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Google / Yahoo Spells Big Changes For Yahoo

Could this be the beginning of the end for Yahoo? Yahoo's interest in a search deal with Google was initially viewed as a poison pill move to thwart efforts of Microsoft to acquire Yahoo. I certainly saw it that way as did many others. Yahoo has continued down this path, announcing a deal with Google late Thursday afternoon. The deal basically outsources Yahoo's search ad placement to Google AdSense. Hey, I use AdSense on my personal blog, so why shouldn't Yahoo! The more the merrier I always say.

Carl Icahn Takes on Yahoo's Board

narramissic and several others have written to point out that Carl Icahn has initiated a proxy battle with Yahoo's board of directors over their rejection of Microsoft's bid for the company in February. Icahn has purchased millions of Yahoo shares over the past week and assembled a group of nine other investors (including Mark Cuban) to persuade the board to resume talks with Microsoft. Yahoo remains unimpressed. Icahn's letter to Yahoo accuses: "It is unconscionable that you have not allowed your shareholders to choose to accept an offer that represented a 72% premium over Yahoo's closing price of $19.18 on the day before the initial Microsoft offer. I and many of your shareholders strongly believe that a combination between Yahoo and Microsoft would form a dynamic company and more importantly would be a force strong enough to compete wi

Microsoft Offered $40 a Share For Yahoo

fistfullast33l writes "Bloomberg is reporting that a recently unsealed court case by shareholders against Yahoo reveals that Microsoft offered $40 a share for the Internet search company in January 2007 and Yahoo turned it down. We've extensively discussed Microsoft's bid for Yahoo earlier this year for $33 a share, which was rebuffed. Investor Carl Icahn has launched a proxy fight against Yahoo over the spurning of the Microsoft deal." CWmike notes of Computerworld's coverage of the revelations: "The complaint places much of the blame on [Yahoo CEO Jerry] Yang, describing him as someone with a 'well-known' antipathy toward Microsoft who acted out of a personal interest to keep Yahoo independent. Something wrong with that? Oh, yeah... public company.

Rogers Wireless launches Yahoo! mobile search service

Yahoo! has made available its mobile search service Yahoo! oneSearch to Rogers Wireless and Fido customers across Canada. Yahoo! oneSearch is specifically designed for mobile devices, delivering relevant results directly in the first screen. Yahoo! oneSearch also gives consumers access to news, financial information, weather conditions, Flickr photos, web images, as well as web and mobile websites. Yahoo! oneSearch also allows Rogers customers to shop in a catalogue of several ringtunes, games, graphics and other content which will be made available in the search results. This announcement builds on the expanded Rogers Communications and Yahoo! multi-year mobile, broadband and PC search agreements announced late last year.

Yahoo! rejected Microsoft bid for search business, due to exclusivity clause

Microsoft dropped bid for all of Yahoo! on 8 June and launched a bid of USD 1 billion for Yahoo!'s search business and a share of future search advertising revenue. This proposal also included an USD billion investment in Yahoo! but required Yahoo! to commit to a 10-year exclusive arrangement, according to a letter sent to Yahoo! stockholders by CEO Jerry Yang and Chairman Roy Bostock. The letter explains the reasons for Yahoo! to sign a four year non-exclusive deal with Google for online advertising services and to end the talks with Microsoft, as their search-only hybrid proposal may have been helpful to Microsoft. The board and its advisers also carefully studied the financial impact of Microsoft's proposal and concluded that it would have provided no meaningful improvement to the operating cash flow.

Microsoft-Yahoo Searching For A Price; Talks Could End Next Week: Reports

In the latest developments between Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) and Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), Reuters reports that the two parties are now focused on arriving at a value for Yahoo’s search business, and that discussions could end in the “next week or so.� The story, which quoted an unnamed person familiar with the matter, said in the latest scenario, Microsoft is proposing to buy Yahoo’s search business and take a minority stake in the company after Yahoo sells off its Asian assets. But apparently, the complicated part is in determining a price. The source explained that any amount “would be tied to how revenue-sharing and other deal terms are structured.� Two possibilities: Microsoft may pay Yahoo for search queries and traffic acquisition costs and Yahoo may seek guarantees on the rate Microsoft will pay and a specific time commitment f

Microsoft proposes to buy Yahoo search

BOSTON (Reuters) -- Microsoft Corp has proposed to buy Yahoo Inc's search business and take a minority stake in the Web pioneer, stopping short of a full-out merger, a person familiar with the discussions said on Monday. As part of the deal Yahoo would put its Asian assets, including significant minority stakes in Yahoo Japan and China's Alibaba Group, up for sale, while Microsoft would buy a chunk of what remains of the company, the source said. The talks were revealed by the two companies on Sunday, but they declined to reveal the terms of the discussions. Earlier this month, Microsoft walked away from a proposal to acquire Yahoo for $47.5 billion, or $33 per share, after Yahoo rebuffed the offer, saying it would only settle for $37 a share.

Yahoo! Announces Microsoft Talks Have Concluded

Yahoo! (YHOO) today announced that discussions with Microsoft (MSFT) regarding a potential transaction—whether for an acquisition of all of Yahoo or a partial acquisition—have concluded. The conclusion of discussions follows numerous meetings and conversations with Microsoft regarding a number of transaction alternatives, including a meeting between Yahoo and Microsoft on June 8 in which Chairman Roy Bostock and other independent board members from Yahoo participated. At that meeting, Microsoft representatives stated unequivocally that Microsoft is not interested in pursuing an acquisition of all of Yahoo, even at the price range it had previously suggested.

Yahoo Offers Two New E-mail Domains

Techzonez Yahoo is offering two new e-mail domains for free to users in addition to its familiar @yahoo.com handle. The two new e-mail domains, @ymail.com and @rocketmail.com, are calculated to increase the number of people registering for free e-mail addresses with Yahoo. Instead of relying on long e-mail addresses, Yahoo hopes that users will register with ymail or rocketmail in order to drop old e-mail addresses that may have been chosen out of necessity instead of preference.

GetANewAddress on Yahoo Domains

Yahoo has opened the domains ymail.com and rocketmail.com for Yahoo Mail users who want a more personalized e-mail address. Yahoo Mail is the world's largest Webmail service and most of the names on its yahoo.com domain have been taken. With the new domains, Yahoo is giving users a chance to get the e-mail address they really want.

Yahoo Files Lawsuit Against Lottery Spammers

(RTTNews) - Internet service provider Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO) on Tuesday announced that it has filed a lawsuit against 'Yahoo lottery spammers' for sending unauthorized e-mail messages to internet users making them believe to have won a lottery or prize offered by Yahoo!. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court in New York City, under the Federal Trade Mark Act, the Federal Can-Spam Act, and related state laws. Sunnyvale, California-based Yahoo! noted that it does not offer any such awards and has no connection with the spammers or their e-mail communications. Further, the company said through continued litigation efforts it plans to go after individuals who have attempted to negatively impact Yahoo e-mail experience for consumers across the Internet.

Yahoo Ends Talks With Microsoft, Embraces Google Instead

snydeq writes with a story from InfoWorld which says that "Yahoo has ended its talks with Microsoft and is instead nearing an agreement with Google. Yahoo's purported reason for breaking off the talks? That Microsoft was only interested in purchasing Yahoo's search business, not all of the company. 'Such a transaction would not be consistent with the company's view of the converging search and display marketplaces, would leave the company without an independent search business that it views as critical to its strategic future and would not be in the best interests of Yahoo stockholders,' the company said in a statement. The deal with Google allegedly involves Yahoo's search advertising business. The move likely will draw more ire from Icahn and may in fact remain part of the elaborate poker game between the two companies.

Yahoo to run Google Adsense; Gchat/YIM link up...

Building on its text-advertising dominance, Google on Thursday said that it has reached an agreement to allow Yahoo to serve Google's Adsense search and contextual advertising as well as allow enable users on Gchat and Yahoo! Messenger to communicate without between the networks. Under the predicted non-exclusive 10-year agreement, Yahoo! has the option to display Google ads alongside its own natural search results in the U.S. and Canada and Yahoo! can serve contextually targeted ads on its U.S. and Canadian web properties as well as on its current publisher partner sites. Yahoo, however, is free to enter into similar agreements with other advertising providers and use Google's advertising on as many or as few of its search results and content pages as it chooses.

Microsoft's Yahoo Gameplay

Many Yahoo (YHOO) shareholders thought that Microsoft (MSFT) wasn’t done with Yahoo even when it said that it was walking away from the takeover bid. Some investors such as billionaire Carl Icahn decided to take matters into their own hands and work on a hostile takeover of Yahoo. Now Microsoft has come back to Yahoo and proposed a deal which would involve some sort of partnership or joint-venture rather than a full Microsoft takeover of Yahoo.

Google beats Yahoo as most popular U.S. web destination for April

(RTTNews) - In yet another blow to Internet information provider Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO), Google Inc. (GOOG) took the number one spot in the U.S. web properties ranking from Yahoo for the first time in the month of April. Yahoo is already under pressure from various sources as it has been steadily losing its search engine market share. A monthly analysis released by ComScore Inc. (SCOR) for April revealed that Google sites had 141.1 million visitors, an increase of 18% from the same month last year. Meanwhile, Yahoo sites fell to second place with only 140.6 million visitors for the month, which is an increase of 17% from the year-ago period. Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) was third with about 121 million visitors. Google has long been the Internet's leader in search, but its audience has trailed Yahoo's when counting other services such as e-mail and

Microsoft Offers to Buy Yahoo! Search

Following up on weekend reports about Microsoft and Yahoo! returning to merger talks, reports are now saying that the talks focus on Microsoft buying Yahoo!’s search business. Sources reportedly claim that Yahoo! would then sell off its Asian assets, including Chinese Internet company Alibaba Group and Yahoo! Japan. Reuters reported that Microsoft would then buy the remaining chunk of Yahoo!.

New chess match for Microsoft, Yahoo

So far, so good for Carl Icahn’s big bet that Microsoft (MSFT) and Yahoo (YHOO) will go back to the table. Yahoo shares rose 1% in premarket trading Monday, a day after Microsoft said it has proposed a new deal “that would involve a transaction with Yahoo but not an acquisition of all of Yahoo.� In response, Yahoo reiterated that it doesn’t want to be acquired but remains “open to pursuing any transaction which is in the best interest of our stockholders.�

Microsoft loses U.S. search users to Google and Yahoo

Microsoft lost Internet search users in the United States to Google and former takeover target Yahoo last month, research firm ComScore said. Microsoft, the world's biggest software maker, handled 8.5 percent of queries in May, down from 9.1 percent the month before, Reston, Va.-based ComScore said Thursday in a statement. Google extended its lead to 61.8 percent, and Yahoo grew to 20.6 percent, ComScore said. The companies are vying for a bigger piece of the $41 billion online advertising market. Microsoft's talks to buy Yahoo's search business for $1 billion ended last week, around the time Yahoo struck a deal to show some Google ads on its search pages. Microsoft's proposal would have included an $8 billion investment in Yahoo. Google handled 61.

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Yahoo files trademark suit against 'Yahoo Lottery Spammers'

on Tuesday said it filed a lawsuit against "Yahoo Lottery Spammers" for unlawfully sending e-mail messages to Internet users. The lawsuit alleges the email messages deceive people into believing they have won a lottery or price offered by Yahoo. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in New York City, under the Federal Trademark Act, the Federal CAN-SPAM Act, and related state laws. "Yahoo does not offer any such awards and has no affiliation or any connection with the spammers or their e-mail communications," the company said. End of Story

Walking away could turn out best for Yahoo and Microsoft

Sure, things look rough for Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft Corp. after they couldn't agree on a deal. Yahoo's stock has cratered, and its would-be suitor has to figure out another way to catch up in the online ad market, a flaw so big Microsoft was willing to pay $47.5 billion to fix it.

Yahoo sues over lottery phishing scam

Yahoo sues over lottery phishing scam Yahoo has filed a lawsuit against an unknown group individuals, loosely called the “Yahoo Lottery Spammers,” for using the company’s name in an email scam that sought victim’s personal information and extorted money from purported winners. Yahoo is seeking to put an end to the individuals’ practices and unspecified damages.

Yahoo Wields Legal Club Against Faceless Lottery Spammers

Yahoo is suing a group of spammers for posing as the portal in a phishing scam. The spammers masqueraded as Yahoo in order to con people out of hundreds of dollars, telling the victims that they won cash prizes, Yahoo alleges.

Yahoo to Flag Dangerous Search Results

Yahoo and McAfee are joining to offer alerts about potentially dangerous websites alongside search results generated at Yahoo.com. With the new security feature, people who search the Internet using Yahoo will see a red exclamation point and a warning next to links McAfee has identified as serving dangerous downloads or using visitors' e-mail addresses to send out spam.

Yahoo Files Lawsuit Against 'Lottery Spammers'

Yahoo on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against an unknown group of spammers who had used the Yahoo name to try and obtain personal and financial information from its victims. According to a report from the Associated Press, the emails claimed to be a part of a lottery run by Yahoo in which the recipients could win between a few thousand to a million dollars, on the condition that they click a provided link to hand over valuable personal and financial information to a "Yahoo lottery coordinator."

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