Microsoft Makes Bid for Yahoo
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| Microsoft Corp. Friday offered to buy Yahoo Inc. for $44.6 billion, a move
| designed to help both companies compete against industry leader Google Inc.
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120186587368234937.html?mod=hpp_us_whats_news
Who needs choice anyway? We just need more censorship.
Recent:
Yahoo! lurves open sauce
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| FOLLOWING OUR STORY, entitled Yahoo caught censoring Open Sauce, some time
| ago, Yahoo!'s spin machine got in touch to clarify the situation.
|
| [...]
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| "The Answers incident whereby the user’s response was removed is un-related
| to our thoughts on open source. The removal was due to human error, and we
| have since reinstated the answer."
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/01/31/yahoo-lurves-open-sauce
Microsoft Calls Out To Yahoo Employee(s)
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| A member of Microsoft's marketing staffing team has apparently sought out at
| least one Yahoo worker with a "we'd like to chat" message.
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http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/01/31/microsoft-calls-out-to-yahoo-employees
Yahoo's Semel steps down as chairman
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| Terry Semel stepped down as Yahoo Inc.'s chairman Thursday, severing his ties
| with the slumping Internet icon 7 1/2 months after he resigned as chief
| executive under shareholder pressure.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080201/ap_on_hi_te/yahoo_semel
Yahoo's Stock Sinks As Turnaround Stalls
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| Yahoo's woes also may create pressure on its board to mull a possible sale to
| a deep-pocketed suitor like Microsoft Corp., which hopes to make more money
| from the online advertising boom.
|
| Microsoft and Yahoo reportedly held informal discussions about a partnership
| last year before Yang -- one of Yahoo's biggest shareholders -- became CEO.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080130/yahoo_woes.html?.v=2
Yahoo's troubles spur new talk of a buyout
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/yahoos-troubles-spur-new-talk/story.aspx?guid=%7B91EB9801%2DD207%2D4265%2DBF2C%2DFF0DD27EF11F%7D&siteid=yhoof
Yahoo Slashing 1,000 Jobs Amid Profit Drop
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| The hammer has fallen. Yahoo will finally make the job cuts Wall Street has
| craved for a long time, before a backdrop of lower profits caused by higher
| expenses.
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http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/01/29/yahoo-slashing-1000-jobs-amid-profit-drop
Recent:
Yahoo! censoring open source to buddy up to Microsoft? Not likely
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| Slated is suggesting that Yahoo! is censoring out open source on its Answers
| service. Apparently some suggestions that people try Ubuntu, among other
| things, have been marked as a "violation of...Community Guidelines or Terms
| of Service."
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9857129-16.html
Yahoo Betrays Free Speech
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| For a company that ostensibly believes in the Internet’s liberating power,
| Yahoo has a gallingly backward understanding of the value of free expression.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/02/opinion/02sun2.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin
Yahoo! Answers is rejecting Open-Source options in answers
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| Someone got a computer from a friend that has some serious problems
| with Windows. S/he has none of the disks (XP or restore) and was
| asking for recommendations.
|
| [...]
|
| How is recommending freely available and legal alternatives abuse?
| ImgBurn is also a perfectly legal program, so are Ubuntu and Kubuntu
| (they're Linux).
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http://amandakerik.wordpress.com/2007/04/23/yahoo-answers-is-rejecting-open-source-options-in-answers/
http://tinyurl.com/ywglv7
Yahoo settles lawsuit with jailed Chinese journalists
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| Smith sponsored the Global Online Freedom Act of 2007, which would prohibit
| U.S. Internet companies from cooperating with repressive regimes on censoring
| the Internet and using Internet user account data to track down and punish
| pro-democracy activists.
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9815950-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Yahoo Settles With Imprisoned Chinese Journalists
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| Terms of the deal are secret, but Yahoo has reached settlements with two
| Chinese journalists who were arrested based on information the company
| provided to the ruling Communist government.
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http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/13/2031243&from=rss
Report: Yahoo exec apologizes to U.S. lawmakers on China
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| A senior executive at Yahoo has apologized for misleading U.S. lawmakers on
| the company's cooperation with a request by China for details on a journalist
| who was later jailed, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday in its
| online edition.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6216579.html
Yahoo helped China falsely imprison dissident
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| U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Lantos, D-Calif.,
| said on Oct. 16 Yahoo misled his panel at a 2006 hearing about the
| company's role in providing the Chinese government with information
| that sent journalist Shi Tao to jail for a decade.
|
| [...]
|
| "Our committee has established that Yahoo provided false
| information to Congress in early 2006," Lantos said in a statement.
| "We want to clarify how that happened, and to hold the company to
| account for its actions both before and after its testimony proved
| untrue."
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2199220,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594
Yahoo!, Microsoft ink web pact with Chinese government
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| Microsoft and Yahoo! have signed a pact with the Chinese government
| that "encourages" the big name web players to record the identities of
| bloggers and censor content. So says Reporters Without Borders, an
| organization that fights for journalistic rights across the globe.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/24/yahoo_and_microsoft_ink_chinese_blogging_pact/
Microsoft, Yahoo Tailor Ads To Users' Behavior
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| Google will remain on the sidelines — at least for now. But its Web portal
| rivals are stepping up their efforts to use behavioral targeting to make
| display, or banner, ads more relevant to Web site visitors.
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http://investors.com/editorial/IBDArticles.asp?artsec=17&issue=20070823
Yahoo in China human rights case
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| A human rights group in the US is suing Yahoo for alleged complicity in
| rights abuses and acts of torture in China.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6966116.stm
Chinese Internet dissident committed to mental hospital
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| "It is not acceptable that Chinese authorities use such methods to silence
| citizens who have merely peacefully voiced their opinions", expressed the
| organisation in an announcement. Apparently authorities have not abandoned
| the practice of punishing those who have exposed the abuse of power and
| defied censorship by compulsorily committing them to mental institutions.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/94864/from/rss09
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