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November 2008
- $20B Yahoo Search Deal 'Total Fiction': Exec
  
  All Things Digital | Nov 30, 08 8:03 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - A report that Microsoft is buying Yahoo's search business and giving two Internet execs a 30% share is "total fiction," one of the execs tells Kara Swisher at AllThingsDigital. Swisher agrees that the $20 billion deal, reported by the London Times , is likely non-existent. After all, board member Carl Icahn would know about it—and his recent purchase of nearly seven million Yahoo shares "would smack of insider trading" if the purchase went through. More »
- Ballmer Quashes Yahoo Bid Rumors; Open to Partnership
  
  CNET | Nov 19, 08 12:42 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Steve Ballmer quashed the rumor that Microsoft would make another offer to buy Yahoo now that Jerry Yang has quit as CEO, CNET reports. “We are done with all acquisition discussions with Yahoo,” the chief executive said today. “We did our best; we’ve moved on.” More »
- Yang's Departure Gives Microsoft New Opening
  
  BusinessWeek | Nov 18, 08 9:54 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - Investors are hoping Jerry Yang’s departure will lead to renewed talks with Microsoft, BusinessWeek reports. “This is probably the beginning of the end for Yahoo,” said one. “Microsoft will probably come back with an offer.” Microsoft has repeatedly denied interest in reviving a deal, but Yang’s departure “clears the path,” one analyst said. “Yahoo can free up its strategic alternatives.” More »
October 2008
- Google, Yahoo May Ditch Talks on Ad Alliance
  
  Wall Street Journal | Oct 31, 08 9:03 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Google and Yahoo's potential partnership is on the rocks. The two sides are still searching for a middle ground on an advertising deal, but both sides could walk away from the talks as early as next week, the Wall Street Journal reports. The main stumbling block is a consent decree, suggested by the Department of Justice, that would subject the companies’ compliance to constant oversight by a judge. More »
September 2008
- Yahoo Board OKs New Round of AOL Talks
  
  Financial Times (UK) | Sep 24, 08 1:13 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - A Yahoo board of directors now stocked with allies of activist investor Carl Icahn cleared the way yesterday for reigniting talks on combining with AOL, the Financial Times reports. Time Warner’s chief is eager to decide AOL’s future “fairly soon,” but is hoping Microsoft will join any deal. Icahn says Yahoo also has “to do something with Microsoft, or Google is going to kill them.” More »
- Yahoo's Next Move: Third-Party Content
  
  San Francisco Chronicle | Sep 12, 08 12:04 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - After struggling through months of takeover battles and sagging stock prices, Yahoo says it’s working to become a web destination for users rather than simply a jumping-off point, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. It plans to add third-party content and newly developed applications on a new Yahoo home page, allowing users to access sites like Netflix without leaving. More »
July 2008
- An Independent Yahoo Is Hard to Imagine
  
  BusinessWeek | Jul 23, 08 12:09 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - 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 »
- Deal Puts Icahn on Yahoo Board
  
  Wall Street Journal | Jul 21, 08 7:27 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - 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 »
- Yahoo Takes Icahn Fight to Homepage
  
  PC World | Jul 19, 08 12:22 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - 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 »
- Microsoft Meets With AOL to Explore Possible Deal
  
  Wall Street Journal | Jul 16, 08 3:11 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - 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 »
- Sparks Fly as Yahoo, Microsoft Take to Hill
  
  Los Angeles Times | Jul 16, 08 11:08 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - 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 »
- It's Google's Turn on the Hot Seat
  
  Seattle Times | Jul 14, 08 2:10 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - 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 »
- Yahoo Snubs Microsoft-Icahn Takeover Bid
  
  Wall Street Journal | Jul 13, 08 6:20 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - 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 »
- Yang Slams 'Destabilizing' Microsoft Plan
  
  Wall Street Journal | Jul 9, 08 8:49 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - 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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