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Yahoo! Search Pad for research online

February 5, 2009

If you use the Internet for any kind of research online, you’ve probably found yourself wishing there was a better way to catalog the information you come across. If so, Yahoo might have a tool for you. It’s called Search Pad.

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Jerry Yang and Yahoo’s internal suicide pact

June 4, 2008

A quote from Karen Donovan’s Wired article on Jerry Yang and his participation in a plot to undermine a successful Microsoft purchase of Yahoo (emphasis mine): …Yang was engineering a plan for a “massive employee walkout” in the aftermath of a Microsoft takeover by offering all of Yahoo’s 14,000 employees the right to quit his [...]

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Microsoft retracts bid for Yahoo!

May 4, 2008

On May 3rd, Microsoft officially retracted it’s acquisition bid for Yahoo.

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Yahoo takes a play from Google’s aquisition book

April 18, 2008

On the heels of Yahoo’s announcement of their acquisition of web analytics purveyor IndexTools, Yahoo announced that the tool will be made available free of charge. There are some caveats.  Current IndexTools customers will be required to sign a standard Yahoo! agreement, and at this time the freebie won’t be for everyone.  The masses will [...]

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Microsoft to Google: Our lawyer thinks your lawyer is wrong

February 5, 2008

Microsoft’s response to… Google’s response to… Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo (hey, I wonder what they think).

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Google: Microsoft’s Yahoo bid bad for innovation, consumers, Internet

February 3, 2008

Google takes critical aim at Microsoft’s history, character and intent in response to last week’s bid for Yahoo.

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Yahooooooo! Check out the big brain on Ballmer.

February 1, 2008

With Microsoft and Yahoo’s online efforts consistently marginalized by Google’s dominance in search and online advertising it’s hard to envision the proposed acquisition happening.

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