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 […]

The ups and downs of the Micro-hoo saga continue unabated, with renewed Carl Icahn intrigue being the flavor of the week. The noose that irate shareholders have been verbally tying around Jerry Yang’s neck seems to be getting tighter all the time. But this time even usually stalwart Micro-hoo cheerleader Michael Arrington of TechCrunch is saying […]

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 […]

There have been surprisingly fast developments in the brewing war over social networking open standards involving Facebook and Google’s FriendConnect and OpenSocial, which I first referenced in last week’s post on Microsoft’s possible rationales for soon making an offer for Facebook. Facebook on Tuesday announced "fbOpen" as its competing OPEN standard for building Facebook compliant social […]

Developments today prompted me to pull this post I’ve been working on ahead of Part 2 of the "Microhoo Post Mortem Post". Here’s why: Today, some not so minor controversy erupted in the blogosphere in reaction to the news that Facebook had just shut down Google’s FriendConnect on its platform. There were a lot of details […]

It’s been 10 days since Microsoft-Yahoo deal was called off by Steve Ballmer, and in the days that followed the commentary and speculation has been churning at record pace. Several times last week I was tempted to write this post, only to hold off for a while longer because I wanted to write something for my […]