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I went to spy on a summer camp for billionaires: The 26th annual gathering of the nation's most powerful executives and their trophy wives in Sun Valley, Idaho, hosted by Herb Allen.
I went to spy on a summer camp for billionaires: The 26th annual gathering of the nation's most powerful executives and their trophy wives in Sun Valley, Idaho, hosted by Herb Allen.
Epicenter | Betsy Schiffman | Posted 06.26.2008 | Business
Yahoo hopes to appease whining shareholders (specifically Carl Icahn) with a dishy letter that discloses the lame terms of Microsoft's recent offer. ...
Reuters | Matt Daily | Posted 06.20.2008 | Business
Microsoft Corp's CEO said the company will not seek to make a spate of other Internet acquisitions in the wake of its failed bid for Yahoo Inc, the Fi...
InfoWorld | Paul Krill | Posted 06.12.2008 | Business
San Francisco - Google believes an independent Yahoo is better for the marketplace than one that becomes part of Microsoft, Google Chairman/CEO Eric ...
AP | MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Posted 06.02.2008 | Business
SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Jerry Yang pushed for an employee severance program that made it more expensive for Microsoft Corp. t...
Mike Bonifer | Posted 05.29.2008 | Business
By playing its aggressive game with Yahoo, Microsoft has dominated the dialogue, and has painted the Yahoo brand as an overvalued poser and an insincere tease.
Margaret Heffernan | Posted 05.07.2008 | Business
The spectacle of Microsoft trying to buy Yahoo feels like watching two dinosaurs trying to mate: painful and irrelevant. It is revealing not in its denouement but in its genesis.
All Things Digital | Kara Swisher | Posted 05.05.2008 | Business
Be careful for what you wish for, Jerry Yang. Because after talking to a dozen Yahoo execs over the weekend after the Microsoft takeover deal cratere...
Huffington Post | Posted 05.04.2008 | Business
The New York Times reports in Monday's paper that Yahoo stockholders will be wondering Monday how low the internet company's stock will go, and how lo...
All Things Digital | Kara Swisher | Posted 05.03.2008 | Business
After a months-long standoff, Microsoft (MSFT) has abandoned its bid for Yahoo (YHOO), people involved in the discussions said today. Microsoft confi...
Silicon Alley Insider | Henry Blodget | Posted 05.02.2008 | Business
The WSJ has confirmed our earlier assumption: Microsoft has been silent because Microsoft and Yahoo are now negotiating seriously about consummating a...
AP | MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Posted 05.02.2008 | Business
SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft Corp. finally dangled a higher takeover bid in front of Yahoo Inc. Friday, hoping to reach a friendly deal after weeks...
Silicon Alley Insider | Henry Blodget | Posted 05.01.2008 | Business
Steve Ballmer held a Town Hall conference call with Microsoft (MSFT) employees today--reported minute-by-minute by our Vas Sridharan. Not surprisingl...
AP | MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Posted 04.30.2008 | Business
SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft Corp.'s directors met Wednesday to consider raising the software maker's $41.9 billion bid for Yahoo Inc. instead of p...
AFP | Glenn Chapman | Posted 04.27.2008 | Business
A Microsoft deadline for Internet service company Yahoo to accept its 44.6 billion-dollar (28.5 billion-euro) acquisition offer expired at midnight Sa...
Silicon Alley Insider | Henry Blodget | Posted 04.24.2008 | Business
Summary: Quarter was mixed--not the blockbuster Wall Street was looking for. FQ3 revenue was slightly below consensus (surprising). Operating income a...
Silicon Alley Insider | Henry Blodget | Posted 04.23.2008 | Business
Microsoft (MSFT) responds to Yahoo's earnings by raising the ante again in one last-ditch, trans-Atlantic attempt to get Yahoo (YHOO) to cave. Speakin...
PaidContent | Joseph Weisenthal | Posted 04.10.2008 | Business
With the Microsoft-Yahoo-Google (NSDQ: GOOG) dance so fluid, analyst reports are going stale pretty fast. Whereas just a couple days ago, most analyst...
AP | MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Posted 04.10.2008 | Business
SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo Inc.'s last-ditch efforts to avoid a takeover by Microsoft Corp. appear to be setting the stage for a dramatic finale feat...
Huffington Post | Posted 04.09.2008 | Business
The New York Times is reporting that News Corporation and Microsoft are in talks to make a joint bid for Yahoo: Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation is ...
Henry Blodget | Posted 04.09.2008 | Business
If Yahoo and Google appear headed toward a full-blown search deal, Microsoft needs to buy Yahoo even more now -- if only because it will then be able to fire Google as Yahoo's search partner.
AP | JESSICA MINTZ | Posted 04.05.2008 | Business
SEATTLE — Microsoft set the clock ticking for Yahoo to accept its $41 billion buyout offer in a letter to the Internet pioneer's board Saturday,...
Silicon Alley Insider | Henry Blodget | Posted 03.27.2008 | Business
One of the next steps in the Microsoft-Yahoo melodrama (MSFT) (YHOO) is for Microsoft to nominate a slate of directors to replace the ones it will try...
Los Angeles Times | Joseph Menn and Jessica Guynn | Posted 03.19.2008 | Business
Yahoo Inc.'s top executives Tuesday began a weeklong campaign to convince major shareholders that the Web powerhouse is worth more than the $42 billio...
Silicon Alley Insider | Henry Blodget | Posted 03.17.2008 | Business
In an interview with Portfolio, Eric Schmidt reiterated Google's absurd fear-mongering about the Microsoft-Yahoo deal (MSFT) (YHOO). His rhetoric wasn...
As Barack Obama began his trip to the Middle East and Europe,...
An ABC-TV outlet in Houston, and now the Houston Chronicle,...
The McCain campaign implied on Wednesday that Barack Obama's commitment...
The Bush...
John McCain made a mistake this evening, which as far as...
I understand why John McCain's campaign...
***UPDATED BELOW*** During a CBS interview on Tuesday, John McCain made...
The New York Times has rejected an op-ed penned by Senator John McCain in response...
BARCELONA, Spain — Christian Bale swept into Barcelona on Wednesday night to attend a...
When Walk Score recently released their ranking of the ten most walkable U.S. cities there was no doubt that folks in places...
Here we go again. Oil prices tumbling "in the steepest four...
According to Psychology Today and referencing the American Journal of Psychiatry,...
Paul Krassner | Posted 07.23.2008 | Business