Henry Blodget over at the newly rebranded “Business Insider – Silicon Alley Insider” (a hint of “Microsoft branding mess” in that one, no?), this morning wrote an excellent post on how the balance of power may have just shifted back to Yahoo in the long-running Micro-Hoo buy-out saga (of Yahoo search only, or otherwise).
I consider [...]

In the midst of all the hemming and hawing over the potential meltdown of the financial system, and the pitched discussions about the "bailout-rescue" and other schemes to avert it, it is easy for other significant news to barely get noticed. (I am working on a major post on many of the psychological aspects of [...]

News today that billionaire investor and Micro-hoo meddler Carl Icahn was given a seat on Yahoo’s board, as well as two additional board seats for people close to him, put to rest fears of a proxy fight at the August 1 Yahoo shareholder meeting.
But beyond that, it’s anybody’s guess as to what will happen next:
Is [...]

The Micro-hoo saga has been turning uglier in the last few days, if such a thing is possible:
The three-way "negotiations" between Carl Icahn, the Yahoo board, and Microsoft turned up another non-starter offer for MSFT to cherry-pick Yahoo’s search assets, which in turn led to much finger-pointing, and general acrimony.
The result is that Icahn may [...]

OK, this isn’t the post I meant to write, but the (pseudo-)developments are simply happening too fast to catch one’s breath.
Today, Microsoft apparently walked away from a Yahoo deal more thoroughly than they previously had, which in itself makes little sense and proves how much Ballmer and Co. have kept themselves in suspended animation during [...]