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Gomez wrote: Steve
Souders is now at Google,
and the Google Code team
has taken some of the
advice from High
Performance Web Sites and
applied it to reduce
user-perceived latenc
Microsoft CEO Steve
Ballmer is now running
the company's Windows,
Windows Live and Internet
properties after Kevin
Johnson, the president of
the company's Platforms
and Services Division
(PSD) and a key player in
the failed
Microsoft-Yahoo talks,
bolted to Jupiter
Networks, where he wi
Two of the biggest
launches in Rich Internet
Application history took
place in 2007/2008 when
Adobe launched AIR 1.0 in
February '08 and
Microsoft launched
Silverlight (September
'07). At the 6th
International AJAXWorld
RIA Conference & Expo in
October SYS-CON Events is
delighted to be
A year into Jerry Yang's
turnaround strategy - and
10 days before a
potentially ear-boxing
stockholders meeting -
and Yahoo has produced
second-quarter results
that missed Wall Street's
reduced expectations.
And, as the AP observed,
its market value is now
about $18 billion below
Micro
With the stock market
crashing, or giving a
good approximation of a
crash Thursday, Yahoo,
poor thing - well, it has
behaved like a sick lost
puppy, now hasn't it -
announced a supposedly
pressure-relieving
reorganization just like
its familiars in the
press said it would. It
is, as wa
Citrix has tapped its VP
of channels and emerging
product sales Al
Monserrat to replace its
departing sales chief
John Burris, who, as
previously reported, is
going to Sourcefire as
CEO. A couple of years
ago Monserrat was
responsible for Citrix'
North American sales.
Meanwhile, Citrix
There ain't gonna be no
highly diverting
no-holds-barred
fight-to-the-finish proxy
fight over Yahoo come the
company's stockholders
meeting August 1. The two
sides cut a deal Monday.
Yahoo will be giving
corporate raider Carl
Icahn - who was
threatening to replace
the whole Yahoo board
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