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Forbes reports that Justin Post, a Merrill Lynch analyst, recommends Microsoft to buy Yahoo. He believes this would really help Microsoft bridge the gap in competition for number of search queries. Google currently has 44% of the search shares, while Microsoft would have 41% if they opted to acquire Yahoo. He notes that Google has been successful in using internet generated revenue to fund software development, and this is allowing them to dig deeper into the software industry. Post calls this a “a long-term business risk” to Microsoft. Now, will Microsoft take the plunge?

Okay, so not everyone’s going to recognize FTW (for the win), but everyone understands “eBay” and “great deal”. Previous studies have been done that show that winning bids occur most frequently in the last couple of seconds before the auction closes. This also helps keep the cost of the item low because it virtually shortens the auction time. My wife knows this, and others have studied the phenomenon, but now South Korean physicists have applied a universal formula that supports the truth in this matter. They say that formula is nk(t+1) — nk(t) = w(k-1)(t)*n(k-1)(t) — wk(t)*nk(t) + sigma(k,1)*u(t)

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