Reuters - Microsoft Corp sees tens of
millions of corporate e-mail accounts moving to its data
centers over the next five years, shifting to a business model
that may thin profit margins but generate more revenue.
AP - Wall Street ended mixed Monday after weakness in the technology sector punctured some of the market's enthusiasm over a report that suggested the economy could still be growing.
NewsFactor - A boardroom showdown between Yahoo directors and billionaire investor Carl Icahn may turn out to be irrelevant if Microsoft's latest move succeeds. That could see Microsoft and Yahoo join forces against Google. -- read full article
Mon, 19 May 2008 14:39:34 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
PC World - Customers using Microsoft's SharePoint enterprise portal can now get deployment help if they subscribe to the Software... -- read full article
Mon, 19 May 2008 17:00:15 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The company is now looking to make "small, targeted acquisitions" in search and advertising, and potentially in regional markets or "key geographies." -- read full article
Mon, 19 May 2008 17:25:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Most of Symantec's enterprise customers continue to run their systems on the older Windows XP operating system because "they're not yet comfortable with Vista." -- read full article
Mon, 19 May 2008 19:00:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
TechWeb - InformationWeek - A man upset with the Hungarian government's decision to sign a software and training deal with Microsoft threw three eggs at CEO Steve Ballmer -- and missed. -- read full article
Mon, 19 May 2008 20:11:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Together, Microsoft and Yahoo would control about 31% of the search market, compared with Google's 60%, according to comScore. -- read full article
Mon, 19 May 2008 21:13:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
AFP - With Yahoo facing pressure from a corporate raider, the Internet giant has reopened discussions on a tie-up with Microsoft, but for a new deal that would probably not be an outright takeover.
Investor's Business Daily - Microsoft's (NasdaqGS:MSFT - News) search to challenge Google (NasdaqGS:GOOG - News) for a bigger share of the multibillion dollar online ad market may be limited to an alliance with Yahoo (NasdaqGS:YHOO - News). -- read full article
Mon, 19 May 2008 22:33:22 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
AP - Just two weeks after breaking off merger talks, Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. have been pulled back to the bargaining table by their fears about what might happen if they don't work out a deal.
Reuters - Microsoft Corp has proposed to buy Yahoo
Inc's search business and take a minority stake in the Web
pioneer, stopping short of a full-out merger, a person familiar
with the discussions said on Monday.
AFP - Microsoft said Sunday it was considering some kind of new deal with Yahoo that would not involve a new takeover bid, two weeks after withdrawing its offer to acquire the struggling Internet pioneer.