Been a while since there’s been much news on the possible Microsoft/Yahoo! acquisition. This time however, it is Yahoo! board of directors, at least some of them who are “willing to entertain any legitimate offers or ideas to improve the … Continue reading
Oracle has pushed out JAVA Version 6 Update 20 to address a sever security exploit. While I am usually pretty good about keeping my plugins such as JAVA updated I did notice I currently had Update 16 installed This update … Continue reading
Back on May 1st, The Firefox Extension Guru’s Blog turned 3. Taking a looking back around May 1st for the past 3-years, here were some of the big news items: 2006 Mike Schroepfer announced developers were yanking Places from the … Continue reading
While nothing official has been released by Microsoft, The Times of London is reporting Microsoft Corp. has resumed its pursuit of Yahoo in a deal that could cost the Redmond-based company $20 billion, less than half of what it offered … Continue reading
…Yahoo’s stock goes up or (in most cases) down dramatically . A follow-up to yesterday’s post Microsoft/Yahoo: Ballmer “We are done…” At Wednesday’s shareholders’ meeting Ballmer said, “We are done with all acquisition discussions with Yahoo. I’ve said that a … Continue reading
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has once again said they are done with the talks of a merger. He addressed this question at the annual shareholder meeting today in Bellevue, Washington: “We are done with all acquisition discussions with Yahoo. I’ve … Continue reading
Current Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang has announced today he is stepping down and returning to his former role as Chief Yahoo! The news ends an embattled tenure for the Yahoo co-founder, who took over as CEO in June 2007, replacing … Continue reading
With Yahoo’s stock plummeting to $12.29 a share on Friday (October 10), a Yahoo investor is urging Yahoo to sell itself to Microsoft for $22 a share. From Reuters: Under the proposal by investment fund Mithras Capital, Microsoft would unload … Continue reading
Nearly 4 months since the deal was called off, a research report from Rob Sanderson with American Technology Research today indicates that it is “increasingly likely” that Microsoft would make another bid for Yahoo at a “significantly lower” price. However, … Continue reading
Wow, I have to say I am impressed at the number of comments I have received on the Google Chrome post. Further it has been a while since this blog has gotten this much traffic. Anyway, I’ve been thinking about … Continue reading