Facing Free Software, Microsoft Looks to Yahoo
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Internet-centered programs that compete with Microsoftâs core products are an overlooked driver of its bid for Yahoo.
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What Yahoo! can do for Microsoft--and what it can't.
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Yahoo! must consider the Microsoft deal on the table.
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The key to Microsoft's proposed $44.6 billion acquisition of Yahoo is both companies' desire to build an advertising platform that can compete with Google's AdWords.
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Analysis: The pairing gives Microsoft a needed outlet, but the outcome could quash Yahoo.
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One's head spins thinking about Microsoft's unsolicited bid of $44.6 billion for Yahoo. Yahoo has been a major figure in the open source world for a long time. It sponsors events, participates in countless development projects, and encourages its own engineers to do open source work. And, of course, it uses countless open source code bases as well. read more
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Taking the strategy of 'if you can't beat 'em, join 'em,' IBM Corp is teaming up with Yahoo to add a free entry-level addition to its OmniFind search offerings.
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SUNNYVALE, California  - Yahoo Inc. is set to allow outsiders to create new services using the world's most popular consumer e-mail program, in the broadest move the Web has yet seen to enlist independent programmers to build a company's products for it.
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Yahoo Inc. said on Thursday it  will begin testing a free desktop search service in early  January, following rivals hoping to extend the reach of wildly  profitable search-related advertising.
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The company plans to making available free software that connects its Windows operating system to software services delivered on the Internet.
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In an attempt to retain its free e-mail account users and keep its competitors, Google and Microsoft on their feet Yahoo will be increasing the storage size for free e-mail accounts to 250 MB.
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Redmond's desktop software dominance faces an uprising of alternatives from the likes of IBM, Google and Yahoo.
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Yahoo and IBM jointly introduced free software that businesses could use to find information stored in their own computers or on the Internet.
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Web portal signs extension to provide paid searches to Microsoft as it builds its own service. NEW YORK  - Yahoo! Inc. said Thursday it agreed to provide paid search services to Microsoft Corp.
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By Brian Bergstein  IBM Corp. and Yahoo Inc. are teaming up to offer a free data- search tool for businesses, a quirky move challenging Google Inc. and other corporate-search specialists in a blossoming market.
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IBM Corp. and Yahoo Inc. are teaming up to offer a free data-search tool for businesses, a quirky move challenging Google Inc. and other corporate-search specialists in a blossoming market.
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Business software units of Yahoo  Inc and Google Inc are introducing beefed-up versions of their  Web-based software that compete with Microsoft Outlook,  offering yet another clue why Microsoft Corp made a $45 billion  unsolicited bid for Yahoo.