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Showdown at the Yahoo Corral Coming August 1
Carl Icahn and Microsoft appear to be coordinating an attack on the current Yahoo board with today’s joint announcements by Icahn and a Microsoft stating they are ready to do a major deal with Yahoo....
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Yahoo’s Don Quixote
The Yahoo Microsoft fiasco saga continues as Jerry Yang, in today’s interview with Kara Swisher, seemed to suggest he’d basically go down with the ship. Or perhaps more accurately he’s willing to...
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Microsoft Yahoo: Is $32 now the magic number?
Microsoft’s very well played game to win Yahoo at a bargain price is wrapping up even more favorably than Microsoft planned. Yahoo refused the Icahn MS offer today to buy just pieces of the company,...
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Yahoo Microsoft Boxing Match
Yahoo and Microsoft haven’t been able to agree on very much over the last few months so it now appears fairly likely the battle will head into the shareholder meeting on August 1st. Microsoft hasn’t...
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Ballmer: Yahoo a tactic, not a strategy
Microsoft Chief Steve Ballmer spoke to the Microsofties today about the companies plans. For Yahoo merger followers there was nothign much new as he simply reiterated this point: Related to Google...
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Microsoft BrowseRank to compete with Google PageRank
CNET profiles a new paper showcasing a Microsoft effort to enhance search by looking at *user behavior* as well as the old standby standards that all the major search engines use such as links in to...
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Yahoo Shareholder non-meeting
Today Yahoo Shareholders are meeting in San Jose. Or maybe we should say non-meeting since there are apparentely mostly empty chairs and uneaten pastry in a venue that was to hold 1000. With shares...
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Microsoft to Aquire Yahoo Search for 20 Billion… or not?
While the Times of London is reporting that Microsoft is close to announcing a Yahoo search aquisition at 20 billion with a slew of details suggesting they have a lot of inside information, Venture...
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Microsoft’s Vision of 2019
Thanks to Long Zheng for this post at his blog “istartedsomething.com” about a couple of Microsoft Videos showcasing the MS vision of gadgets and interactions in the future. The shorter video is neat...
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Thank you Nathan Myhrvold!
I’ve detailed some of my misadventures at Real Climate.org, the sometimes insightful but usually activism-masquerading-as science water cooler for folks who buy the notion that human-caused global...
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