aftershocks

From Florida to Tennessee, and all the way up to Connecticut, people far from Hurricane Ike's destruction nonetheless felt one of its tell-tale aftershocks: gasoline prices that surged overnight - to nearly $5 a gallon in some places.

From Florida to Tennessee, and all the way up to Connecticut, people far from Hurricane Ike's destruction nonetheless felt one of its tell-tale aftershocks: gasoline prices that surged overnight — to nearly $5 a gallon in some places.

Six weeks on from a momentous annual meeting that shook up Yahoo's underperforming board, investors and analysts are asking what happened to the expected aftershocks of change.

Kind of a quiet week in the technology corner of the stock market. That's not so bad, as people can exhale and figure out if the latest Federal Reserve move to cut the Fed Funds rate by .75 points signals the bottom (finally) of the bearish stock market. if so, then buyers will move back into the market and some semblance of sanity can prevail as the big financial houses move to stabilize themselves amidst the aftershocks of the credit and lending crisis.

One tech story that only grows bigger, however, is the Yahoo-Microsoft face-off. On Tuesday, Yahoo's directors made a pitch to...