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• Free mapping services compared

  The summer travel season has arrived, and with gas prices going down, it's time to plan a road trip.For a Memorial Day weekend trip to Arizona , I checked four free services that provide driving directions -- Google , Yahoo , AOL 's MapQuest and Microsof 5/31/12 Read more »

• Yahoo seeks to redefine online searches with Axis

  Joining the battle to redefine Internet search, Yahoo is taking aim with a new browser enhancement it calls "Axis."It alters browsers made by other companies to display search results in a more convenient and visual format.The troubled Internet company Y   Read more »

• Yahoo to sell half of its Alibaba stake for $7.1B

  (AP) -- Yahoo has agreed to sell half of its 40 percent stake in Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba for about $7.1 billion.The deal will see Alibaba Group buying back the stake from Yahoo Inc. for $6.3 billion cash and up to $800 million of Alibaba prefe   Read more »

• Yahoo chief executive who quit has cancer

  Yahoo! Inc. 's former chief executive Scott Thompson told board members before he left that he has been diagnosed with thyroid cancer, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.Thompson made the disclosure as he was facing pressure to leave from   Read more »

• Revolving door: Yahoo ushers out another CEO

  Yahoo still has credibility issues, even after casting aside CEO Scott Thompson because his official biography included a college degree that he never received.The troubled Internet company's next challenge will be convincing its restless shareholders an   Read more »

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• Stocks to Watch: Stocks to watch Friday: Sara Lee, Vishay

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• Indications: Stock futures slide ahead of May payrolls

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• London Markets: FTSE 100 drops after manufacturing data

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• Greenlight Capital Bets Big On Apple And General Motors, Drops Yahoo

  Greenlight Capital is run by well-known value investor David Einhorn (author of "Fooling all of the People some of the Time"). The firm began in 1996 with $900k under management and has grown to over $4 billion dollars, compounding at over 22% annually. Ei 5:08 AM from Seeking Alpha Read more »

• Europe Markets: Europe stocks choppy ahead of U.S. payrolls

  Comments Tweet Share Digg Yahoo! Buzz MySpace del.icio.us Reddit LinkedIn Fark StumbleUpon Newsvine new Portfolio Relevance LEARN MORE Want to see how this story relates to your portfolio? Just add items to create a portfolio now: X Add STOXX Europe 600 Index 4:16 AM from MarketWatch Read more »