Current events: Yahoo!

Yahoo jumps on report of new Microsoft move
MarketWatch
By MarketWatch SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Shares of Yahoo Inc. jumped 6% after a news report said Microsoft Corp. has approached other media companies ...

The Irrepressible Optimism of Yahoo Shareholders
Wall Street Journal Blogs, NY
It’s clear that Yahoo shareholders still have faith that a Microsoft bid will happen. Judging by the stock’s jump today, Yahoo investors are happy to at ...

Adobe Pairs With Google, Yahoo For Better Flash Searches Results
CRN, NY
Adobe announced a partnership with Google and Yahoo to make rich Internet applications (RIAs) friendlier to search engines. The enhanced capabilities by ...

FAQ: antitrust eyes on Yahoo-Google ad deal
CNET News, CA
Nobody, least of all Yahoo and Google, doubted the two companies' search-ad deal would escape any antitrust scrutiny. But now some details are starting to ...

AP-Yahoo News Poll methodology
The Associated Press
The AP-Yahoo News Poll is a unique study that will track the moods and opinions of a group of people throughout the presidential election campaign. ...

Microsoft Seeks Wingman for Yahoo Takeover
E-Commerce Times
By JR Raphael Microsoft is negotiating with potential partners for a tag-team attempt at closing the purchase of Yahoo it's been trying to achieve for ...

Yahoo, MerchantCircle in online marketing partnership Silicon ...
Bizjournals.com, NC
MerchantCircle Inc., an online network of local business owners, on Wednesday announced a partnership with Yahoo Inc. for online marketing services. ...

US Stocks Gain, Led by Banks; JPMorgan, Yahoo Rise, GM Falls
Bloomberg
Yahoo! Inc. jumped the most since May on a report that Microsoft Corp. approached media companies about teaming up in a deal to break up the owner of the ...

Yahoo up on report of renewed Microsoft interest
Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Yahoo (YHOO.O: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) shares jumped about 6 percent before the bell on Wednesday after the Wall Street ...

Microsoft Still Courting Yahoo's Search Business?
InternetNews.com
The latest round of leaks surrounding Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), appearing in The Wall Street Journal, suggests that the two ...

Blogosphere:

The Humiliating Detail Yahoo (YHOO) Left Out of Its "Microsoft ...
Henry Blodget  
Yahoo seems to be winning some folks over with its PR offensive about how it didn't blow the Microsoft deal (part of the board and Jerry Yang's campaign to ask you to please not fire them at the shareholder meeting). ...

Microsoft Not Done With Yahoo, Circling For The Kill
Om Malik  
Indeed, two weeks ago, Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer called Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock to suggest they meet to discuss a new idea involving other partners, according to a person familiar with the matter. ...

Daily Debrief: Justice Department to probe Yahoo-Google deal
Kara Tsuboi  
The US Department of Justice has launched a civil investigation into the proposed Yahoo-Google ad partnership. In Wednesday's edition of the Daily Debrief, I sit down with News.com's Dawn Kawamoto to talk about the nature of this ...

Microsoft (MSFT) may take another run at Yahoo! (YHOO)
Douglas McIntyre  
Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) may try to buy Yahoo! (NASDAQ:YHOO) again, but it does not want the whole company. It finds the search business useful as part of its battle with Google (NASDAQ:GOOG). The content portal business does not have ...

Microsoft Reaffirms Lack of Commitment to Yahoo
John Paczkowski  
Jerry Yang and Co. say Microsoft (MSFT) was never committed to a whole-company acquisition of Yahoo (YHOO). But if that’s the case, why is it that Microsoft seems entirely committed to a whole-company acquisition of another search ...

Microsoft Said to Still Pursue Yahoo Deal
DealBook  
Microsoft is preparing a new bid for Yahoo’s search business and has approached other media companies about joining it in a deal that would effectively lead to Yahoo’s breakup, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. ...

Microsoft Snags Powerset, Eyes Yahoo Again
Kathleen  
ADOTAS – While the Yahoo operetta may or may not be behind them, Microsoft guns ahead to compete with Google in the search arena. Plan B? Snapping up semantic search engine Powerset. Semantic search has been much ballyhooed of late as ...

Google and Yahoo to index flash content
Browser Media Ltd.  
Currently, the search engines cannot index content that is displayed via Flash, as the software appears like an opaque box to Google and Yahoo’s crawling software. This means that lots of sites that use Flash have been missing out in ...

Microsoft says Yahoo is GFP: Good for parts
Mathew  
According to the Wall Street Journal, the seemingly interminable Microsoft-Yahoo dance has taken a new twist: Microsoft has apparently approached large media entities — including Time-Warner and News Corp. — about joining up for a run ...

Microsoft Yahoo then Facebook? Rejected - Microsoft Did Bunker ...
John Furrier  
He writes “Today’s Wall Street Journal, however, echoes reports that Yahoo left out at least one embarrassing detail from its “Microsoft timeline”–one that confirms that the excuse it used to reject the deal for months was nonsense:” ...