Reuters - Yahoo Inc CEO Jerry Yang ordered
up a draft press release rejecting a Microsoft Corp takeover
bid months before January's unsolicited bid, company documents
unsealed on Monday show.
AP - Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Jerry Yang pushed for an employee severance program that made it more expensive for Microsoft Corp. to engineer a takeover even after an outside consultant questioned the plan's generous benefits, according to previously sealed documents in a shareholder lawsuit against Yahoo.
Reuters - Yahoo Inc executives dismissed a
search-advertising deal with Google due to antitrust concerns,
one day before Microsoft Corp made its takeover offer earlier
this year, according to court documents made public on Monday.
PC World - If you use Safari on Windows, make sure you apply this workaround fix or stop using Apple’s browser in the face of a critical ‘blended’ threat. -- read full article
Sun, 01 Jun 2008 21:35:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
PC World - Microsoft is disputing that its CardSpace authentication management technology can be hacked despite a research paper that... -- read full article
Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:10:19 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
AP - In a bid to boost its Web search traffic, Microsoft Corp. on Monday announced a deal that will make its Live Search the default on Hewlett-Packard Co. personal computers shipped in the U.S. and Canada, starting in January. -- read full article
Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:09:01 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
AP - A Delaware judge has unsealed court documents containing new details about Yahoo Inc.'s efforts to ward off Microsoft Corp.'s unsolicited bid to buy the Internet pioneer. -- read full article
Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:40:13 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
PC World - Microsoft is warning that a recently reported Safari browser attack can be combined with another Windows flaw to run... -- read full article
Sun, 01 Jun 2008 03:00:09 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Members of a Brazilian technical committee said the process that led to OOXML's ratification was flawed, in part because not all participants were given enough time to make their views heard. -- read full article
Fri, 30 May 2008 19:47:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Unless the default Safari download location is changed, an attacker could exploit the vulnerability by tricking a user into visiting a maliciously crafted Web site, Microsoft said. -- read full article
Fri, 30 May 2008 23:48:26 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
PC World - The British Library's ongoing projects to make thousands of books available digitally won't slow down despite the end of a... -- read full article
Fri, 30 May 2008 11:40:11 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
AP - Brazil and India have appealed a decision to make Microsoft's Office Open XML format an internationally recognized standard for electronic documents. -- read full article
Fri, 30 May 2008 14:02:12 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
InfoWorld - Microsoft plans to demonstrate integration Friday between its new Silveright browser plug-in technology for rich Internet applications and the Ruby on Rails Web framework. -- read full article
Fri, 30 May 2008 14:35:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
NewsFactor - In the world of technology, success is linked to perceptions. Microsoft demonstrated its multi-touch technology in a Windows 7 demo at the D: All Things Digital conference this week, and the software giant may have hoped to overcome the perception that Apple owns touchscreen interfaces. Instead, some observers are wondering if Microsoft is making the same mistakes that now plague Windows Vista. -- read full article
Fri, 30 May 2008 15:02:56 GMT - Yahoo! News: Microsoft
