Yahoo’s board and users may not like microsoft. But yahoo’s shareholders love microsoft for sure. Since yahoo’s board has rejected microsoft’s offer, shareholders are starting to file case against yahoo.
Why are the shareholders so upset?
Before microsoft made the offer, yahoo’s shares were trading at 19$. So the 31$ offer by microsoft is almost 60% premium on the market price. More importantly yahoo has lot of cash on its balance sheet. The cash is equivalent to 12$ per share.
Now the market price of a share (19$) = cash on balance …

Apple launched Apple Air in India today. It is the thinnest Notebook on earth, so thin that Steve Jobs had introduced it by pulling it out from a standard envelope. Considering that Apple Air was launched in US in january only, that was quick.
The retail price in India is Rs 96,100 ($2,421). Apple Air sells for close to 75k Rs in US. So if you want to buy one, then it makes sense to get one from US.
You can read our initial review of Apple Air.

Imagine your boss telling you, you will get a 200$ or 10,000 Rupees per month increament after 6 months if you work for 2 more hours everyday. The best part is you get to choose the work you want to do in these 2 hours. Will you say no?? Then you will be surprised to know that everyday this deal is being offered to you and you keep saying no !!!
Here is a list of things you can do to accept that offer
Get paid to Code There are many …

I chanced upon http://www.techtracer.com while researching for the last post about searching for movie timings through Google. I was impressed by the clean and intuitive design of the blog. By the time I had finished reading 3-4 posts on the blog, I was hooked. I started reading the about me page and liked what I read there. So I sent an email to Nitin, asking him for his contact number. He agreed. We had a chat today and here is his story. I am putting it here because …

Planning to go to a movie over the weekend. You will be surprised how easily you can research for the movie using google.
Find out all the latest releases in your city http://www.google.co.in/movies?near=Mumbai Replace mumbai in that url with your city name to find the latest releases in your city.
Find the showtime of a particular movie http://www.google.co.in/movies?q=superstar&near=Mumbai Replace superstar with the name of the movie of your choice and Mumbai with your city name.

Here is a list of wordpress plugins that we are currently using on binaryday.
Spam Control from akismet. Without this plugin, there was no way we could have allowed our users to comment on the blog. Works like a magic in controlling spam. This was the first plugin you must install, once your blog is up and running.
Google sitemap generator helps you create a xml sitemap for your wordpress blog. Helps google find more pages on your blog. Make sure to submit the sitemap to google webmaster central. This is the …

Google is perhaps the most inspiring story for most of us davids trying to take on the Goliaths. There is a lot that I have learnt from the rise of Google. Thought of sharing some of those points with you.
Most of us believe that Google became the no1 search engine because of its superior algorithm. Google did not win because of its superior technology. I know you will not take my word for it. So watch this video. This is a presentation by Seth Godin to the employees of Google. …

This post is not at all related to the MS-Yahoo deal. It’s just coming at the time.
Neither this post has to do any thing with “It is Different this time” post below.
Two days ago I had a chance to talk to a Stanford graduate who has been working with Sun in the U.S for about past eight years. He joined Sun at a time when Sun was at the top. After the 2001 bubble burst, Sun just came crashing down. There was a time when (like Google today) Sun …

Sometimes it can be really difficult to create a flowchart without the proper tool. I just discovered this really cool website that allows you to create a nice flowchart online without much effort. I just created this flowchart for finding out if a number is primary or not.

Long long time ago (i.e in 2000) there were many websites that spent a lot of money for getting users. They planned to monetize the users through advertisement. However that plan did not work out and most of them had to close shop.In the process they lost a lot of money. I am sure you have heard this famous story about the dotcom bubble and bust.
Why am I writing about a 8 year old story? Because it seems like the story is being replayed again. There are many starry …

The previous post talks about downloading yutube videos. I would like to give another option for firefox users. Get the unplug plug-in for firefox. It’s a video download tool that’s not just for youtube. It can download any embedded video on any webpage. It gives a list of all the videos embedded on a particular page.
It downloads from the original source of the video.
Try it . It’s great.

Ever wanted to download a clip from youtube? vexy.net is one of the best websites that I have used till date. It first converts the youtube videos to more usable format like .avi and then lets you download the same. Check it out.
You can also download youtube players at abhisays

Bangalore blogger meet
16/02/2008 at 16:00

After weeks of reporting sad news, here is something that will cheer you up. Bloggers in Bangalore have planned a meeting on 16th Feb. And guess what? Microsoft has offered their conference room.
Unfortunately I shall not be able to attend as I am not in Mumbai.

Vineet’s post made me think about the logic behind microsoft, yahoo deal. If it is obvious to everyone that even a combined yahoo and microsoft can not beat google then why is microsoft paying so much of money to buy yahoo?
Because microsoft is getting yahoo damn cheap. Yahoo gets as much or more traffic than google. Google earns almost all of its earnings from advertisement. More than 80% of that earning comes from its partner network. Which means it earns 80% of the earning from advertisement on its pages. Now …