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| Microsoft and Yahoo In Talks to Avoid Hostile Fight or Bid Withdrawal* |  Not "formal" talks, says Kara Swisher, who reported them. Just "informal talks." Which of course are the same thing:
According to sources close to both companies, there are informal
discussions now taking place between Yahoo (YHOO) and Microsoft
(MSFT)-via bankers, board members, shareholders and others close to
both companies-to try to prevent a hostile take [..] Read complete article |  | Published 29-Apr-2008 by Silicon in MSFTYHOO
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| Microsoft to Yahoo!: surrender or else | | Big Steve turns the screw
Microsoft has told unwilling takeover target Yahoo! that it has three weeks to negotiate a deal - or it will go hostile. If it goes to a proxy battle, Microsoft will almost certainly return with a lower offer than the $44bn bid originally tabled on January 31.
TheRegister [..] Read complete article | | Published 06-Apr-2008 by Nerdblog in General
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| DIY analog tape delay machine |  From the Make: Flickr Pool:
V2 of my Tape Delay Machine uses two walkman type tape players. One is a Realistic Stereo Mate and the other is a Memorex XB.
Both players have a similar footprint, so I arranged them side by side and connected them together.
A single tape loop runs through two modified cassettes (each which [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 01-May-2008 by Nerdblog in General
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Microsoft (MSFT) is withdrawing its bid for Yahoo (YHOO). It will not pursue a hostile proxy battle.
Microsoft raised its bid to $33. Yahoo's board wan [..] 
We've already highlighted Marc Andreessen's excellent overview of how a Microsoft-goes-hostile-for-Yahoo (YHOO) attack would work, and we recommend it to anyone interested in this [..] 
Anyone know? This is likely the day the option-sale window opens, so absent news, we'd expect Google's (GOOG) stock to be down, especially in a weak tape. Announcement of Yahoo search outsourcing [..] 
No doubt you have better things to do than check the WSJ obsessively to watch Microsoft (MSFT) and Yahoo (YHOO) negotiate with each other, but if so, you've missed some fun in the past 12 h [..] 
In corporate press-release wars like this, it is imperative to read between the lines. More important that what Yahoo (YHOO) said in its Microsoft (MSFT) response this morning [..] 
