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Microsoft Issues Statement Regarding Yahoo! — Microsoft announced that it is continuing to explore and pursue its alternatives to improve and expand its online services and advertising business. — REDMOND, Wash. — May 18, 2008 — Microsoft Corp. today issued the following statement:
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Microsoft to Buy Just Yahoo's Search Business? — Will Microsoft now just buy Yahoo's search business instead of the whole company? — Ah, what are weekends for? — Why, announcing another non-deal deal-this time, sources said, it is related to search-in the Microsoft-Yahoo takeover pas de deux, of course!
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paidContent.org, BBC NEWS, Silicon Alley Insider, Electronista, Tech Tracks, CNET News.com and John Battelle's Searchblog
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
If Icahn Can't Get Microsoft Back To Table Before Shareholder Meeting, He'll Lose Proxy Fight — The next move in the Yahoo-Microsoft-Icahn saga is Carl Icahn's: He has to get Microsoft back to the negotiating table in the next few weeks. In the meantime, he'll do everything he can to suggest …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo, Microsoft Back At The Table — Microsoft and Yahoo are back at the table, Microsoft says today. In a press statement, the company says: … This is clearly in response to Carl Icahn's bid to replace the Yahoo board and bring the company back to the table at Yahoo …
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Microsoft: We don't have to buy Yahoo outright; Is it joint venture time? — Microsoft on Sunday issued a statement that opens the door to a partnership with Yahoo, but not an acquisition. — Now Microsoft is talking some sense (Techmeme). — The 20-second version of this Microhoo drama so far.
Steven Musil / CNET News.com:
Survey: One-fifth of Americans have never used e-mail — The digital divide is apparently alive and well. — About 20 percent of all U.S. heads-of-household have never sent an e-mail, and about 20 million households, or 18 percent, are without Internet access, according to a study released earlier this week.
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Steve Rubel / Micro Persuasion:
The Hyperconnected vs. 84% of Everyone Else on Earth — Two studies that crossed my screen tonight here in London point to a widening digital divide. I am not referring to the gap between those who are online and everyone else. The gulf I am addressing here is between those who are fully engaged with the web and, well, Earth.
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Kevin Johnson / CNET News.com:
Kevin Johnson's letter on updated online strategy — As Microsoft returns to the table with Yahoo for a deal that might include Yahoo's search business, Windows and Windows Live chief Kevin Johnson sent this letter updating his team on an updated online and advertising strategy.
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Why Google News has no noise — I'm a noise junkie. I used to be a news junkie, but I've hung out with the world's top journalists enough now to see that the good ones are noise junkies. They are the types that head into a crowded party and listen to pitch after pitch (noise) …
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rexblog.com, Weblogsky, Randy Holloway Unfiltered, Marketing.fm, I'm Not Actually a Geek and ReadWriteWeb
Dan Farber / Outside the Lines:
Observations on Twitterdom — Twitter and tweeting are rapidly becoming part of the lexicon, at least among the digerati who have discovered the jouissance of followers and following. Twitter hasn't unleashed a unique technology, but an inspired broadcast pivot on existing messaging models.
Mark Evans:
I Hate to be Rude But... I don't want to join Boxbe, Spock or Diigo or, for that matter, any of the social network/knowledge-sharing/e- mail services that people have been nice enough to extend invitations recently. — It's good to be asked but there's already enough social stuff on my plate …
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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
The Pirate Bay Enters List of 100 Most Popular Webites — The Pirate Bay is the second BitTorrent site that has managed to get a spot among the 100 most visited (97) domains on the Internet. The BitTorrent tracker has good company in this prestigious list, as it brushes shoulders with sites such as Google …
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