By JIM YARDLEY
DATONG, China — At the mouth of the Tashan mine, one of the largest coal mines in China, men in hard hats waited to begin another shift a quarter mile underground. Lunch break was over. Their faces were smeared with black coal dust as a dingy white truck carried them down an […]
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What’s Online
By DAN MITCHELL
TONGUE planted firmly in cheek — or maybe not, it’s a bit hard to tell — Fion MacCloud of the British site Finance Markets recently offered “10 Ways the Recession Can Help the Environment.” A recession, he noted, means less waste dumped into landfills, fewer S.U.V.’s sold and fewer people […]
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By VICTORIA SHANNON
PARIS — Alcatel-Lucent, the telecommunications giant, said Friday that its fourth-quarter revenue increased 18 percent over the same period a year ago, at 5.23 billion euros ($7.6 billion), despite earlier warnings of a rough period.
But the company still posted a loss of 2.58 billion euros ($3.8 billion) for the quarter on a […]
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Executive Pursuits
Sending an S O S for a PC Exorcist
By HARRY HURT III
AT high noon on a recent Monday, I leaped up from my desk vowing to commit the most sensational attack of revenge in the history of the personal computer industry. Just 72 hours earlier, I had taken delivery on […]
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By ANDREW ROSS SORKIN and MIGUEL HELFT
SAN FRANCISCO — A week after Yahoo learned that it would be the target of a $44.6 billion hostile bid by Microsoft, the company’s board met on Friday to consider its options, a person briefed on the meeting said.
The directors listened to a series of presentations […]
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By MATT RICHTEL
SAN FRANCISCO — Nearly a quarter-century ago, the mantra “information wants to be free” heralded an era in which news, entertainment and personal communications would flow at no charge over the Internet.
Now comes a new rallying cry: software wants to be free. Or, as the tech insiders say, it wants to be […]
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