Yahoo Kicks Microsoft,
Microsoft Kicks ISO,
Apple Kicks Everyone By Alan Zeichick

When we last

left our

heroes in

the March

issue of

net Worker, Microsoft had

attempted a hostile takeover

of Yahoo. Here we are, three

months later, and there’s been

little progress. Yahoo, which

clearly doesn’t want to be

acquired, has launched a number

of initiatives that have success-

fully kept the Redmond Raiders

at bay. And while Microsoft

CEO Steve Ballmer has protested

and blustered, so far Yahoo has

remained quite independent.

Redmond is clearly miffed

that Yahoo went ahead and

released AMP!, a new advertising

platform. “Central to Yahoo!’s

strategy to be the partner of

choice for advertisers, agencies,

publishers and networks, AMP!

will take the pain and complexity

out of advertising online by pro-

viding an integrated, Web-based

Macintosh Kicks Butt,
but Apple Slows in
Consumer Electronics

Thanks to its big-ticket, high-margin iMacs and MacBooks, Apple churned out record profits in its second quarter of fiscal 2008. The quarter encompassed January-March, and resulted in revenue of $7.51 billion, and profit of $1.05 billion. But while sales are still strong, there are signs that momentum is slowing in Apple’s consumer electronics products.

According to Apple, the company shipped 2,289,000 Macs during those three months, representing a 51 percent unit growth over January-March 2007. This broke down as:

• 856,000 desktops (includ-
ing iMacs, minis, and oddly
enough, Xserves), compared