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Yahoo's Fate (Almost) Sealed As Microsoft's Ballmer Says No To Acquisition

Desire Athow — Wed, 19 Nov 2008

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said at the company's annual shareholder meeting that the company was no longer interested in purchasing Yahoo, at least for now

5 Tech Firms Which Could Merge With Or Buy Yahoo

Desire Athow — Tue, 18 Nov 2008

Jerry Yang's decision to leave the company he created caused Yahoo's stock to rise by nearly 9 percent at the time of writing and paved the way for an acquisition or a potential merger.

Jerry Yang Steps Down As Yahoo! CEO, Share Price Shoots Up

Desire Athow — Tue, 18 Nov 2008

Jerry Yang, the co-founder of Yahoo, has stepped down as the CEO of the beleaguered internet company and has been widely criticised for not allowing Microsoft to buy the company back in February after an offer of $33 was made

5 Reasons Why Apple Will Buy Yahoo

Desire Athow — Sun, 16 Nov 2008

Something happened last Thursday 13th of November at 1300 PST, Yahoo Share prices reached their lowest point ever at $9.78, the first time EVER they went below the $10 barrier (ed: they have since recovered... but for how long?) as it enters "junk status" territory

Panasonic To Buy Sanyo For USD 8.77 billion

Desire Athow — Sat, 08 Nov 2008

Japanese Consumer electronics giant Panasonic has agreed to buy its smaller competitor, Sanyo Electric, for 862 billion yen or roughly £5.61 billion in a deal where the current economic turmoil played the role of a catalyst

Microsoft Says No To Yahoo's Acquisition Calls

Desire Athow — Fri, 07 Nov 2008

Squashing Yahoo’s hopes of renewing the bid talks with Microsoft, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s CEO, stated that the company is simply “not interested” in making new offer to acquire Yahoo

5 Reasons Why Microsoft Will Not Buy Yahoo Now

Desire Athow — Thu, 06 Nov 2008

So, Jerry Yang, Yahoo's beloved CEO, now wants Microsoft to buy the battered and bruised Internet Property; that's not a rumour, that's a fact that he calmly laid out to a bemused audience at the Web 2.0 conference, hosted by Federated Media's Head Honcho, John Battelle

Google Abandons Yahoo Ad Partnership Over DoJ Challenge

Desire Athow — Wed, 05 Nov 2008

Search giant Google has announced that it will dump the internet advertising agreement it had with Yahoo after facing fierce criticisms from customers, rivals and regulators who saw the Google/Yahoo alliance as being resolutely anti-competitive

BSkyB Eyes Tiscali To Become Third Biggest Broadband Player

Desire Athow — Mon, 03 Nov 2008

Murdoch-owned BSkyB is in acquisition mode as reports say that it could acquire embattled Italian broadband company Tiscali fairly in a £450m deal fairly soon, making it the third biggest broadband provider in the UK behind Virgin Media and BT

Rackspace Buys Jungledisk, Slicehost; Jumps on Cloud Computing Bandwagon

Desire Athow — Mon, 27 Oct 2008

In its bid to take on Amazon Web Services, Rackspace Hosting Inc. has announced to acquire two companies, JungleDisk and Slicehost, for around USD 11.5 million, to augment its “cloud computing” offerings