With the start of the Olympics in Beijing being only a few days away, a lot of focus in the technology blogosphere has been on the restrictions put on Chinese Internet users by the Chinese government and the role of major US Internet companies in this. According to US Senator Dick Durbin, Google, Yahoo, and [...]
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By David Needle
August 1, 2008
UPDATED: SAN JOSE, Calif. — TV cameras and other media massed outside the Fairmont hotel before the start of Yahoo’s shareholder meeting here today. But they weren’t huddled around embattled CEO Jerry Yang or other Yahoo officials.
Rather, it was maverick shareholder Eric Jackson who was holding court, detailing [...]
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months of bitter public sparring and mutual accusations, Yahoo has made peace with Carl Icahn, the billionaire investor who has been lobbying to take control of the company’s board of directors and force a transaction with Microsoft.
Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) today announced a settlement with Icahn, who said he will give up his proxy fight to [...]
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Microsoft Talks Up Yahoo Integration Plans
By Kenneth Corbin
February 22, 2008
Oh, the inevitability of it all.
In an internal e-mail sent earlier today, Kevin Johnson, Microsoft’s president of platforms and services, reminded his employees of the strategic advantages that will come from acquiring Yahoo, and addressed issues about the integration of [...]
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