Electronic Arts early Friday morning announced an extension of its tender offer for shares of Take-Two Interactive Software until May 16, continuing its attempt to acquire the publisher of one of the video-game industry's most valuable products, the "Grand Theft Auto" series.  

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The slowing U.S. economy did not seem to slow down Google, which reported a surprisingly strong surge in first-quarter profit Thursday.  

Here's some news you may have missed last week, based on staff and wire reports. Monday It's a good thing we like it here so much: With all the turmoil in the airline business lately, it's becoming a huge hassle to leave.  

For the past five years, Finnish-born Marten Mickos has worked in Silicon Valley as CEO of MySQL - a once-tiny company that started in Sweden and became one of the most popular suppliers of open-source database software in the world.  

FIVE THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT MARTEN MICKOS 1. After helping run several Scandinavian tech and telecom companies, he was asked by MySQL's co-founders to become chief executive of the Swedish start-up in 2001.  

Let's hope the executives and directors at VeriSign are better at filing their taxes than they report on their stock trades.  

Flickr community members are passionate about the online photo-sharing site now owned by Yahoo, so it's not uncommon for them to stage Flickr protests about various changes to the site by uploading pictures of themselves holding a sign with a slogan on it.  

Tax-evasion charges have been filed against the former chief financial officer of Mercury Interactive, a Silicon Valley company where the once-rampant rigging of stock options led to a $28 million fine.  

When I think of coffee-table books, oversize photographic images of beaches or cities or quilts come to mind.  

Tax evasion charges have been filed against the former chief financial officer of Mercury Interactive, a Silicon Valley company where the once-rampant rigging of stock options led to a $28 million fine - and evidence revealed an e-mail quip about "magic backdating ink.  

Flickr community members are passionate about the online photo-sharing site now owned by Yahoo, so it's not uncommon for them to stage Flickr protests about various changes to the site by uploading pictures of themselves holding a sign with a slogan on it.  

Electronic Arts early Friday morning announced an extension of its tender offer for shares of Take-Two Interactive Software until May 16, continuing its attempt to acquire the publisher of one of the video-game industry's most valuable products, the "Grand Theft Auto" series.  

Electronic Arts early this morning announced an extension of its tender offer for shares of Take-Two Interactive Software until May 16, continuing its attempt to acquire the publisher of one of the video-game industry's most valuable products, the "Grand Theft Auto" series.