Flickr fans band together to fend off Microsoft
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| The Microsoft: Keep Your Evil Grubby Hands Off Our Flickr group has 1,804
| members and counting.
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http://www.news.com/8301-13580_3-9865225-39.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Microsoft's Yahoo bid raises more congressional eyebrows
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| In addition to the public hearing, whose date has not yet been set, the
| committee chairmen said they would also be requesting "a confidential
| briefing from the appropriate government regulators."
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9865075-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Murdpch no longer bids, but others do.
Yesterday:
Apple among those considering rival bid for Yahoo?
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| In addition to Apple and News Corp., several other firms are reported to be
| unwilling to allow Microsoft to gobble up Yahoo without a fight, including
| American media conglomerate InterActiveCorp and leading Chinese search firms
| such as Alibaba.com.
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| "Yahoo chief executive and co-founder Jerry Yang is understood not to be
| Microsoft's greatest fan, and would be prepared to line up another 'white
| knight' rather than concede to Ballmer," the Scotsman wrote in its report.-
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http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/02/04/apple_among_those_considering_rival_bid_for_yahoo.html
http://tinyurl.com/3cuudj
Recent:
Microsoft-Yahoo Deal Faces Competition Scrutiny
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| Microsoft's audacious $44.6bn bid for Yahoo! could fall foul of European
| competition law, according to a leading competition consultancy.
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http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=6D714A80-16E9-4F25-94B0-B87519A3F182
With Yahoo, Microsoft faces antitrust fight once again
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| Microsoft's proposed $44.6 billion purchase of Yahoo could subject the
| software giant to the kind of critical antitrust scrutiny from Washington it
| hasn't experienced in nearly a decade.
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9862973-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Yahoo may consider Google alliance, source says
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| Yahoo Inc would consider a business alliance with Google Inc as one way to
| rebuff a $44.6 billion takeover proposal by Microsoft, a source familiar with
| Yahoo's strategy said on Sunday.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/ousiv/idUSN0362915520080204
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