Yahoo Inc. today became the latest company to provide developers with the opportunity to build rich Internet applications with some desktop functions with its unveiling of a preview version of a new offering called BrowserPlus.The software, which in this so-called sneak peek release works only on Yahoo sites, is intended [...]
Separating wheat from the chaff during Internet searches can be a challenge: major search engines tend to substitute quantity for quality, returning many thousand results few users have the time to go through.When it guesses that the user might be looking for more in-depth information, a new Yahoo tool provides, a lot of additional material [...]
Microsoft is considering buying the social notworking site Facebook.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the shy and retiring, softly spoken Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has been running around with money burning a hole in his ample pockets after his failed takeover of Yahoo.
Volish bankers have been having a chat with Facebook to see if it [...]
World’s second most popular search engine Yahoo has said it was open to selling itself to Microsoft, but the software giant’s chief executive Steven A Ballmer and his deal makers were not keen to negotiate and ultimately withdrew their proposal.
“They (Ballmer and his aides) chose to walk away after we put [...]
Now that Microsoft has withdrawn its unsolicited buyout bid, Yahoo investors who are outraged and seeking to extract some pain may gear up to engage in several actions, ranging from gunning for a board seat to voting “against” re-electing the company’s slate, say proxy solicitors and M&A attorneys.
Eric Jackson, a Yahoo shareholder activist, falls [...]
