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Yahoo's Build Your Own Search Service

Yahoo opens up their search technology for entrepreneurs to take on Google. Why start from scratch? I wonder if this is the sort of thing Microsoft might consider unprofitable when they purchase the company - and kill this innovative platform.

Does Ballmer Need To Go?

Pickens notes a TechCrunch analysis wondering - after Windows Vista and the failed Yahoo bid - whether Steve Ballmer's days at Microsoft are numbered.

Microsoft abandons Yahoo bid

"After careful consideration, we believe the economics demanded by Yahoo! do not make sense for us, and it is in the best interests of Microsoft stockholders, employees and other stakeholders to withdraw our proposal," Ballmer said in the letter.

Flickr Flicks at Video

What's the big deal? Flickr, which is owned by Yahoo, is hardly about to slay the Goliath that is Google's YouTube. But while this may not sound like an online revolution, it does significantly enhance the Flickr experience for its 42 million monthly visitors. Kakul Srivastava, the company's director of product management, calls these short videos 'long photos' moving snapshots that people can take with their point-and-shoot digital cameras.

Microsoft Said to Be Talking With News Corporation About Joint Yahoo Bid

Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation is in talks with Microsoft about joining in its contested bid for Yahoo, according to people involved in the discussions. The combination, which would join Yahoo, Microsoft's MSN and News Corporation's MySpace, would create a behemoth that would upend the Internet landscape.

Yahoo Plans to Let Users Help Mold New Feature

The Buzz service borrows heavily from other so-called social news aggregators, like Digg and Reddit, as it asks users to vote on items they like. Items with the most votes, or buzz, will earn prominent placement. But the Buzz service is different in some important ways. Rather than turn Buzz into a Web destination for users, Yahoo plans to include the content that surfaces through Buzz on its front page.

Bargains too good to pass up!

Pretty funny but thoughtful post by Dudley. Microsoft's could own NewsCorp for less than Yahoo.

Blodget: MicroHoo ‘is gonna be a disaster’

Yep, and all that Yahoo software - doesn't run on Microsoft servers. It's a nightmare from the technology side too.

Google criticizes Microsoft's proposed acquisition of Yahoo!, calling it 'tr

But Google is painting a starkly different picture, asserting that Microsoft will be able to stifle innovation and leverage its dominating Windows operating system to set up personal computers so consumers are automatically steered to online services, such as e-mail and instant messaging, controlled by the world's largest software maker.

Microsoft bids $44.6 billion for Yahoo - U.S. business- msnbc.com

Microsoft has pounced on slumping Internet icon Yahoo with an unsolicited takeover offer of $44.6 billion, seeking to join forces against Google in what would be the biggest Internet deal since the Time Warner-AOL merger in 2001.

Yahoo to Support OpenID Single Sign-On

People with a Yahoo user name and password will be able to use that ID information to access non-Yahoo Web sites that support the OpenID 2.0 digital identity framework, reducing the amount of different log-in information people need to create, remember and enter online.

Yahoo: evil in China

So Yahoo has reached a settlement with the families of Chinese journalists who were jailed after the company ratted on them. It comes after a savaging from Congressional representatives but this case is not going to go away.

Hot rumors of Microsoft-Yahoo! merger, then cold splash of reality

The Journal doused its earlier report. Again citing unnamed sources, it reported online that "in recent months" Yahoo! and Microsoft had talked about a merger or "some kind of matchup that would pair their respective strengths," but that the merger talks are "no longer active."

Yahoo launches online song-lyric database

Yahoo s song lyrics, in contrast, are supposed to be the official versions. Under the licensing agreement, Yahoo will share with copyright holders the revenue from the ads that will be displayed alongside the lyrics. The database and licensing deals were cobbled together over the past two years by Gracenote, a digital media management specialist.

176 Newspapers to Form a Partnership With Yahoo

Will rubber meet road? In the first phase of the deal, the newspaper companies will begin posting their employment classified ads on Yahoo s classified jobs site, HotJobs, and start using HotJobs technology to run their own online career ads.