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...Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon rsc.org.uk A Christmas Carol The Old Vic’s lovely, carol-wreathed staging of Dickens’s Christmas classic returns, this time with Paterson Joseph as the old...
...outlook for Microsoft workers, based on a “growth mindset” that would involve constantly being open to learning and new ideas, rather than the “fixed mindset” of the past — concepts taken from psychologist Carol...
...The carol ends with the gentle lesson that those who “bless the poor/ shall themselves find blessing.”...
...But there is astonishing, jewelled cinematography from Mark Lee Ping Bing, one of the unsung wizards of world cinema. There have also been catastrophes in Cannes....
...Alongside covers of the likes of Joni Mitchell (“The River”) to The White Stripes (“In the Cold, Cold Night”), Thorn has penned a “secular carol”, “Joy”....
...Take, for instance, the departure of Carol Bartz as chief executive of Yahoo....
...Yahoo chief executive Carol Bartz said in January that revenue per search was weaker than the company had hoped....
...Last year it chose Google to power its web searches in a snub to Microsoft’s Bing search engine technology. Yahoo had committed to using Bing elsewhere in the world for 10 years....
...Bryn Terfel Carols and Christmas Songs (Deutsche Grammophon) Christmas is a commercial gift horse for record companies, but this recital stoops lower than most....
...The opening salvo in the battle was fired on Wednesday, with news of an alliance between Facebook and Microsoft’s Bing search engine....
...White Christmas (as sung by Bing Bernanke) I’m dreaming of a state pension Just like the ones I used to know Deficits need mending We need to slash spending Retirement ages now must grow....
...As Carol Bartz, chief executive, put it in a blog post: “We’ll be able to focus on the things we do best – being the centre of people’s lives online with properties like our homepage, mail, finance, news...
...Bing....
...As Carol Bartz conceded to The New York Times earlier this month, Yahoo is not a search brand. Yahoo’s users conduct searches on Yahoo because they happen to be there already for other reasons....
...Then, on Wednesday, new chief executive Carol Bartz announced a partnership with the Seattle-based software group in which Yahoo appears to benefit the least among all the search market’s participants....
...The struggling group, concerned with restructuring and rebranding under new boss Carol Bartz, will also shed users to a free-spending Bing....
...Carol Bartz at Yahoo took the same dismissive line last week, but then thought better of it....
...Which does sound better than “powered by Yahoo search, which is in turn powered by Microsoft’s Bing search.”...
...companies. ”This agreement comes with boatloads of value for Yahoo, our users, and the industry, and I believe it establishes the foundation for a new era of internet innovation and development,” said Carol...
...That concern appears to have been eased by the positive reviews for Bing, Microsoft’s new search service....
...Carol Bartz, Yahoo’s CEO, said on Wednesday that that plan did not meet an important Yahoo criterion: that it should have “skin in the game” over the long term....
...Now, with Carol Bartz showing no urgency to enter talks, he appears to be digging in for the long haul. But even with another $10bn behind it, will Bing get Microsoft to where it needs to be?...
...This post is a live blog of a conference call with Carol Bartz and Steve Ballmer, the chief executives of Yahoo and Microsoft. 14.30 BST: That’s it....
...“Microsoft should be given kudos for Bing. I think they’ve done a good job,” she said....
...That setting also would be a logical place for the company to roll out its own anticipated marketing campaign, which CEO Carol Bartz has promised is in the offing....
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