In lieu of my brilliant treatise on oil dependence
I took some notes earlier today on a post I wanted to write tonight regarding OIL ..... It would have been very exciting (not really), but now I find I just don't have the energy to address the issue. It's after midnight, and I've had a long, busy day. I already wrote my weekly newspaper column (titled "Web Spin", published in The Sidney Daily News , Troy Daily News and Piqua Daily Call , and covering anything remotely Internet related) tonight, so I'm sharing it with links to the papers. Microsoft drops takeover bid The biggest Internet news this week – as of the time of this writing, anyway – is the apparent end of Microsoft’s bid to buy Yahoo. While Microsoft had increased its offer to buy Yahoo at $33 per share (approximately $47.5 billion), Yahoo’s management held firm at a price of $37 per share. Yahoo execs are calling Microsoft’s retreat a win for the Internet company, which is now back in the same place it was before the offer –facing falling stock ...