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Friday Five – May 13, 2011
ByDerekLet’s start off with the big news of the week – Microsoft buying Skype: #1 – 5 Key Takeaways From the Microsoft-Skype Press Conference [gigaom] On the morning Microsoft made its $8.5 billion acquisition of Skype official, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Skype CEO Tony Bates held a press conference in downtown San Francisco to discuss…
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Bring It Back To Life Fundraising Concert
ByDerekSaturday, February 25th, 7pm @ Club Paradise 3950 McKinley Parkway, Blasdell NY Featuring: Michael Bly Dirty Little Business Cosmic Stepping Stone The Feast Breakerbox With visual displays by Garbaz, the Buffalo Barfly Girls, Labatt Blue/Blue Light specials, promotional giveaways, t-shirts, cds and more. Net proceeds to benefit the continued restoration of Buffalo Central Terminal Pre-Sale…
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Friday Five – January 28, 2011
ByDerekHere are this week’s five interesting articles… #1 – Microsoft UC Team Blog: Don’t Be the Last Company on Notes [Ed Brill] On behalf of 50,000 organizations worldwide, let me say this in the most professional way possible: Don’t insult us, Microsoft. Today, Microsoft came clean on their whisper campaign of the last six months,…
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They figured out spam doesn’t pay [taxes]
ByDerekFrom Random Thoughts 101, who kindly attended the town board meeting last night while the rest of us watched the Sabres game, the Hamburg Town Board smartly ended their misguided boycott of Mobil stations in the town. No word yet on whether or not Hochul bought all remaining copies of the New York Times from…
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First stock trade of the year
ByDerekLast year was the first year that I really started paying attention to the stock market. While I’ve had a portfolio for several years, I was unsuccessfully following the old “Buy and Hold” mantra. I decided that 2006 was going to be the year I learned more about how the system actually worked and I…
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