For the past decade, the people of Trokavec, Czech Republic, have been convinced that America was positioning their quiet town of around 100, an hour south of Prague, as the center of a giant bullseye.
So when news was confirmed that the U.S. had scrapped plans to place part of a missile defense shield in a military zone near the town, Jan Neoral, the mayor of Trokavec and vocal anti-missile shield campaigner, announced with uncharacteristic understatement that President Barack Obama’s decision [...]
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A planned deal that would place Microsoft Corp.’s Bing search tool on Yahoo Inc. search pages is being eyed by European antitrust regulators, according to a report Thursday.
Reuters reported that Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) is having informal talks with regulators in Europe about the deal.
The deal with Microsoft and Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO) is already being looked at by U.S. regulators.
Yahoo has agreed to use Bing on its Internet sites in return for 88 percent of the revenue from search [...]
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