Posts Tagged with ‘EDS’

It’s Corporate Mash-Up Week! CBS to Acquire CNET

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira

I'm starting to think I may just want to skip right over the rest of 2008 and start fresh in 2009 when companies come to their senses. First HP decides to acquire support service dinosaur EDS, then Comcast snaps up Plaxo (all the better to throttle your bandwidth AND that of your social graph, my pretties!), and now CBS buys CNET.
I'm sure CNET is ecstatic about the news; several of their properties have been financially struggling now for what seems [...]

Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft Already United…

Cyndy Aleo-Carreira

… in hating New York State Assemblyman Richard Brodsky.
Brodsky, a Democrat representing a Westchester County District, is sponsoring a bill that would limit the ability of companies to collect information for targeted advertising. Joining Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft in opposing the bill are AOL, Comcast, eBay, EDS, and Facebook.
Jim Halpert, general counsel for the State Privacy and Security Coalition, claims that the bill "is unnecessary, most likely unconstitutional, and would have profound implications for the future of Internet advertising and [...]