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Yahoo Makes Mashup Mainstream With Glue Search Functionality

Desire Athow — Fri, 21 Nov 2008

Yahoo Inc. has released the US beta version of its much touted Glue Search, which offers comprehensive search results to users, by integrating texts, images, and videos on a single results web page

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

Billionaire Mark Cuban Charged With Illicit Insider Trading

Desire Athow — Mon, 17 Nov 2008

Self made American Billionaire Mark Cuban has been found guilty by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of insider trading as he sold 600,000 shares of Mamma.com, an internet search company, to avoid a loss of $750,000

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

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

Yahoo, Microsoft, Google Ratify Human Rights Guidelines

Desire Athow — Wed, 29 Oct 2008

In a move to reduce the possible risk of their actions that can lead to human right violations, leading tech companies including Yahoo, Microsoft and Google have signed a set of voluntary guidelines than that will guide their business practices while operating overseas