Yahoo Buys Zimbra for $350 Million  —  Yahoo is set to make yet another acquisition-this time of white-label open-source email provider Zimbra.  Sources close to the deal said that the Internet portal will pay $350 million, considerably upwards of its most recent valuation, for the email and calendar provider.

Source:   BoomTown
Author:   Kara Swisher
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Yahoo Buys Zimbra for $350 Million  —  Yahoo is set to make yet another acquisition-this time of white-label open-source email provider Zimbra.  Sources close to the deal said that the Internet portal will pay $350 million, considerably upwards of its most recent valuation, for the email and calendar provider.

Source:   BoomTown
Author:   Kara Swisher
Link:   […]

Breaking: Yahoo Acquires Zimbra For $350 million in Cash  —  Yahoo will announce the acquisition of open source online/offline office suite Zimbra this evening, we just heard through a very solid source.  The price: $350 million, in cash, confirmed.  —  Our coverage of Zimbra goes back to 2005.

Source:   TechCrunch
Author:   Michael Arrington
Link:   http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/17/breaking-yahoo…

TechCrunch 40 Session 1: Search & Discovery  —  Session one as follows, including our live notes.  —  Powerset  —  Powerset is a natural language search engine that can use everyday phrases and grammer to conduct more accruate web searches by understanding the search query and the pages it indexes.

Source:   TechCrunch
Author:   Duncan Riley
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Vista attacked by 13-year-old virus  —  A batch of laptops pre-installed with Windows Vista Home Premium was found to have been infected with a 13-year-old boot sector virus.  —  Those of you with a long memory will vividly recall the year 1994: Nirvana’s lead singer Kurt Cobain died …

Source:   The Register
Author:   Kelly Fiveash
Link: […]

Follow the TechCrunch40 Conference Online  —  Couldn’t snag a ticket to this year’s TechCrunch40 conference?  Head on over to techcrunch40.com to follow the action online.  —  We’ve put together a fully-featured website for the event, which starts this morning and continues through Tuesday evening.

Source:   TechCrunch
Author:   Mark Hendrickson
Link:   http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/17/follow-the…

China man dies after three-day Internet session  — China man dies after three-day Internet session  —  BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese man dropped dead after playing Internet games for three consecutive days, state media said on Monday as China seeks to wean Internet addicts offline.

Source:   Yahoo! News
Link:   http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070917/wr_nm…

AOL Realigns Business, Unveils Global Integrated Advertising Platform  —  The New Entity, Platform A, Will Offer Advertisers Access to the Largest Internet-wide Display Advertising Network and Most Sophisticated Tools; Builds on Success of Advertising.com and Integrates TACODA, Third Screen Media, Lightningcast and ADTECH

Source:   Business Wire
Link:   http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/070917/20070917005611.html

Idearc Executives Discuss Switchboard.com and Other Directory Assets Acquisition from InfoSpace  —  Acquisition Significantly Expands Idearc’s Local Search Platform and Traffic  —  DALLAS—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Idearc Inc. (NYSE: IAR), home to Superpages.com® and publisher of the Verizon® Yellow Pages …

Source:   Business Wire
Link:   http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index…

Microsoft loses anti-trust appeal  —  Microsoft has lost its appeal against a record 497m euro (£343m; $690m) fine imposed by the European Commission in a long-running competition dispute.  —  The European Court of First Instance upheld the ruling that Microsoft had abused its dominant market position.

Source:   BBC
Link:   http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6998272.stm