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July 2008
- After Yahoo, Microsoft Amps Up Search Effort
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Jul 24, 08 4:21 PM CDT
  
  CEO Steve Ballmer is spinning Microsoft’s failure to acquire Yahoo expertly, telling analysts today that, unburdened by the search giant, the company can be more frisky and adaptable in its fight with nemesis Google, the Wall Street Journal reports. Actions might speak louder than words, though: Microsoft announced yesterday it would give the leader of its online efforts the boot, and restructure. More »
  
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  Google • Microsoft • Yahoo • mergers and acquisitions • search engine • Steve Ballmer
- An Independent Yahoo Is Hard to Imagine
  
  newser | BusinessWeek | Jul 23, 08 12:09 PM CDT
  
  Yahoo’s earnings report yesterday didn’t portend an immediate turnaround, Catherine Holahan writes in BusinessWeek , meaning the company must do something to meet the “grandiose claims” it made in rejecting Microsoft’s bid. Some still see Yahoo ultimately taking that path, and expanding its deal with Google is another option that might justify Yahoo standing firm on its third-quarter and yearly forecasts. More »
  
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  Google • Microsoft • Yahoo • Carl Icahn • search engine
- Deal Puts Icahn on Yahoo Board
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Jul 21, 08 7:27 AM CDT
  
  Yahoo will add two seats to its board of directors and put Carl Icahn in one of them, reports the Wall Street Journal, in a deal that ends Icahn’s proxy fight. Eight of Yahoo’s current board members, including CEO Jerry Yang, will keep their seats, while a ninth will resign. The board will select two members of Icahn’s proxy slate to fill his seat, and the newly created one. More »
  
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  Yahoo • Jerry Yang • Carl Icahn • proxy battle • board of directors
- Yahoo Takes Icahn Fight to Homepage
  
  newser | PC World | Jul 19, 08 12:22 PM CDT
  
  A new button on Yahoo's homepage links users to the company's case against activist investor Carl Icahn, PC World reports. Icahn is seeking to unseat Yahoo's board at its Aug. 1 general meeting. The page links to voting forms and leaves shareholders in no doubt how the company thinks they should vote: A purple banner carries the Icahn quote, "It's hard to understand these technology companies." More »
  
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  Yahoo • Jerry Yang • Carl Icahn • shareholders • proxy battle • takeover bid
- Microsoft Meets With AOL to Explore Possible Deal
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Jul 16, 08 3:11 PM CDT
  
  Microsoft will sit down today with executives from Time Warner's AOL to explore a joint venture between the two companies, reports the Wall Street Journal. The software giant is looking for alternatives to its failed Yahoo buyout. Microsoft and Time Warner have been considering a deal for months, though no specifics have been ironed out. Yahoo, meanwhile, is pursuing its own talks with AOL as it fights off a hostile takeover attempt led by Carl Icahn. More »
  
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  Microsoft • Yahoo • AOL • Time Warner
- Sparks Fly as Yahoo, Microsoft Take to Hill
  
  newser | Los Angeles Times | Jul 16, 08 11:08 AM CDT
  
  Congressional hearings on Yahoo's proposed ad deal with Google got a little heated yesterday, with a Microsoft lawyer testifying that Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang recently admitted, in a private meeting, that the pact would reduce competition, the Los Angeles Times reports. Yahoo’s general counsel said he recalled no such remarks at the meeting, and a spokesman later swatted the charge aside. More »
  
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  Google • Microsoft • Yahoo • Jerry Yang • antitrust
- It's Google's Turn on the Hot Seat
  
  newser | Seattle Times | Jul 14, 08 2:10 PM CDT
  
  You have to forgive Microsoft if it indulges in some schadenfreude today, writes Brier Dudley of the Seattle Times. Archrival Google is facing a peril that’s all too familiar in Redmond. Steve Ballmer can sit back tomorrow as Google’s top execs go before the Senate subcommittee on antitrust, secure in the knowledge that he helped put them there. More »
  
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  Google • Microsoft • Congress • Yahoo • Steve Ballmer • antitrust
- Yahoo Snubs Microsoft-Icahn Takeover Bid
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Jul 13, 08 6:20 AM CDT
  
  Yahoo has rejected another takeover push, this time from Microsoft and investor Carl Icahn, the Wall Street Journal reports. The bidders gave the Internet giant less than 24 hours to decide on an offer that would sell its search component to Microsoft and the rest of the company to Icahn in a move that would have required Yahoo to dump its current board. More »
  
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  Microsoft • Yahoo • Carl Icahn • takeover bid • Roy Bostock
- Yang Slams 'Destabilizing' Microsoft Plan
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Jul 9, 08 8:49 AM CDT
  
  Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang launched a fresh offensive in the Yahoo-Microsoft war of words yesterday, reports the Wall Street Journal . Microsoft has said it would be interested in reopening merger talks if Yahoo's current board was replaced—but the Yahoo co-founder accuses the company of tactics to destabilize Yahoo without any real interest in cutting a deal. More »
  
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  Microsoft • Yahoo • Jerry Yang • Carl Icahn • proxy battle • takeover bid
- Online Spaces Snub Free Speech That Offends
  
  newser | Associated Press | Jul 7, 08 6:52 PM CDT
  
  A variety of websites are deleting postings that could offend, and with full legal protection—sparking debate about whether free speech exists online. Case in point: an image of a young smoker posted on Yahoo's photo service. It was cut for promoting underage smoking, but the photographer calls it a comment on Romanian street life. "I never thought of it as a photo of a smoking kid," he said. More »
  
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  Internet • Yahoo • Facebook • MySpace • free speech • Flickr • Pearl Jam • LiveJournal
- Oil Drops, but Rally Fades
  
  newser | MarketWatch | Jul 7, 08 3:38 PM CDT
  
  The markets saw modest losses today after a rally spurred by a drop in crude prices sputtered over capital concerns at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, MarketWatch reports. The Dow fell 56.58 to 11,231.96, the Nasdaq dropped 2.06 to 2,243.32, and the S&P 500 fell 10.59 to 1,252.31. More »
  
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  Microsoft • Yahoo • S&P 500 • Nasdaq • oil price • Dow Jones Industrial Average • Fannie Mae • Freddie Mac • financial stocks
- Icahn: Microsoft Will Only Negotiate With Me
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Jul 7, 08 10:04 AM CDT
  
  Carl Icahn says Microsoft is still in the hunt to acquire Yahoo, but only if the board is replaced, the Wall Street Journal reports. Icahn says Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer “made it abundantly clear” to him that he wouldn’t talk with Yahoo’s current board, which he fears will run the company into the ground before antitrust authorities agree to a merger. More »
  
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  Microsoft • Yahoo • mergers and acquisitions • Carl Icahn • Steve Ballmer
- Adobe Lets Web Spiders Snag Animation
  
  newser | MIT Technology Review | Jul 3, 08 1:30 PM CDT
  
  For years, web developers have faced a tough choice: Make their pages pretty with Flash animations, or optimize for search engines? Now, Flash maker Adobe has tried to make that choice easier, by giving Google and Yahoo the software to read and index Flash files. “For end users, they're going to see a lot more results, and a lot better results,” says Flash’s project manager. More »
  
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  Internet • Google • Yahoo • search engine • Adobe • websites • Flash
- Yahoo Looks to Time Warner, News Corp.
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Jul 3, 08 11:49 AM CDT
  
  Yahoo—back in the sights of Microsoft—is trying to keep its fate in its own hands, launching talks with potential partners, the Wall Street Journal reports. The Internet company reopened talks with Time Warner about a deal that would make AOL part of Yahoo and give Time Warner a minority interest in the new venture; Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. is also in the mix. More »
  
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  Google • Microsoft • Yahoo • mergers and acquisitions • Time Warner
- Feds Probing Google-Yahoo Deal
  
  newser | Washington Post | Jul 2, 08 9:24 AM CDT
  
  Google’s agreement to provide Yahoo with advertising for some of its searches in the US and Canada has prompted the Justice Department to launch a formal antitrust investigation into the deal, the Washington Post reports. "They don't do it without having identified significant issues," one lawyer said of the action, which goes beyond the voluntary review the search giant expected. More »
  
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  Google • Microsoft • Yahoo • antitrust • Justice Department
- Microsoft Preps a New Run at Yahoo
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Jul 2, 08 8:18 AM CDT
  
  Microsoft is back in pursuit of Yahoo, the Wall Street Journal reports, with the company in talks with both News Corp. and Time Warner as potential partners for a restructured deal to buy the search giant . Yahoo has been in Microsoft’s sights for nearly six months, but initial efforts to buy the entire company collapsed, and Microsoft has since been looking instead to acquire the search business and spin off the rest. More »
  
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  Google • Microsoft • Yahoo • Carl Icahn • takeover bid
June 2008
- Yahoo's Defensive Stance: Microsoft 'Inconsistent' in Bid
  
  newser | MarketWatch | Jun 30, 08 4:34 PM CDT
  
  As it tries to fend off investor Carl Icahn's attempt to replace its board of directors, Yahoo today presented its version of buyout negotiations with Microsoft to shareholders, MarketWatch reports. Yahoo portrayed Microsoft as “unresponsive, inconsistent,” and loose on logistic details of the proposed merger. "The record casts doubt on whether Microsoft was ever committed to a whole company acquisition," its report said. More »
  
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  Microsoft • Yahoo • Carl Icahn • proxy battle • takeover bid
- Angry Worker Blasts Yahoo in Email
  
  newser | Fortune Magazine | Jun 27, 08 8:05 PM CDT
  
  A sarcastic Yahoo employee slammed the company in an email sent to Fortune today, taking aim at futile executives and lousy decision-making. In the wake of Yahoo's latest shakeup, "things could not be better," the email says: True, past "reorgs" were sparked by pointless executive shifts, but eight execs really did quit this week to be "with their families," and "as for the Google deal, HOORRAY!" More »
  
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  Google • Microsoft • Yahoo • mergers and acquisitions • Fortune
- Yahoo Regroups, Again
  
  newser | New York Times | Jun 27, 08 8:52 AM CDT
  
  Reeling after Microsoft’s failed takeover bid and bracing for a fight with financier Carl Icahn over board control, struggling Yahoo is once again restructuring itself, the New York Times reports. “Any organization change is disruptive,” said Yahoo’s president, but “the flip side of disruption is the opportunity for renewed growth.” But analysts say it’s all talk. “It changes nothing,” says one. More »
  
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  Internet • Microsoft • Yahoo • restructuring • Susan Decker
- When Is A Facebook Friend Just A Friend?
  
  newser | MIT Technology Review | Jun 27, 08 8:12 AM CDT
  
  There’s a movement among some social Web services, from MySpace and Yahoo to Plaxo, to let users share data, the MIT Technology Review reports. Take Google’s new Friend Connect, a service that lets users transport profiles and connections among sites. But Facebook, for one, is swimming against the tide, working to control its users’ data and arguing that control protects their privacy. More »
  
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  Google • Yahoo • Facebook • social networking • MySpace • privacy • Friend Connect • Plaxo

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