eWeek Newsbreak, July 28, 2008
By eWEEK
2008-07-28
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AMD is taking a pass on the low-cost notebook market for now. The chipmaker’s new marketing chief Nigel Dessau told eWEEK AMD will continue to watch the so-called "netbook" space as it continues to develop, but has no immediate plans to offer specific processors for these laptops Intel is already marketing; Web giant Yahoo reported dipping second-quarter earnings last week ahead of its Aug. 1 annual shareholder meeting. That meeting could see shareholders could press executives to accept a deal with Microsoft; Facebook made sweeping changes to the world's largest social networking site last week. Facebook's redesign aims to make user profiles more dynamic by giving more prominence to the newest information, and it is cracking down on applications that Spam users; Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg pledged $375 million last week to fight what they called a global tobacco epidemic. It marks Bill Gates’ first public event as chairman of his Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation since he left his full-time executive role at Microsoft in June.
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