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Digital Trends - Most Recent News (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
On Tuesday Microsoft’s general counsel, Brad Smith, was talking to a Congressional hearing about anti-trust. But he wasn’t on the defensive. Instead he was speaking about the Yahoo-Google ad deal. It would, he claimed, damage the market. "Never before in the history of advertising has one company been in the position to control prices on up to 90 percent of advertising in a single medium," Smith said....
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The Navel of the Internet (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
C-Span has the archived video of the Conyers hearing on Google’s proposed ad deal with Yahoo: House Judiciary Committee Hearing on Internet Competition Recently, a number of transactions and potential transactions have raised anti-competitive and privacy concerns in the field of online advertising, online search, and web platform interoperability. Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) chairs a House Judiciary [...]...
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Gizmodo (Free subscription) | 07/13/2008
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Are you sitting down? More bad news from the iPhone 3G iPocalypse: Steve Wozniak, creator of the Apple II and a hero of many geeks the world over, may have cut in line at the Westfield Valley Fair...
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Valleywag (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
After avoiding the viciously loquacious Kara Swisher for a year — even at her big tech conference — normally mellow Yahoo founder Jerry Yang gave the AllThingsD reporter an earful. Yang... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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Go West (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
Is it just me, or is the most interesting and amusing bit of the most recent Yahoo-Microsoft news that Yahoo (YHOO) remains willing to sell to Microsoft (MSFT) for $33 per share? A short review of the facts. Some time while Terry Semel still was CEO of Yahoo, Microsoft offered to buy the company in the neighborhood [...]
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Techdirt (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
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With the positively yawn-inducing news over the weekend that Yahoo had rejected yet another offer from Microsoft, Joel West is reminding people that big acquisitions almost never make sense and very often destroy value. As an example, he points to the news that AMD is writing down $880 million on its acquisition of ATI only 8 months after it already wrote down $1.6 billion. That's $2.5 billion wiped...
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The Guardian Technology blog (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
Yahoo's board declined a new search deal over the weekend, but Carl Icahn's strategy seems to involve replacing Yahoo's current board
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The Liberal Blog Network (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
US anti-trust regulators have opened an investigation into Yahoo's search advertising partnership with Google to examine if the $800m (£403m) a year deal restricts competition in the market. Justice Department investigators behind the anti-trust probe will take evidence from Google, Yahoo and other large companies in the internet and media sectors, according to a report in today's Washington Post....
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Free Internet Press (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
The U.S. Justice Department has opened a formal antitrust investigation into a deal struck last month that would allow Internet titan Google to provide some search advertising for Yahoo, according to sources familiar with the inquiry. Investigators are planning to demand documents not only from Google and Yahoo, but also from other large companies in the Internet and media industries, said the sources,...
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Marksonland (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Just in case you wondered, from their site, here's Yahoo's mission statement: Yahoo! powers and delights our communities of users, advertisers, and publishers - all of us united in creating indispensable experiences, and fueled by trust. Wow. This might be...
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Entrepreneur Watch (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
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CNET gives an overview of the issues relating to the DOJ review of the Google/Yahoo deal. Fine. But can we say, snowball's chance at Burning Man? Those are the odds of DOJ nixing the deal. I did a lot of...
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AterSlash (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
…so Bush sics the Anti-trust Act on them? Next thing the SEC will “investigate” Larry Page for “suspected” securities violations, and Eric Schmidt will be investigate on his “citizenship” revocation. You can’t investigate Enron or Exxon, and let Microsoft scot-free, but investigate Google? This corrupt, rotten-to-the-core regime puts 2nd world regimes in South America and i guess Venezuala regime is...
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WATblog (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
The US Department of Justice plans to launch a formal antitrust investigation on the Yahoo-Google advertising deal, which was signed last month. According to the deal, Google will have its advertising displayed on search queries on Yahoo's sites, which would earn Yahoo upto $800 million a year for four years.
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Today's Tribune-Review (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Yahoo Inc. shares rose more than 5 percent Wednesday as The Wall Street Journal reported Microsoft Corp. has talked to other media companies about teaming up to buy Yahoo's search business.
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Hispanic Business Magazine (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
SAN FRANCISCO (dpa) - Microsoft and Yahoo are still actively pursuing a deal, but current discussions involve the participation of partners like News Corp and Time Warner that could lead to the break-up of Yahoo, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday....
