Daily Debrief: Yahoo's winding road
Cnet (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
On Tuesday's Daily Debrief, CNET News' Microsoft-Yahoo watcher Dawn Kawamoto talks with Dan Farber about what's happened to Yahoo since the shareholder meeting.
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Time Warner’s AOL Sales Plummet - Gets Split into Two - Microsoft & Yahoo Look Interested!
WATblog (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
For months, Time Warner has been exploring options for the two sides of America OnLine (AOL), including whether to sell or combine the businesses in a partnership with other companies. However, the discussions have been held back by uncertainty about how revenue and liabilities would be split between the two sides, which complicated putting a value to the businesses.
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Oil isn't as profitable as you might think
The Opinionated Bastard (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
Out of Exxon, Microsoft, Apple, and Intel, who has the greatest profit margins? Microsoft, at 29%. Exxon is the least profitable of those three companies. Don't take my word for it: Yahoo Finance Key Statistics: Intel Yahoo Finance Key Statistics: Microsoft Yahoo Finance Key Statistics: Apple Yahoo Finance Key Statistics: Exxon/Mobil Look for "Profit Margin". Obama is going to give everyone $1000...
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Microsoft-Yahoo! Merger Drama: A Timeline
Appscout.com (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
Over the past few months, the possible merger between Yahoo! and Microsoft has drawn a lot of media attention. As Yahoo! has its shareholders meeting today, we have gathered together our complete coverage of the drama between the Internet company and the software giant from the initial bid by Micorsoft to yesterday's story on Icahn skipping out on the meeting to avoid a media circus.
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Another Shareholder Picks on Yahoo over Failed Microsoft Deal
SEOCentro - SEO News (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
Adding to the list of Yahoo shareholders who are " furious " about the failed Microsoft-Yahoo deal is billionaire investor T. Boone Pickens who has to sell his Yahoo shares at a loss because he was tired of waiting for the deal to materialize. Interestingly, Mr. Pickens bought his share last May with the hopes that he would gain from the stock purchase once Microsoft acquires Yahoo at the original...
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San Jose Mercury News, Calif., In Hindsight Column: Is the Microsoft-Yahoo Saga Finally Over?
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 07/27/2008
By Frank Michael Russell, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Jul. 27--Here's some news you may have missed last week, based on staff and wire reports.
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Baidu Reports Positive Second Quarter
Revenue Source (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
While that Microsoft-Yahoo business stole the show for a while, Baidu's found its way into the spotlight again. The Chinese search engine...
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Microsoft-Yahoo deal: The Obama factor ending it?
Brier Dudley's blog (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Interesting tidbit from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's presentation at today's analyst meeting; The Yahoo deal made sense if the regulatory reviews could be done before the federal administration changed. Ballmer didn't say that the current administration is more sympathetic to Microsoft than the next one will be, although of course it was under the Bush adminstration that Microsoft's U.S. antitrust...
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Baidu Reports Positive Second Quarter
WebPro News (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
While that Microsoft-Yahoo business stole the show for a while, Baidu's found its way into the spotlight again. The Chinese search engine company had an admirable second quarter, beating analysts' estimates in some important respects. read more
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Microsoft - Trouble In Paradise?
The Blade (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
It makes one wonder. Should Bill Gates come back to steer the good ship Microsoft? Maybe Microsoft needs a Jerry Yang of Yahoo fame to help out. No matter what your opinion of Microsoft might be, the once mighty corporation is feeling the sting of the Microsoft - Yahoo deal gone sour. In fact we may see more employees leaving the Redmond software company as the head of Windows tries to regain its...
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John Dvorak's Second Opinion: Microsoft and the Yahoo patent portfolio
Market Watch (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
The latest thinking in the Silicon Valley scene regarding the Microsoft-Yahoo-Carl Icahn Saga, which is not going away, might be about some sort of killer patent owned by Yahoo. Right now financial researchers everywhere are trying to figure out what exactly the patent is.
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Leo Laporte - The Tech Guy 475
KFI Tech Guy (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
The Tech Guy for Sunday 19 July 2008 - Show 475 Host : Leo Laporte E3 and social gaming, Microsoft-Yahoo re-do, iPhone activation, Scott Wilkinson on Blu-ray, and your calls. For detailed show notes, visit techguylabs.com . Bandwidth for the Tech Guy podcast is provided by DSL Extreme Running time: 2:00:00
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Yahoo Saga: Microsoft Investors Weigh In
Business Week (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
In the Microsoft-Yahoo minuet, Yahoo investors, including Carl Icahn, have gotten most of the attention. What about Microsoft shareholders'.
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What Yahoo's Icahn deal means for Microsoft
Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Yahoo's truce with Carl Icahn, announced this morning, heads off a looming proxy fight with the billionaire investor. But at first glance, it doesn't appear to necessarily close the door on a Microsoft-Yahoo deal down the road. Particularly notable in the news release are Icahn's comments about the possibility of future transactions.
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Microsoft-Yahoo deal seen adrift
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Yahoo will appoint activist investor Carl Icahn and two of his nominees to its board, settling a proxy battle and making an immediate transaction with Microsoft less likely.
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Microsoft Bid for Yahoo Withdrawn
mbeteta | 05/04/2008
Microsoft has officially withdrawn its bid to acquire Yahoo in a letter that Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer sent today to Yahoo’s Jerry Yang. In a final meeting that took place today between Jerry Yang and David Filo from Yahoo and Steve Ballmer and Steve Johnson from Microsoft, Yahoo stated that the lowest price they would accept was $37 per share and Microsoft reported that they would not go over
