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Breaking news: Yahoo rejects Microsoft bid
Blog As if the Mobile World Congress wasn't enough, Yahoo has finally confirmed the rumours over the weekend that it was planning to reject Microsoft's bid. Yahoo! Board of Directors Says Microsoft's Proposal Substantially Undervalues Yahoo!
[February 11, 2008, 14:04]
Yahoo and their interpretation of Customer Support
Blog Wanna have fun when your free yahoo account has been disabled by Yahoo? Ask Yahoo to reinstate the account by using the email form. So the next step is to call Yahoo. The computer guided menu option "Support for free account" responds that the only...
[December 1, 2008, 17:03]
Microsoft, Yahoo and money
Blog To the intense joy and considerable surprise of just about everyone, the MS/Yahoo deal is not going to plan. Yahoo has played it cool - the rumour is that the board will say no, but they're in no hurry to play their hand.
[February 10, 2008, 13:13]
Steve Ballmer's love letter to Yahoo
Blog Under our proposal, Microsoft would acquire all of the outstanding shares of Yahoo! These discussions were based on a vision that the online businesses of Microsoft and Yahoo! Today is no exception with Microsoft renewing its overtures to the Yahoo...
[February 1, 2008, 11:29]
Analysts expect Yahoo to accept Microsoft's offer
Blog The conference call with Microsoft on its plans to acquire Yahoo is winding up and although though we are only hearing from the Microsoft camp at the moment - the impression we are getting from analysts is that Yahoo would be foolish indeed to...
[February 1, 2008, 13:07]
Does Yahoo! OpenID 2.0 support open up security concerns?
Blog Did you notice that Yahoo! This is just a public Beta of course, but it will mean that in addition to Yahoo! Services, anyone with a Yahoo! Yahoo’s implementation is based on the OpenID 2.0 specification, which was finalised in December 2007 and...
[January 17, 2008, 18:24]
Microsoft Yahoo's biggest problem - what to call it?
Blog And there's been much blethering this weekend about Yahoo and Microsoft, some of which would have been more accurate had the producers just slit a goat and squinted at its entrails. Microhoo? Yasoft? Macrahoo!
[February 5, 2008, 10:51]
The community spirit of Yahoo's Fake
Blog See and read The community spirit of Yahoo's Fake at news.com - an interview with Caterina Fake, co-founder of Flickr.
[March 26, 2007, 10:34]
Ballmer will let Yahoo brand live
Blog Just as city types are nervous that the US and UK will “talk themselves into recession” - surely there’s also a danger of the tech industry talking Yahoo into acquiescing to Microsoft’s bear hug takeover bid?
[February 8, 2008, 9:01]
Analyst: Nokia should buy Yahoo
Blog The endless to-ing and fro-ing over a potential Microsoft buyout of Yahoo has, I must confess, got me to the stage of sticking my fingers in my ears and humming loudly. The latest news, following Jerry Yang's announcement that he would step down as...
[November 20, 2008, 12:14]
Google is not quite 10 yet
Blog Take, for example, this piece from Yahoo News, bearing the headline "Google, at age 10, is the official heart of the Internet" (man, it must sting Yahoo to stick that up! Reports are circulating on the internets that Google is 10 years old tomorrow.
[September 14, 2007, 10:37]
Yahoocrosoft? Microhoo?
Blog The feisty New York Post is saying that Microsoft is chasing Yahoo with a very large cheque and lust in its eyes. Microsoft has eyed Yahoo before, but never with nearly enough money to make the deal sing.
[May 4, 2007, 16:00]
Hot dog harmony
Blog Well, if the last 24 hours here at the Yahoo! They’re not phased either, even as Yahoo! Are software developers the same all over the world? Open Hack Day in Bangalore India are anything to go by, I can give you three good reasons why engineers of...
[October 6, 2007, 8:04]
Idiot-Savant Programming
Blog I spent some time reading the news on Yahoo tonight and a story that caught my attention concerned a Arizona state prisoner who died in the OUTDOOR "cell" (really a cage) made out of chain link fencing on 4 sides and on the top.
[June 13, 2009, 5:45]
The Mobile Industry’s Growing DoS Risk
Blog In the not so distant past, major labels such as Yahoo and Amazon have become targets of malicious Denial of Service (DoS) campaigns. If top Internet companies like Yahoo are susceptible despite all of their advanced computer and server-based...
[April 10, 2008, 1:16]
IDF: Intel announces TV platform, channel, chip.
Blog In conjunction with Yahoo, Intel has created the Widget Channel, an open widget-based platform for developers to bring applications to TVs. The widget dock runs along the bottom of the TV screen, bringing up a ribbon of apps called snippets...
[August 20, 2008, 17:35]
It's only $44.6 billion...
Blog Microsoft has effectively bought Yahoo; heaven only knows how they arrived at the exact $44.6 billion offer rather than $40 billion or $50 billion, but it's so far in excess of Yahoo's market value that the shareholders are going to exercise their...
[February 2, 2008, 14:45]
Liveblogging from Microsoft's press gig
Blog I thought the Yahoo! A snide remark or two about Apple, and a blanket refusal to discuss Yahoo! Last year's equivalent event proved very useful for liveblogging, what with a bunch of announcements like Windows Mobile 6 and, er, DRM.
[February 11, 2008, 13:14]
Mobile mushrooms for the masses
Blog According to Geraldine Wilson, Yahoo! There have been many false dawns for Internet on the mobile device, but I believe we will look back on 2007 as things (across all four of the top determining factors) were really kick started,” said Yahoo!
[November 30, 2007, 9:23]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Aside: "We have reorganised our instant-messaging business to optimise our ability to leverage the Yahoo network, whether our customers are at work or at home," Lisa Pollock Mann, senior director of Yahoo Messenger, said in a statement.
[June 18, 2004, 18:45]
