Yahoo unveiled a new branding campaign at a press conference in New York City, centered around personalization and connecting directly with consumers....
Esther Dyson | Posted 09.30.2009 | Media
Now that Yahoo! has freed itself from its fight with Google, it can return to its roots as a directory company that helped users make sense of the world around them.
Jarvis Coffin | Posted 08.31.2009 | Media
Search happens on a mountaintop; it's only scary when the companies living at that altitude climb down off the mountain to carouse in the streets of the Internet community swinging their clubs at each other, blindfolded.
nytimes.com | STEVE LOHR | Posted 08.30.2009 | Business
The bumpy, marathon mating dance between Microsoft and Yahoo finally concluded on Wednesday, when the two companies announced a partnership in Interne...
techcrunch.com | Posted 08.29.2009 | Business
Carol Bartz and Steve Ballmer are all smiles this morning with the signing of their long-awaited search deal, but the agreement isn't going over so we...
AP | MICHAEL LIEDTKE and JESSICA MINTZ | Posted 08.28.2009 | Media
SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft finally persuaded Yahoo to surrender control of the Internet's second most popular search engine and join it in a daun...
New York Times | Miguel Helft | Posted 05.11.2009 | Business
Yahoo and Microsoft, which held a marathon series of fruitless merger and partnership negotiations last year, have restarted discussions, this time ov...
Huffington Post | Julie Satow | Posted 03.29.2009 | Business
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 03.27.2009 | 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...
ft.com | Posted 02.09.2009 | Business
Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's chief executive officer, has increased the pressure on Yahoo to hand over control of its search business to his software co...
AllThingsD | Posted at 3:25 PM PT on December 1, 2008 | Posted 01.01.2009 | Business
For the record: Yahoo and Microsoft--which have talked about such a deal many months ago and have indicated publicly and recently that they should aga...
AllThingsD | Posted at 9:40 PM PT on November 29, 2008 | Posted 12.31.2008 | Business
A report in the Times of London in which Microsoft would buy Yahoo's search business in a convoluted $20 billion deal that would include well-known In...
AP | Posted 12.20.2008 | 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...
Jack Myers | Posted 10.03.2008 | Home
Now that Carl Icahn has commandeered board influence in Yahoo's business decisions, don't expect the "external swirls" (as Yahoo president S...
Paul Krassner | Posted 07.31.2008 | Business
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 07.04.2008 | 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 06.28.2008 | 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 06.20.2008 | 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 06.10.2008 | 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 06.06.2008 | 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.
All Things Digital | Kara Swisher | Posted 05.13.2008 | 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 05.12.2008 | 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 05.11.2008 | 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 05.10.2008 | 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 05.10.2008 | 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...
TechCrunch | Posted 11.21.2009 | Technology