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Annual Meeting, Re-Elects Board, Microsoft Cries Foul
Perhaps we're coming to the point where we'll no longer be writing about Microsoft and Yahoo and their failed courtship. We'll see. Today Yahoo survived its long-anticipated shareholder meeting. It's detailed in this CNET blog post. At the conclusion of the meeting, Yahoo issued a statement that its slate of.. - Live Search
Promoting Again, This Time With "Cashback Back-to-School Deals"
Microsoft has announced a "back-to-school" promotion for using Live Search through the Live Search cashback portal. The promotion adds up to "double the cashback rewards on millions of products from hundreds of participating retailers." Example promotions include 36-percent off select shoes at Foot Locker, 18-percent off on Lenovo ThinkPad and... - Microsoft To
Take Another Run At Yahoo In 2009?
If absurdist playwright Samuel Beckett were still alive he might be tempted to write a drama about the Microsoft and Yahoo non-merger that seems to keep generating news and speculation. Better yet, maybe living playwright David Mamet will take a crack at some point. The latest justification for writing yet... - Report: AOL
Units Being Readied For Sale
For months there's been anticipation that some or all of AOL would be sold. Talks between AOL and Yahoo have been ongoing, as they have with Microsoft to a lesser degree. But months ago AOL decided to separate its ISP business (8.7 million subscribers) from its advertising and consumer portal... - Real Estate: Larry Page's $7 million manse, Valleywag
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