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AFTRA has SAG at arm's length Daily Variety - May 8, 2008 In a move underlining the deep divisions between the two performers unions, AFTRA's not letting the Screen Actors Guild get back into the negotiating room with the majors --- at least for a few weeks. The American Federation of Television & Radio Artists spurned a SAG bid Wednesday to postpone its primetime negotiations with the majors so the guild could continue its talks, which ended as schedule...
News Corp. defends moves; As profit soars, the media giant says it's optimistic MySpace will continue to grow. Los Angeles Times - May 8, 2008 News Corp. executives worked Wednesday to bolster investor confidence for MySpace, the online social network it won praise for buying in 2005 but lately has attracted concern from Wall Street. Chief Operating Officer Peter Chernin acknowledged that Fox Interactive Media, which includes MySpace, would fall 10% short of revenue projections for the fiscal year. But he said that social networks are th...
Google increasingly showing off strategic muscle; Death of Yahoo-Microsoft deal was latest victory for search advertising giant The International Herald Tribune - May 7, 2008 Microsoft and Yahoo were pushed to the brink of a multibillion-dollar marriage and then to a sudden breakup this past weekend by the same player. It was Google, in the odd dual role as both unwitting matchmaker and self-interested spoiler. Google's phenomenal rise, after all, prodded Microsoft, the dominant technology company for more than two decades, to court Yahoo. And Google's success also wea...
Apple readies 3G debut of iPhone in Europe The International Herald Tribune - May 7, 2008 Apple plans to begin selling the long-awaited, faster 3G version of its best-selling iPhone by the August summer holidays in some European countries, a person close to the situation said, as part of an expanded rollout of the device to 10 countries around the world that was announced Tuesday....
Google triumphs as its rivals' courtship fizzles; The Web search giant, which fought the Microsoft-Yahoo deal, is likely to boost its online ad dominance. Los Angeles Times - May 6, 2008 In the now-suspended takeover fight between software titan Microsoft Corp. and Internet poster child Yahoo Inc., the winner was a heckler in the audience. The combined companies could have created a formidable challenger to Google Inc., but the Web search king helped scuttle the deal by complaining about the potential effect on competition and by tossing Yahoo a lifeline in the form of an advertis...

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