Links for Tuesday February 1^st, 2011

• What happened to CNN?: What's weird, is that the problems with CNN seem to be quite evident, yet the company continues to ignore them. (via Jon Stokes)

• S.F. Yellow Pages ban to be considered: First-ammendment be damned, I'm all for this.

• IKEA: Flat-pack accounting: Pretty interesting look at the weird way in which Ikea is structured.

• Microsoft Still More Profitable Than Apple — Barely: Pretty amazing:

  "As I suspected, Microsoft was barely able to eek out a profit win over Apple. For the quarter, Microsoft earned $6.63 billion in profit compared to Apple’s $6 billion. Assuming the trends hold, Apple should indeed take the profit crown next quarter."