Bloomberg: Yahoo Defense May Fail to Repel Hostile Microsoft Bid Apple Web site: Apple releases Mac OS X 10.5.2 Update Reuters: Nokia Adds Google Search to Handsets Broadband Reports: Competition Still Not Lowering TV Prices Reuters: RIM May Offer Touchscreen BlackBerry NYTimes: Wide BlackBerry Outage … Read More »
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Yahoo, you have a $40.56 billion market cap and have been serving up web pages, ads and services for over a decade. I assume you get it when it comes to infrastructure. So why is it that you launch new services without proper capacity? … Read More »
Digital minimalists got a big lift this morning when Microsoft, Google, VeriSign and IBM all said they’d begin supporting OpenID, the open-source standard that seeks to enable consumers to use a single identity and password to log in to any web site on the … Read More »
If in the first eight years of the 21st century contextual text advertising has proven to be the magic potion, then it is safe to say that the next decade or so is going to be about location-relevant advertising and marketing messages. LBA (location-based advertising) has … Read More »
…or so wrote Marc Andreessen, on his blog Monday. Pundits have bemoaned the impact that Microsoft’s acquisition of Yahoo will have on Silicon Valley entrepreneurship: In eliminating a “big startup acquirer,” Redmond is slamming shut one, and possibly two, big windows for “VC-funded exits.” You’ll be … Read More »
Exactly how are companies going to make money on the social web? The path to the next generation of online advertising does indeed remain murky, but two new deals may provide a little light. Read More »
Google has kept mum on the much talked about Microsoft-Yahoo deal, but today the company broke its silence and posted its official statement on its blog. The statement is credited to David Drummond, Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer… Could Microsoft now … Read More »
Dear Yahoo, I Pwn You. XO Microsoft. [GigaOM] Google Drives Microsoft’s Hostile Bid for Yahoo [GigaOM] Microsoft Offers to Buy Ailing Yahoo for $44.6 Billion [WebWorkerDaily] What Would Micro-Hoo Mean for Video? [NewTeeVee] WWD Debate: Microsoft Wants Yahoo, What do Web Workers Get? [WebWorkerDaily] Read More »
This morning, Microsoft offered to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion in a cash-and-stock deal. While not entirely hostile, as Yahoo’s board is considering the deal, it’s not exactly friendly, either. Steve Ballmer said on a conference call that the two companies have been talking … Read More »
Just when you’d think Google’s financial discombobulation would give Yahoo some rest comes this heartfelt bullet from Microsoft. On the PR newswire this morning runs this incredibly respectful yet dispiritingly asexual love letter from Steve Ballmer to Jerry Yang. And, oh how Mr. … Read More »
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