Carl Icahn makes attempt to oust Yahoo board Posted: 6 months ago by vyoma999
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn reportedly is snapping up Yahoo stock in preparation for a possible attempt to replace the Internet company's board after the directors turned down Microsoft's $47.5 billion takeover offer.
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Yahoo to say NO to Microsoft Posted: 10 months ago by tchengrox
Yahoo! Inc., the Internet company that has failed to crack Google Inc.'s dominance of Web search, plans to reject a $44.6 billion takeover bid from Microsoft Corp., a person familiar with the situation said.
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Flying Spaghetti Monster defeats Florida School Board Posted: 11 months ago by pocksucket
Members of the Polk County School Board back down on their plans to add ID to the curriculum after being touched by His Noodly Appendage.
"They've made us the laughingstock of the world," board member Lofton told the Tampa Tribune.
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Microsoft wants to buy Yahoo Posted: 10 months ago by kamaloo
Microsoft has launched a $44.6bn (£22.4bn) takeover bid for Yahoo in an attempt to challenge the growing might of Google.
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Flickr pushes Yahoo Photos out of the picture Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
To eliminate overlap in services, Yahoo will close its Yahoo Photos service in favor of photo sharing darling Flickr, acquired by Yahoo a little over two years ago and considered by many a pioneer of the Web 2.0 wave of Internet innovation.
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Yahoo shakes up ad departments Posted: 1 year ago by pjanaway
Yahoo said Sunday its chief domestic sales officer had resigned and that it will merge its search and display advertising departments in the U.S. as the Internet powerhouse fights to catch up with online search leader Google.
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War On Terror board game confiscated as a possible crime tool Posted: 3 months ago by bernardblack
"War on Terror" is a satirical board game. Among other items, it includes a balaclava, a freaking ski mask with the word "evil" written on it (the person designated a terrorist in the game wears it). Police confiscated the game because the mask, openly sold all over the country could be used to hide one's identity.
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Yahoo Rejected Google One Day Before Microsoft Made Offer Posted: 6 months ago by karenben
Yahoo Inc executives dismissed a search-advertising deal with Google due to antitrust concerns, one day before Microsoft Corp made its takeover offer earlier this year.
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Yahoo to give away e-mail code Posted: 2 years ago by 2manyusernames
Yahoo is set to allow outsiders to create new services using the world's most popular consumer e-mail program, in the broadest move the Web has yet seen to enlist independent programmers to build a company's products for it.
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Is Microsoft doomed? Posted: 10 months ago by WAGS273
There, I knew that would draw a crowd. In the maelstrom of comment and analysis that has followed Microsoft's bid for Yahoo, two extraordinary assumptions have been very common.
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