Microsoft Yahoo Merger Finally a Reality?

July 7th, 2008 Yahoo! spent the July 4 weekend in discussions with its lead adviser, Goldman Sachs, and potential bid partners including Time Warner in a desperate bid to defend itself from shareholders meeting on August 1 to vote on whether to re-elect their board. The possible merger with Times-Warner's AOL division could be worth as much as $10 billion (£5 billion).

May 30th, 2006 New York Post confirmed that Microsoft has been involved in top secret discussions to buy eBay. Apparently Microsoft wants to merge eBay into its MSN portal as part of its "war" against Google.

January 13th, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO - Struggling web pioneer Yahoo has named Carol Bartz, the former head of software company Autodesk, as its new chief executive. The appointment follows a two-month search for a replacement for company founder Jerry Yang, who was widely blamed for botching merger talks with Microsoft that would have proved highly lucrative to many shareholders.

June 3rd, 2009 Yahoo CEO: Shake-up needs more time, not Microsoft SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Carol Bartz has a message for investors hoping for a quick fix at the slumping Internet company or for an online search partnership with Microsoft Corp.

April 5th, 2008 Yahoo has three weeks to accept Microsoft's $31 per share combined cash and stock offer or Microsoft may lower its bid and also take its offer directly to Yahoo investors, Microsoft said on Saturday. Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer said in a letter addressed to Yahoo's board of directors that "now is the time" to negotiate final terms of a deal.

March 1st, 2005 Too bad their sample request url's do not work! Their width of services is more than google - image, news and video search capability in addition to standard web search. They seem to think that location based search is a separate category.

May 22nd, 2009 After declaring web of objects, Yahoo Inc now plans to venture into social networking to refurbish its line of products.  Yahoo is looking to acquire companies that will support it to become a bigger player in social networking, as provided by Chief Technology Officer Ari Balogh. He told the Reuters Global Technology Summit that this is the good time for buying.

November 29th, 2005 With the merger of WebWork and Struts now it is crystal clear that our beloved (not to speak bad about the dead) java web framework is no more with us. It's parts will however be salvaged and added to WebWork.

July 28th, 2008 Yahoo Pipes and Google Mashup Editor both allows you to create mashups with RSS feeds. The following is a brief comparative review.

December 24th, 2008 Yahoo has reportedly stopped developing any version of yahoo messenger for Windows Vista. Though it was officially confirmed on 24th Oct, 2008, we were still thinking that it is another of a warning that will not be put to effect.

September 7th, 2007 You too may have received a sad notice from Yahoo Photos: Dear Angsuman, Thank you so much for using Yahoo! Photos. Before we go, we can help you move your photos to Flickr, Yahoo!'s other photo sharing service.

May 21st, 2009 After a poor show on the search engine market this April, far behind Google, Yahoo has come up with a new phenomenon to boost its search initiatives. It's called the web of objects.

March 22nd, 2006 Yahoo lanuched a service to provide local telephone number for $2.99 per month. The calls will have to be initiated from a PC, but can be made to traditional landline phones and cellphones.

June 24th, 2006 Google is massively pushing its web browser toolbar everywhere around the world. Google has agreed to pay a "significant amount" to have Google toolbar bundled with select Adobe downloads.

November 12th, 2007 I am sick and tired of Yahoo Messenger Spam initiated primarily by Myfreecamhost and now joined by few new initiates too. Everyday, at the most inppropriate times I will get one or more messages from Yahoo Messenger asking me to watch some random female's webcam on myfreecamhost for free (obviously scam).