] Google late on Thursday reported its first-quarter
] revenue nearly doubled to $1.26 billion. By comparison,
] Clear Channel Communications Inc., the No. 1 U.S. radio
] station owner, in its most recently reported quarter had
] radio revenue of $964.5 million.

GOOG is around $218 right now.

Google Stock Jumps 11 Pct After Results

] Video-game retailer GameStop Corp. has agreed to buy
] rival Electronics Boutique Holdings Corp. for about $1.4
] billion in cash and stock, creating a chain of about
] 3,800 stores worldwide.

GameStop to Acquire Electronics Boutique

] Hewlett-Packard once went for flamboyance and style with
] Carleton S. Fiorina, the chairwoman and chief executive
] who was fired in February.
]
] On Tuesday, the company chose to return to its
] traditional low-key management approach in naming Mark V.
] Hurd, the little-known president and chief executive of
] NCR, a maker of computers and automated teller machines,
] to succeed Ms. Fiorina.

HP Taps NCR Chief Hurd to replace Carley

] MCI Inc. accepted a sweetened $7.64 billion takeover
] proposal from Verizon Communications Inc. on Tuesday that
] raises the price tag by $1 billion, but is still nearly a
] billion dollars shy of the latest bid for the
] long-distance phone company from Qwest Communications
] International Inc.

This is probably going to get messier now. There's some mumbling of a hostile attempt from Quest.

Yahoo! News - MCI Accepts Sweetened $7.64B Verizon Offer

] After more than a year of touting Blu-ray Disc as the
] best technology to replace DVD for storing
] high-definition video, a top executive at Sony, one of
] Blu-ray's major backers, has opened the door to the
] possibility of unifying the format with its arch rival,
] HD-DVD.

Sigh...

Sony May Unite Blu-ray Disc, HD-DVD

] "By and large, (corporate customers) are somewhere in
] between uninterested and hostile to the wild and woolly
] world of open source," Gosling said.

What a twit. Java could have been so much more if not for Sun...

Sun still won't open Java

] Open Solaris may go down in history as one the finest
] examples of business strategy ever--unless, of course,
] it's just dumb luck.

Ummmm .... I say again, "Solaris is not cool."

Open Solaris and strategic consequences

]
] Mozilla's Firefox keeps chipping away at Microsoft's
] massive lead in browser usage, two Web metrics firms
] reported Monday.
]
] San Diego, Calif.-based WebSideStory, which last released
] usage numbers in January, said that in the last five
] weeks, Firefox has gained an additional 0.74 percent to
] account for 5.7 percent of all browsers used in the U.S.
] Microsoft's Internet Explorer, meanwhile, now stands at
] 89.9 percent, a drop from January's 90.3 percent, and the
] first time WebSideStory pegged IE as falling under the
] 90-percent mark.

Firefox Nips IE Ankles Again

] You know those movies? The ones where the ultimate,
] bloody ending is played through painful slow-mo? Will the
] protagonists get their bullets? Of course. It's just a
] matter of waiting. In the meantime, try not to wince too
] much at the graphic carnage.

SCO's Slow Death Spiral

] ANALOGIES are often drawn between the fields of computer
] science and biology. The information-processing abilities
] of DNA are a form of natural molecular computing, and
] computer viruses leap from machine to machine in ways
] reminiscent of their disease-causing namesakes. At the
] International Solid-State Circuits Conference in San
] Francisco this week, a trio of mighty
] information-technology firms%u2014Sony, Toshiba and
] IBM%u2014pushed the analogy a little further. They
] unveiled a much anticipated new computer chip, four years
] in the making, the very name of which is a biological
] metaphor: the Cell.

It sounds like Cell is basically a Power core with a bunch of IO and some special units to do PS3 things, etc.

Sony/Toshiba/IBM Launch Cell