People Search Digest

Will the Shakespearean drama that is the Yahoo-Microsoft merger ever end? Not if Carl Icahn has anything to say about it. As you may recall, Icahn is the bullyish investor who advocated a total takeover of Yahoo’s board following the breakdown of Microsoft merger talks. Though Yahoo rebounded from its ill-fated affair with Microsoft by [...]

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Poor Yahoo.
As if dealing with testy shareholders, political intrigue, and departing executives wasn’t enough for the foundering company, it just got, like, totally dissed by Maxim Magazine. You know Maxim - that mag for post-adolescent, collar-popping guys everywhere. They’ve ditched Yahoo’s search engine in favor of Quintura’s semantic tag cloud search, which creates a tag [...]

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Like a psycho ex-girlfriend who won’t take the hint, Microsoft is still attempting to worm its way into Yahoo’s affections, despite having been humiliatingly dumped by the struggling search company for a relationship with the more attractive Google.
News has surfaced that Microsoft is continuing negotiations with Yahoo for a total buyout (off the record, naturally). [...]

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