Google is in the news again! This is totally unconfirmed at the moment but The Inquirer claims that according to it’s “well placed sources“, Google is in the process of acquiring Valve any moment now.

It is quite obvious that Google’s interest in Valve, an entertainment software and technology company based in Bellevue, Washington is primarily for it’s content distribution platform, Steam which is the best among the ones that are available currently. Valve’s current portfolio includes Half-Life 2, Counter-Strike, Day of Defeat, Team Fortress, and Portal which accounts for over 20 million retail units in sales. It is also known that Valve games account for over 80% of the PC online action market.

Is Google getting into gaming? That is something to be debated upon. However, it will do Valve a lot of good and suppress any kind of competition that they may possibly face.

Update: Valve says Google isn’t buying the company. The news is a complete fabrication

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One of our earlier posts, How To Delete A Hotmail Or Windows Live Account brought in a lot of readers and gave us the impression that a lot of people are finding it difficult in closing email accounts. Here next in the series we give you directions to close a Yahoo! account.

Before you decide to close your Yahoo! account, read the below para carefully.

By deleting your Yahoo! account, you will lose access to all personalized areas of Yahoo! such as your GeoCities web page, Mail account, Groups, Auctions, Fantasy Sports, Games, Profiles, Address Book, Briefcase, Portfolio, Personals, and any other areas of Yahoo! that can only be accessed with your Yahoo! ID and password.

Also note that people will still be able to send messages to your closed Yahoo! Mail account for 90 days without getting a delivery error while you will not be able to log in to your account to see them. What you can do however is to set a Vacation Response so that you can direct people to your new mail id. To set this up, follow these steps:

1. Log into Yahoo! Mail and click the “Mail Options” link in the upper-right corner of the page.
2. Click on “Vacation Response.”
3. Fill in the required information and click on the “Turn Auto-Response On” button.

Now that this is done, follow these steps to Delete Your Yahoo! or Yahoo! Mail Account:

1. Visit the Terminating Your Yahoo! Account page.
2. Type your password.
3. Click Terminate this Account.

Quoting Alex’s example here,

Make sure you modify all your online accounts that reference that email address. You don’t want important account emails to go to that address should someone else down the line reopen that address.

For example, John Smith opens jsmith at yahoo dot com. Then he uses that address to open an online bank account. He then closes that email address. Now Jack Smith reopens the jsmith Yahoo account. Now here’s getting John’s residual messages.

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