This Week in Tech 141

Microsoft withdraws Yahoo bid, Grand Theft Auto IV, First live TWiT in new studio, and more.

• Microsoft finally decides to back out of Yahoo deal.
• What does this mean for Ballmer?
• Expect a TWiT battle of Internet superegos at next year's MacWorld?
• Maker Faire held this weekend.
• Following TWiT Live on Twitter.
• First live TWiT on TWiTLive.tv. Leo, Wil and Jason live on Stickam video
• Will Laporte beat Obama before Rose beats Laporte on Twitter?
• Comcast burst vs. Verizon FiOS.
• Yahoo's scorched earth plan won out, but stocks should tank. Lawsuits expected.
• Calacanis: Google, VC and startups are winners, Yahoo shareholders are losers.
• Yahoo was asking for $37/share, MSFT top offer was $33.
• Yahoo couldn't take real poison pill, so it took other countermeasures.
• Would Gates have trashed Yahoo like that Simpsons episode?
• Anti-trust issues: Are people suffering for free email choice?
• Watch out for spreadsheet monkeys.
• One thing's for sure: Balmer likes developers.
• Average Web page triples in size since 2003, from 93.7K to over 312K. BTW, why does AOL.com look so much like Yahoo.com?
• Photoshop guru leaves Adobe for Microsoft
• Despite Sony's format victory, Blu-ray sales still down.
• Grand Theft Auto IV finally hits the streets

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