Late Thursday Yahoo released the text of the letter it sent
to Carl Icahn telling him heâs misguided and that the current Yahoo board knows
better what...
0 replies - 15 views - 05/15/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
Corporate raider Carl Icahn started his proxy fight for control of Yahoo this morning, beginning with the classic Icahn opening, the letter of reproach to the...
0 replies - 13 views - 05/15/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
The curtain is rising on the next installment of the Yahoo soap opera. We now know why Yahoo didnât crash and burn after Microsoft walked out and slammed...
0 replies - 20 views - 05/14/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
So how does it feel to have
witnessed one of technologyâs little miracles this week?
I mean Yahooâs stock price
successfully defying...
0 replies - 51 views - 05/09/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
Yahoo’s stock dropped roughly
19%-20% this morning at the open, shaving $8.7 billion off its value, its first
installment on the price of its independence...
0 replies - 52 views - 05/05/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
Below is the press release Yahoo issued this evening after it rejected Microsoft's sweetened offer. Its stock, which was up Friday to close to $30 on the...
0 replies - 81 views - 05/03/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
Microsoft has abandoned its pursuit of Yahoo after raising its bid by $5 billion to $33. Yahoo wanted $37 a share. Below is its press release, issued this...
0 replies - 125 views - 05/03/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is
on the horns of dilemma about what to do about Yahoo since Yahoo ignored his
Saturday deadline to deal or be acquired by...
0 replies - 54 views - 05/01/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
0 replies - 53 views - 04/30/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
0 replies - 51 views - 04/30/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
When last seen Yahoo was experimenting with letting Google
deliver ads alongside Yahoo’s search results and trying to cut a deal to fold
AOL into Yahoo, a...
0 replies - 86 views - 04/12/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
Well, so far today Yahoo has managed to antagonize
Microsoft into considering its options – like lowering its bid and girding for
a hostile takeover – by...
0 replies - 141 views - 04/09/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
Yahoo says it’s going to try offloading some ad placement to
Google, experimenting with using Google’s AdSense for Search service to deliver
relevant...
0 replies - 190 views - 04/09/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
The European Commission may crack down on Google, Yahoo,
Microsoft et al and tell them they can’t keep personal search data longer than
six months – and...
0 replies - 134 views - 04/09/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
Yahoo sent an increasing impatient Microsoft a letter today
(see below) in answer to Microsoft’s weekend ultimatum giving Yahoo three weeks
to come to terms...
0 replies - 321 views - 04/07/08 by Maureen O'Gara in News
