL LLC*** |
10,707 |
| 8 | 7 | Yellow Pages Group |
9,746 |
| 9 | 8 | Amazon Sites |
9,521 |
| 10 | 9 | Apple Inc. |
8,684 |
| 11 | 10 | Canoe Network |
8,596 |
| 12 | 13 | Fox Interactive Media |
8,084 |
| 13 | 15 | CTVglobemedia |
7,876 |
| 14 | 12 | CNET Networks |
7,706 |
| 15 | 11 | The Weather Network Meteomedia |
7,702 |
| 16 | 16 | New York Times Digital |
7,532 |
| 17 | 14 | Ask Network |
7,309 |
| 18 | 18 | Viacom Digital |
6,374 |
| 19 | 20 | CBC-Radio Canada Sites |
6,226 |
| 20 | 19 | Adobe Sites |
6,073 |
| 21 | N/A | Time Warner – Excluding AOL*** |
5,583 |
| 22 | 22 | Gorilla Nation |
5,462 |
| 23 | 21 | WhitePages |
4,939 |
| 24 | 35 | Expedia Inc |
4,890 |
| 25 | 24 | TD Bank Financial Group |
4,573 |
*Ranking based on the top 100 Canadian properties in January 2008.** Excludes traffic from public computers such as Internet cafes or access from mobile phones or PDAs.*** Beginning with January 2008 comScore data, Time Warner Network has now been divided into AOL LLC, which includes all AOL related entities, and Time Warner – Excluding AOL
