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Is Yahoo Home Page Refresh Timed to Temper Tepid Earnings?

Yahoo this afternoon will let users opt-in to try a beta test of its new home page, which integrates Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and 60-plus other Web services and content sites. This application development plan is geared to get users coming to Yahoo and staying there, with Yahoo serving users contextually targeted ads to reverse its flagging fortunes. Yahoo’s opt-in seems timed for the company’s second quarter earnings call, for which analysts do not have high hopes.

Yahoo July 21 will begin to invite its millions of users to test its new home page, a lively
rethinking of one of the most popular Web destinations that lets users
integrate their Twitter, Facebook and other popular Web feeds.
Yahoo, which will duplicate the new home page for mobile…


Microsoft CEO Ballmer Sees Tech Refresh Happening Despite Economy

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer suggested that even the worst economy in decades won’t prevent IT administrators and the enterprise from executing a tech refresh, in comments seemingly aimed at those reluctant to embrace Microsoft’s upcoming operating system, Windows 7. Despite the recession, Microsoft plans to invest more than $9.5 billion in R D in the coming year.
– Microsoft
CEO Steve Ballmer suggested during a July 14
speech in New Orleans that the
economic recession wont necessarily remain an impediment to enterprises
refreshing their IT infrastructure.
quot;This is not an economic prediction, just a thought exercise, quot;
Ballmer told a large audie…