Carl Icahn joined the Board of Directors at Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) in July 2008. This was shortly after Icahn highly criticized the Yahoo! Board of Directors for their negligence in making an acquisition agreement with Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT). Icahn bought and sold many Yahoo! shares ever since.
The reason why Icahn is leaving the Yahoo! Board of Directors is because he wanted to spend more time on other investments he made. “I don’t believe that it is necessary at this time to have an activist on the board of Yahoo and currently my attention is focused on other matters,” stated Icahn. Carol Bartz is “doing a great job” added Icahn.
Yahoo! and Microsoft recently struck a deal too. Microsoft Corporation’s Bing.com search engine will power Yahoo!’s various online properties including the homepage Yahoo.com. The deal is still under the regulatory approval process. Icahn owns 4.5% in Yahoo! financially based on stock.
In this picture Linus Torvalds is giving Windows 7 a thumbs up in Japan. Torvalds is the man behind open source Linux operating system. Why is he doing this? Perhaps Torvalds wants to keep it classy unlike the Apple CEO when he flipped off the IBM building. Sometimes these pictures come back to haunt you many years later. Another theory is that Linus is pointing out that only one copy has been sold off the shelf.
I just spent 40 minutes watching videos on my iPhone and it’s A Video Shaker’s fault! Sure, I could just as easily fire up the default YouTube app and search for “funny”, but the results will be more or less the same every time unless I change the search term to something else.
A Video Shaker is a quick way to find some pretty funny stuff to watch just by shaking your device instead of trying to figure out what to search for. Not all of the videos are LOL funny… the first one I saw, “Sand Art”, was decidedly unfunny but still somewhat interesting… but the vast majority are legitimately entertaining.
Videos can be added to a Favorites list by tapping the star icon in the top right corner of the screen, and the app keeps a history of videos you’ve watched.
BlackMuse Software has provided several rounds worth of codes to hand out so, if you miss out on this group, don’t fret – more will be posted later today! And if you want this app but miss out on the free codes completely, just buy it… there are much worse ways to spend a buck.
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