News Response #2

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2004392457_btyahoo05.html

Victorious Yahoo CEO now will have to walk the talk
By MICHAEL LIEDTKE
The Associated Press
Monday, May 5, 2008

Summary: In this article, Liedtke talk about Jerry Yang- Yahoo CEO . After many times met with Steve Ballmer Microsoft Chief Executive, they're also had a big deal. When Microsoft offer a price of $33 per share for Yahoo's stock - A attractive price. Whereas the Analysts think this is a suitable price and Yahoo no longer have any reason to refuse it, but Jerry Yang still doesn't accept. He wanted to have extra time. He think this addtional time will help his company to find a partner and force Microsoft to increase the price again. His undecided impetus made Mr. Steve Ballmer headache many times. Microsoft was sometimes very confident that buying Yahoo is a easy thing, but sometimes they felt tried.
My Opinion : I think Jerry Yang is a wise and smart CEO. He must think over anything before make any decision, but he'd better not accept that big deal. I don't know what happen if Yahoo and Microsoft become 1. Now everything I'm using in Yahoo is free. If Microsoft can buy Yahoo, maybe I and others customers will pay for using Yahoo. Otherwise, I want Yahoo be bigger and have a good situation to upgrade anything, such as : 360 blog, Yahoo Photo, Flickr...Anyway, whether Jerry Yang accept or not--> he did a great job. This face-to-face between Jerry Yang and Steve Ballmer is to be continued. Let's see what happens next?
Some new words:
-antitrust (a):
opposing or intended to restrain trusts, monopolies, or other large combinations of business and capital, esp. with a view to maintaining and promoting competition.
- bid (v) : to command; order; direct.
-malaise(n) : a condition of general bodily weakness or discomfort, often marking the onset of a disease.

Book Club Report #4

Title of Book: The Chronicles of Narnia, it has 7 books in this series but I'm reading book 1: The Magician's Nephew. It has 202 pages and I'm now on page 63, I've read 29 pages this week. I understand about 80% what I read.
1. The character I like in the book is Digory because he is the main role in this book.He has all the personality of a young boy although he's a fictional character. I like his conversation very much. He's not only intelligent but also mischievous.At first he is a playful boy, but when Polly got in danger, he became more mature. He is a good boy.
I'm looking forward to seeing the film of this novel on May 16th. I've already seen it's trailer, really interesting. If you have time, let see this film " The Chronicles of Narnia" in the theatres on May 16th.
Vocabulary words:
-reflection(n): an image; representation; counterpart.
- pluck (v): to pull off or out from the place of growth, as fruit, flowers, feathers, etc.
-vague (a): not clearly or explicitly stated or expressed
- solemn(a): grave, sober, or mirthless, as a person, the face, speech, tone, or mood

News Response #1

With Yahoo deal's collapse, stymied Microsoft must find new online strategy

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By Benjamin J. Romano
Seattle Times technology reporter
Monday, May 5, 2008
-In this article the author - Romano talked about the Microsoft's difficult trip to buy yahoo. The reason is Microsoft want to be bigger to compete with Google. They took a long time to suggest Yahoo to merger their two companies. However, Yahoo has resisted to negotiate with Microsoft many times. Whereas Microsoft has already used all their strong method, they even offer a very high price of $44.6 billion. They have 3 plan to force Yahoo : plan A, B, C. They are now using plan B. If this plan isn't effective they will come back to plan B or go ahead to plan C. The Analysts think Microsoft can buy Yahoo. Just because Yahoo think the price is still very cheap and they want more extra time to find some ways to raise the price. However, two days ago Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said that Microsoft will give up buying Yahoo after 2 months tired of negotiating with Yahoo.

-My Opinion: I think this uncompleted commercial affair is also a pity thing for two of this huge company. Yahoo and Microsoft are also my favorite company, especially in Vietnam Yahoo is very popular. Vietnamese people all use Yahoo such as : messenger, email, blog...They just use Google to research. I'm not looking forward Yahoo and Microsoft will merge into 1 one day, I like the way they are now. Yahoo just pay more intention in their customer and upgrade something---> Perfect thing.

Some new words:

-pursuit (n): an effort to secure or attain; quest.
-undisputed (a): not argued with, generally agreed upon; not subject to dispute.
-strive (v) : To make efforts; to use exertions; to endeavor with earnestness; to labor hard.
-strategy (n): a plan, method, or series of maneuvers or stratagems for obtaining a specific goal or result.