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New York Post:
BILL'S HARD DRIVE — MICROSOFT EYES SEARCH GIANT IN PROPOSED TAKEOVER — Stung by the loss of Internet advertising firm DoubleClick to Google last month, Microsoft has intensified its pursuit of a deal with Yahoo!, asking the company to re-enter formal negotiations, The Post has learned.
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Wall Street Journal:
Microsoft, Yahoo Reconsider Merger — A year ago, Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. explored the idea of combining to form a greater competitor to Google Inc. — The talks led nowhere leaving Microsoft and Yahoo to forge their own paths in pursuit of Google. How did they do? Well, they're talking again.
Pete Cashmore / Mashable!:
MASSIVE: Microsoft May Acquire Yahoo for $50 Billion — This deal will be huge if it goes ahead: Microsoft has reacted to Google's purchase of DoubleClick by stepping up talks with Yahoo about a possible acquisition/merger. Estimated pricetag for Yahoo? $50 billion.
Henry Blodget / Internet Outsider:
Microsoft To Buy (Swallow) Yahoo...Again? Please, God, No. — Henry Blodget: The New York Post reports that Microsoft is urgently trying to buy Yahoo again, in part because it's sick of losing deals to Google (and, no doubt, sick of losing to Google, and Yahoo, and AOL, et al...).
Charlene Li / Groundswell:
Why Microsoft + Yahoo! makes sense - and why it won't work — The New York Post and WSJ.com just came out with stories of a rumored merger between Yahoo! and Microsoft. On paper, the deal makes sense for the following reasons, but in the end it's going to be so hard that I don't think it will happen.
Financial Times:
Microsoft eyes takeover of Yahoo — Microsoft is in early stage talks with Yahoo with a view to a possible takeover in a move that would allow the software giant to compete more effectively with Google for online advertising, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Logic+Emotion, Tim Oren's Due Diligence, Fine On Media, Startup Meme and John Battelle's Searchblog
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Microsoft pursues Yahoo! takeover — The NY Post has the exclusive story this morning: Microsoft has once again approached Yahoo!, asking the Sunnyvale based search portal and content destination to come to the table and negotiate a friendly takeover by Microsoft.
Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:MSFT and Yahoo: two icebergs, roped together
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Todd Watson
David Kaplan / paidContent.org:Microsoft Asks Yahoo To Reconsider Merger Talks: Report
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Seamusmccauley / Virtual Economics:Yahoo! plus MSN does not equal Google
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:Microsoft & Yahoo Said To Be Talking Merger, Cooperation
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USA Today:
Yahoo Photos going dark as Flickr shines on — LOS ANGELES — At Yahoo, Web 2.0 has won one battle with stodgy old Web 1.0. — Yahoo is shutting down Yahoo Photos — for years, the No. 1 or No. 2 most-visited photo site on the Web. Its users will be directed to move their pictures to Yahoo's hot upstart, Flickr.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Breaking: Yahoo To Shut Down Yahoo Photos In Favor Of Flickr — I am at the annual Outcast CEO Dinner event - Brad Garlinghouse (Yahoo SVP Communications & Communities) and Stewart Butterfield (Cofounder Flickr) are sitting at my table and told me that they will announce the closure of Yahoo Photos tomorrow.
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Rafe Needleman / CNET News.com:Yahoo Photos shutting down. Flickr is the new hotness.
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Profy.Com, Compiler, The Bivings Report, Webware.com, Today @ PC World, CyberNet Technology News, Valleywag, WebProNews and Business Filter
Om Malik / NewTeeVee:
YouTube Starts Paying Star Users — YouTube is going to start helping some of its indie video content creators make money, starting tomorrow. The company will launch a program that puts the creators of some of the more popular YouTube channels — including Lonelygirl15, LisaNova, HappySlip …
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Tom Krazit / CNET News.com:
Vista draining laptop batteries, patience — Some of Microsoft's most important customers aren't happy with the battery life offered by notebooks running Windows Vista. — "It's a little scary," said John Wozniak, a distinguished technologist in Hewlett-Packard's notebook engineering department …
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I, Cringely . The Pulpit | PBS:
Lean and Mean — Last year I wrote a series of columns on management problems at IBM Global Services, explaining how the executive ranks from CEO Sam Palmisano on down were losing touch with reality, bidding contracts too low to make a profit then mismanaging them in an attempt to make a profit anyway …
Winnie Hu / New York Times:
Seeing No Progress, Some Schools Drop Laptops — LIVERPOOL, N.Y. — The students at Liverpool High have used their school-issued laptops to exchange answers on tests, download pornography and hack into local businesses. When the school tightened its network security, a 10th grader …
Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
AACS LA: Internet "revolt" be damned, this fight is not over — The chairman of the AACS Licensing Authority (AACS LA, for short) is neither intimidated nor impressed by the Internet "revolt" of sorts that took place earlier this week on sites like Digg. When the AACS used cease …
MacNN:
Apple patent reveals Leopard's Multiple Dashboard feature, more — on May 3, the US Patent & Trademark Office published five of Apple's patent applications relating to Dashboard. Out of the five patents, the one titled Multiple Dashboards revealed some interesting twists that no doubt …
