TechWeb - InformationWeek - The company's complaints may have as much to do with privacy and competition as they do with its own strategic interests in Yahoo's search business. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - The Google Elections Video Search gadget uses speech recognition to transcribed and index speeches by politicians and others. -- read full article
Reuters - A top Microsoft Corp executive said
Yahoo Inc's advertising search partnership with Google Inc
would leave only one major player in the Internet search
business, and said he had been told as much by Yahoo's own
chief executive last month.
Reuters - A Yahoo Inc executive
accused Microsoft Corp of teaming up with activist
investor Carl Icahn to force a "fire sale" price for Yahoo's
search business.
Reuters - Microsoft Corp reports
quarterly results this week, looking to ease the concerns of
investors about slower growth at its Windows business and prove
that its pursuit of Yahoo Inc is not a distraction.
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Under Icahn's plan, Microsoft also would pay billions of dollars to become the exclusive search provider on all Yahoo sites for a term of 5 years. -- read full article
TechWeb - InformationWeek - By warning users of a hack on a Net neutrality opponent's Web site, Google was accused of trying to silence critics of a policy it supports. -- read full article
PC World - Microsoft said its proposal made Friday to purchase Yahoo's search business was actually the idea of Yahoo Chairman Roy... -- read full article
Investor's Business Daily - The ongoing saga among activist investor Carl Icahn, Yahoo and Microsoft hit another flash point 14 Monday, two days after the portal rejected yet another Microsoft offer to buy its search business. -- read full article
Reuters - Billionaire investor Carl Icahn filed
a proxy on Monday to nominate a slate of nine directors to
replace Yahoo Inc's board and chief executive after
the Internet company rejected Microsoft Corp's latest
proposal to buy its search business.
AP - After more than five months of sparring, the battle for control of Yahoo Inc. has turned into a bare-knuckles brawl with a whiff of desperation hanging over all the key combatants.
Reuters - Microsoft Corp and
billionaire investor Carl Icahn's joint proposal for Yahoo Inc
, which was rejected on Saturday, included $2.3 billion
in guaranteed annual revenue from search advertising for five
years, people familiar with the matter said on Sunday.
AP - Yahoo Inc. has rejected Microsoft's latest attempt to buy its online search operations in a "take or leave it" proposal that Yahoo said would have dismantled its Internet franchise.
Reuters - Yahoo Inc on Saturday rejected a
proposal to sell its search business to Microsoft Corp and hand
over the remainder of the company to activist investor Carl
Icahn.
AP - Yahoo Inc. has rejected Microsoft's latest attempt to buy its online search operations in a "take or leave it" proposal that Yahoo said would have dismantled its Internet franchise.
