HP, Intel, Yahoo in cloud tie-up

Gartner predicts cloud computing will be huge Chip giant Intel is teaming up with web firm Yahoo and hardware company HP to create virtual research centres for cloud computing. Cloud computing offers online storage and promises a range of new services for data and devices that are plugged into the cloud. Initially six data centres [...]

Google supports Yahoo! in tiff with Microsoft

SUN VALLEY, Idaho – Google Inc. backs Yahoo in its effort to stave off an unsolicited takeover by Microsoft Corp. because an independent Yahoo will increase competition in the Internet search and advertising markets, Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said Thursday. “We absolutely support the decision that Yahoo made” in rejecting the Microsoft overture, Schmidt [...]

Microsoft will renew Yahoo negotiations if shareholders oust board

SAN FRANCISCO – Microsoft Corp. threw its weight behind investor Carl Icahn’s effort to oust Yahoo Inc.’s board next month, saying Monday that a successful rebellion would encourage the software maker to renew its takeover bid for Yahoo or negotiate another deal. The development gives Icahn a carrot to dangle before Yahoo shareholders as he [...]

Icahn urges Yahoo to elect new board; says Microsoft still interested

NEW YORK – Microsoft and billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn say the software maker is willing to discuss a transaction with Yahoo if shareholders of the online search company elect a new board. In a letter sent to Yahoo Inc. shareholders Monday, Icahn said he has little doubt that a new board would immediately start [...]

Microsoft may refresh Yahoo bid

Microsoft is trying to recruit media partners to form a joint bid that would slice Yahoo into pieces, a report says. SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) – Unable to strike a deal on its own, Microsoft Corp. reportedly is hoping to snap up Yahoo’s online search operations with the help of News Corp. and Time Warner [...]

Yahoo! formally opens its Philippine subsidiary

MANILA, Philippines – Internet company Yahoo! has formally opened a full-fledged Philippine subsidiary to strengthen the brand, four months after it appointed a team to look after its local operations. Besides planning to grow its Philippine operations, the local unit is also tasked to provide services to Yahoo’s regional office in Singapore, the company said [...]

Yahoo confirms Google commitment, pans Microsoft

SAN FRANCISCO – Yahoo Inc.’s leaders defended online search leader Google Inc. as a more desirable partner than Microsoft Corp. in a Wednesday letter that affirmed the Internet pioneer’s commitment to a strategy that has alienated shareholders. Yahoo embraced its planned advertising partnership with Google amid reports that it had revived talks about a possible [...]

Yahoo addresses e-mail woes with new domains

SAN FRANCISCO – Yahoo Inc. is offering free e-mail accounts under two new designations in an effort to attract Web surfers unhappy with their current addresses. The Sunnyvale-based company expects to begin registering new addresses under the domains of “ymail” and “rocketmail” around noon PDT Thursday at http://mail.yahoo.com. It will be the first time that [...]

Google grows stronger in Microsoft-Yahoo fallout

SAN FRANCISCO – Microsoft Corp.’s abandoned takeover bid for Yahoo Inc. appears to have culminated with a disheartening thud for those two companies but amounted to yet another coup for online search leader Google Inc. What began in January as Microsoft’s most audacious attack yet on Google instead paved the way for the Internet’s most [...]

Yahoo seeks Google’s aid after Microsoft talks die

SAN FRANCISCO – Yahoo Inc. became Microsoft Corp.’s takeover prey largely because Google Inc. established such a commanding lead in the Internet’s lucrative search advertising market. But after eluding Microsoft’s grasp, Yahoo is now turning to Google to help squelch a rebellion among its shareholders who believe it should have accepted Microsoft’s $47.5 billion buyout [...]

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