Yahoo! Restructuring, Jorgensen Out
UPDATE: CNBC Is reporting that Blake Jorgensen is leaving Yahoo! For more on the restructuring of the company, click here. The stock is rising on th...
UPDATE: CNBC Is reporting that Blake Jorgensen is leaving Yahoo! For more on the restructuring of the company, click here. The stock is rising on th...
Huffington Post | Julie Satow | Posted 02.24.2009 | Business
Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said Tuesday outlook for the company would remain dreary through its fiscal year ending in June. The stock t...
AP | Posted 11.19.2008 | Business
BELLEVUE, Wash. - Microsoft Corp. is no longer interested in buying all of Yahoo Inc., CEO Steve Ballmer said Wednesday, though he told shareholders t...
Silicon Alley Insider | Henry Blodget | Posted 10.07.2008 | Business
Famed hedge-fund manager David Einhorn (Greenlight Capital), the man who shorted Lehman Brothers, has been clobbered along with other Wall Street star...
Huffington Post | Posted 07.07.2008 | Business
Carl Icahn's saber just got louder. The Associated Press reports that Microsoft has indicated that it would be interested in negotiating a deal with Y...
Reuters | Posted 07.02.2008 | Business
(Reuters) - Microsoft Corp is preparing a new bid for Yahoo Inc's search business and has approached other media companies about joining it in a deal ...
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. ...
Silicon Alley Insider | Henry Blodget | Posted 06.16.2008 | Business
The drubbing Carl Icahn took last week may just have beaten the stuffing out of him. The raider "hinted" that he might not press forward with his camp...
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...
AP | MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Posted 05.04.2008 | Business
SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Jerry Yang has gotten what he wanted: a chance to prove his company is worth more than the $47.5 bill...
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...
CNBC | Posted 04.30.2008 | Business
In an exclusive interview with CNBC's Maria Bartiromo to air Wednesday afternoon, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said that a Microsoft-Yahoo! merger would de...
New York Times | Posted 04.29.2008 | Business
Why is Microsoft taking it sweet time showing its next move in the battle for Yahoo? I suspect it is simply arranging the forces for its next attack. ...
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...
AP | MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Posted 04.11.2008 | Business
SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft Corp.'s attempt to take over Yahoo Inc. has become so tortured it may help Internet search and advertising leader Goog...
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,...
AP | JESSICA MINTZ | Posted 02.19.2008 | Business
SEATTLE — Microsoft Corp. is getting ready to take its bid for Yahoo right to the Web portal's shareholders, even as analysts wait for a higher ...
Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 02.15.2008 | Media
Who is Rupert Murdoch endorsing? The smart money says that (s)he will be the next president.
Esther Dyson | Posted 02.09.2008 | Media
The big news is already old news. It's not that traditional online advertising will go away, but its profitability will suffer as it becomes diminishing-returns efficient.
AP | MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Posted 02.09.2008 | Business
SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo Inc.'s board will reject Microsoft Corp.'s $44.6 billion takeover bid after concluding the unsolicited offer undervalues t...
Los Angeles Times | Jessica Guynn, Thomas Mulligan, Joseph Menn | Posted 02.05.2008 | Business
It looks as if Yahoo will be dragged down the aisle by its suitor, Microsoft, no matter how loudly Google speaks its piece. On Monday, other potentia...
Robert Schlesinger | Posted 02.04.2008 | Politics
The clash of the computer titans: Google versus Microsoft, with Yahoo at stake as either a prize to be claimed or defended. Who are the lobbyists deploying on the issue?
Jake Brewer | Posted 02.04.2008 | Business
Yahoo employees are people who can make individual choices -- not mere numbers or factors in a valuation equation -- and these people in particular do not want to work for Microsoft.
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Huffington Post | Julie Satow | Posted 02.26.2009 | Business