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| The New York Post is Full of Sh**--TechCrunch | | TechCrunch declares war on sloppy journalism, blasting the New York Post for running a titillating story about how Microsoft (MSFT) has been unable to find anyone willing to be a Yahoo (YHOO) dissident director. In fact, TechCrunch says, it talked to a Yahoo dissident director (unnamed), who ridiculed the idea that anyone in Silicon Valley cares what Jerry Yang or Yahoo thinks of them [..] Read complete article |  | Published 28-Mar-2008 by Silicon in YHOOMSFT Read 14 times. More hits in  |
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| Microsoft-Yahoo Takeover Glitch: Can't Find Dissident Yahoo Board Members* | | 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 to get fired at Yahoo's shareholder meeting (Jerry, Roy Bostock, et al). The problem? The "word on the street" is that Microsoft can't find anyone willing to take on the job, says the Post's Peter Lauria.
We had assumed that Microsoft coul [..] Read complete article |  | Published 27-Mar-2008 by Silicon in YHOOMSFT Read 0 times. More hits in  |
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| Report: Microsoft Yahoo Decision After Close* | So reports Kara Swisher, citing sources close to Microsoft (MSFT). Caveat: We checked with some other sources close to Microsoft, who didn't know the first thing about it.
On the employee Town Hall conference call today, Steve Ballmer said he didn't have anything announce about Yahoo (YHOO) today, so we weren't expecting anything this afternoon. But we're all ears.
*UPDATE [..] Read complete article |  | Published 01-May-2008 by Silicon in YHOOMSFT Read 10 times. More hits in  |
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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.
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| Microsoft eyes AOL takeover | | But is it for real?
Microhoo Time Warner is still trying to flog AOL to either Yahoo! or Microsoft in the event that their on-off merger talks ending completely.
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| Carl Icahn begins proxy bid for Yahoo | Yahoo, fresh off the Microsoft rollercoaster, is about to find itself in the midst of yet another takeover bid. Carl Icahn, the world’s 46th richest man, is about to begin a proxy bid for the internet giant. The mogul has nominated a board of 10 people to replace the current Yahoo board of advisers. In [...] [..] Read complete article |  | Published 15-May-2008 by Joshua Karp in News Read 11 times. More hits in  |
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| Yahoo! talks! to! Time! Warner? | | And others…
Yahoo! spent the holiday weekend locked in talks with Time Warner. The two are looking for a way to split Yahoo! up in order to fend off Microsoft’s takeover attempt.
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