AT&T, Yahoo partnership at risk: report
111788
NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO  - Yahoo Inc.  and AT&T Inc.  are negotiating potentially sweeping changes that could scale back their partnership, the Wall Street Journal reported, dragging Yahoo shares down 5.3 percent.
54513
A Microsoft-Yahoo merger could threaten the openness on which the Internet is based, a Google executive says.
209236
Yahoo Inc's board believes Microsoft Corp's unsolicited bid of $44.6 billion to acquire Yahoo "massively undervalues" the company and directors are set to reject the offer, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday, citing an unnamed source.
755958
Yahoo's recently resurgent stock retreated by more than 5 percent yesterday on fears that a setback in a lucrative partnership with AT&T will undercut the anticipated gains from an update of the Web portal's advertising platform.
204150
First, Yahoo was notified that its Messenger IM client was vulnerable to attack. Then, a researcher fingered two ActiveX controls as flawed and posted exploit code.
297783
By Alejandro Bodipo-Memba, Detroit Free Press  Feb. 21--AT&T Inc. and General Motors Corp. have signed a five-year $1-billion networking contract to deliver next-generation telecommunications to the Detroit automaker.
129989
Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation is in talks with Yahoo about a possible deal, according to a press report.
116650
Google has made its first official comments on&#160;Microsoft&#39;s proposed acquisition of Yahoo&#160;saying that the deal raises &quot;troubling questions&quot; and that the underlying principles of the Internet stand to be tested by the proposed deal.The statement refers several times to Microsoft&#39;s past regulatory transgressions and indicates that Google could be preparing to fight the deal -- if it is accepted by Yahoo -- by pushing regulators to disallow it.&quot;Could Microsoft now attempt to exert the same sort of inappropriate and illegal influence over the Internet that it did with the PC?,&quot; asked David Drummond, senior vice president of corporate development and chief legal officer at Google in a statement posted on the corporate blog on Sunday.Drummond also asks if an acquisition could allow Microsoft to &quot;extend unfair practices from browsers and operating systems to the Internet?&quot; and to &quot; take advantage of a PC software monopoly to unfairly limit the ability of consumers to freely access competitors&#39; email, IM, and web-based services?&quot;A report late Sunday in the online edition of The Wall Street Journal said Google CEO Eric Schmidt called Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang on Friday to offer help to the rival in thwarting the bid. The newspaper, which quoted people familiar with the matter, didn&#39;t provide details of the telephone call.Google has something to fear from a combined Microsoft and Yahoo. The proposed deal, which was announced on Friday and has Microsoft offering $44.6 billion for Yahoo, would combine the number two and three search engines. The two companies are also leaders in the areas of Web mail and instant messaging so a merger would provide stronger competition for Google in those areas.But Google has a massive lead in search and the deal wouldn&#39;t necessarily lead to an improvement in search results, so Microsoft and Yahoo would still face a challenge to surpass Google&#39;s current dominance in this part of the market.The Google statement got a quick response from Microsoft, which said a combination of the two companies would benefit Internet users by establishing a stronger number two competitor to Google.&quot;The alternative scenarios only lead to less competition on the Internet,&quot; said Microsoft&#39;s top-lawyer, General Counsel Brad Smith, in a statement.&quot;Microsoft is committed to openness, innovation, and the protection of privacy on the Internet. We believe that the combination of Microsoft and Yahoo! will advance these goals,&quot; Smith said.A merged company would still only account for about 30 percent of the search queries run in the U.S. and about 10 percent in Europe, he said.
714766
Yahoo Inc. is discussing a possible partnership with News Corp. in its latest effort to repel Microsoft Corp. or prod its unsolicited suitor into raising its current takeover bid, according to a person familiar with the talks.
185112
Microsoft's potential acquisition of Yahoo has many pitfalls but also some benefits, and such a huge deal will be hard to pull off, analysts say.
587174
Yahoo may team up with News Corp. to fend off&#160;Microsoft&#39;s bid to buy the struggling Web portal, according to a Wall Street Journal report on Wednesday.
190645
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.
268354
Yahoo&#39;s board of directors plans to reject&#160;Microsoft&#39;s unsolicited $44.6 billion takeover bid,&#160;The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday, citing as its source &quot;a person familiar with the situation.&quot;
763899
Yahoo Inc.  and Web auctioneer  eBay  on Thursday announced a partnership designed to  boost their position against Microsoft Corp.  and Web  search leader Google Inc. , underscoring recent  speculation the two companies could eventually merge.
73351
Yahoo's board is planning to reject Microsoft's $44.6 billion offer, arguing that it "massively undervalues" the company, according to a Wall Street Journal report.
81303
Business & money: US resports say Yahoo would consider an alliance with Google as one way of avoiding takeover
79836
A little more than a week after Yahoo received an unsolicited bid from Microsoft, the company has reportedly entered talks about a partnership with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. Analysts say the matchup would do little to resolve Yahoo's woes.