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Yahoo! heroes instead of zeroes in stand against MSFT but not against Chinese repression

Yahoo's rejection of Microsoft's offer smacks of a face saving attempt by its management and board to look heroic following its despicable behaviour in China. MSFT is very likely going to prevail with its acquisition since it seems to have the support of Yahoo's largest shareholders. Yahoo's...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., MSFT, Shi, Government, Recruitment & Selection, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-02-17

Yahoo! and its looming hiring crisis following despicable acts in China

Can moral "pigmies" and "police informants" attract the best and brightest talent? Just in case you missed it, last week Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang and its chief lawyer Michael Callahan were called to Washington DC to explain to lawmakers why Yahoo! helped the Chinese government arrest...

Tags: Hiring, Yahoo! Inc., Shi, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Human Resources, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2007-11-10

Yahoo wants dissidents' case dismissed

Yahoo wants a federal court to dismiss Chinese dissident Shi Tao's complaint against the company for allegedly facilitating his arrest by Chinese authorities. Yahoo Monday filed a 51-page motion to dismiss, claiming that Shi's problem is with Chinese authorities and that the case has "no place in American courts." ...

Tags: China, Yahoo! Inc., Government, Sklar, ZDNet Government

Blog posts 2007-08-28

Additional Resources

AOV Based Fingerprint Minutiae Matching System (zip)

AOV Based Fingerprint Minutiae Matching System - Matlab source code. Minutia matching is the most popular approach to fingerprint recognition. We have developed a novel fingerprint feature named adjacent orientation vector, or AOV, for fingerprint matching. In the first stage, AOV is used to find possible minutiae pairs. Then one...

Tags: Information System, Orientation, Payroll, Luigi Rosa, Payroll Solutions, Operational Accounting, Strategy, Finance, Management

Software downloads 2008-08-31

When will cleantech be profitable? How about Q2, 2008!

The world's first solar power billionaire is on a role. Not in Silicon Valley or Spain or even solar-blessed Arizona. In China. The global gold medal winner in solar profits: Shi Zhengrong, head of Suntech Power. They make photovoltaics sold the world over. Free...

Tags: China, Spain, Stock, Photovoltaics, Clean Technology, Suntech Power, Zhengrong, Manufacturing, Investment, Finance, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-08-21

Human Rights: An Inconvenient Truth

The debate on business and human rights is set to heat up this year with the 60th anniversary of the UN General Assembly resolution adopting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights UDHR. The Beijing Olympics and a sharpened focus on the potential winners and losers in the climate change crisis...

Tags: James Farrar

Blog posts 2008-02-25

The Lantos/Yahoo! legacy

Tom Lantos may have made his very last stand for human rights last November when he recalled Yahoo! executives to challenge their earlier testimony surrounding the Shi Tao case. Shi Tao is a Chinese activist serving ten years in prison on trumped up charges and Yahoo! stand accused of handing...

Tags: Coalition, Yahoo! Inc., Shi Tao, Policies And Procedures, Internet, Strategy, Human Resources, Management, James Farrar

Blog posts 2008-02-12

IT transformation - it's about destroying fiefdoms

Larry Dignan thinks the key to IT transformation success is having the CEOs attention: These big technology architecture overhauls require CEO participation and folks like Cisco CEO John Chambers are on board. The CEO also can't blink when your SOA/consolidation/automation project doesn't go well. That's what makes HP's overhaul...

Tags: History, Transformation, Information Technology, Kingdom, CEO, Strategy, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2007-12-11

Yahoo settles with dissident families, but it may be responsible for hundreds of arrests

Yahoo has settled with the families of two Chinese dissidents it helped put in a Chinese prison. Terms of the deal with the families of Shin Tao, Wang Xiaoning and Yu Ling weren't announced, according to Reuters. "Plaintiffs and defendants hereby jointly stipulate to...

Tags: Jerry Yang, Yahoo! Inc., Litigation, Free Trade, Business Operations, Finance, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2007-11-13

Yahoo settles with jailed Chinese journalists

Updated: Yahoo has settled with two Chinese journalists that were jailed after the company turned over their online information. According to the Associated Press, Yahoo settled a lawsuit with two journalists and a family member. They sued Yahoo after its Yahoo HK subsidiary gave Chinese authorities emails...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Internet, Litigation, E-mail, Business Operations, Online Communications, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-11-13

Yahoo's Callahan parses his testimony

Business Week has a copy of Yahoo GC Michael Callahan's far right written testimony to Congress, in which he explains his February 2006 testimony and why it was not a lie. In my testimony, I stated: "When Yahoo! China in Beijing was required to...

Tags: Testimony, Yahoo! Inc., Business Week, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2007-11-06

Yahoo takes a drubbing in Congress

Jerry Yang offered this promise after an all-morning grilling in Congress, as blogged by Declan McCullagh: "We will take more responsibility both morally and ethically." Yang and Yahoo's top lawyer, Michael Callahan, were summoned to Washington Tuesday by...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., U.S. Congress, Government, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2007-11-06

Undercover video: Why Apple only takes credit cards for iPhones & the legal questions raised

Undercover video: Why Apple only takes credit cards for iPhones & the legal questions raisedI personally...have nothing wrong with what apple is doing - it seems to be a perfectly valid reason for asking for credit cards as consumers SIMPLY cannot be trusted... (im not too sure how sarcastic i...

Tags: Sales channel, Financial services, video, credit card, credit card number, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., digital signature

Discussion threads 2007-11-02

Rep: Yahoo lied to Congress about Chinese journalist

Yahoo lied to Congress last year about its role in the arrest of a Chinese journalist, Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.) charged Tuesday. Lantos said Yahoo general counsel Michael Callahan lied when he told a House panel that Yahoo had no information "about the nature of the investigation" by Chinese authorities...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., U.S. Congress, Tom Lantos, Security, ZDNet Government

Blog posts 2007-10-16

China crackdown on media as Congress investigates Yahoo

Every five years China's Communist Party Congress takes place and in celebration the government engages in repression of dissent and dangerous thinking. Wednesday, China crackdown on "false news reports, unauthorized publications and bogus journalists," the New York Times reports.A journalist was given a one-year prison sentence and a $130...

Tags: China, Yahoo! Inc., Media, U.S. Congress, ZDNet Government

Blog posts 2007-08-16

Having aidied in arrest, Yahoo now criticizes China for jailing journalist

Going against the grain of its fellow search engine giants, Yahoo has publically criticized China for punishing citizens who expressing their political views on the Internet, reports the Associated PressThe announcement comes after the mother of Chinese reporter Shi Tao announced she was suing Yahoo for helping officials imprison her...

Tags: China

Blog posts 2007-06-12

As time passes, pressure to move to Vista mounts

As time passes, pressure to move to Vista mountsFortunately I buy from a Sys BuilderThis will buy me that extra year I need, but I am not sure if that will be enough time to get ready.Vista will begin to take off in about a year, knowing how history has...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), FOUR-YEAR, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage

Discussion threads 2007-04-12

Google updates maps after Katrina 'airbrushing' incident

Google updates maps after Katrina 'airbrushing' incidentInteresting how Congress can get so hot and fast on the ballexcept for help care, cost of living, where tax dollars get wasted, etc etc. Guess this was an easy target, Google will want to maintain its earned imagine. Now back...

Tags: INTERNET, Google Inc., Katrina, U.S. Congress

Discussion threads 2007-04-02

Whistle blown on wiki for whistle-blowers

Whistle blown on wiki for whistle-blowersThis site has to be the worst idea of the year.Not only can any Joe-shmoe post totally fabricated information anonimously, but it's also considered to be fact until it's democratically proven otherwise. I'm curious when it was decided that the truth is decided by...

Tags: Vertical industries, Wiki, moderator, chinese page, government

Discussion threads 2007-02-07

Yahoo and Google should not endanger their Chinese users

One of the most powerful images of the 20th Century is "Tank Man" the man that walked out in front of a column of tanks -- a day after the bloody suppression of the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989. He walked into the middle of a pedestrian crossing, with...

Tags: Silicon Valley

Blog posts 2006-11-07