Microsoft’s hostile-takeover attempt against Yahoo may encounter an unexpected hurdle in August after a Chinese anti-monopoly law that will extend the nation’s economic influence far beyond its borders takes effect.
The law, effective Aug. 1, is intended to strengthen antitrust regulations the Chinese established in 1993. It will make China a third sphere of regulatory influence, […]
Yahoo has announced a new mobile phone service that integrates email, instant messaging and social networks.
Called oneConnect, the service is expected to launch this European spring, Marco Boerries, executive vice president for Connected Life at Yahoo, said today at the World Mobile Congress in Barcelona.
Its open architecture means users and other companies can eventually add […]
Almost eight years ago, Yahoo decided to lend a little start-up a helping hand, featuring its search technology on the Yahoo home page and giving it money at a critical juncture.
In cut-throat Silicon Valley, no good deed goes unpunished.
The start-up was Google, and Yahoo’s generosity helped launch the most formidable competitor it had ever encountered. […]
Yahoo Inc. has released a rosy outlook for the next two years, hoping to give investors a better understanding of why the slumping Internet pioneer isn’t willing to sell to Microsoft Corp. for less than $45 billion.
Analysts interpreted the company’s unscheduled disclosure yesterday as a sign that Yahoo’s attempts to find an alternative deal to […]
One of Yahoo’s potential white knights in its struggle to avoid being taken over by Microsoft just put his charger back in the stable.
News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch told a Bear Stearns conference in Palm Beach, Fla., Monday that he’s not going to battle the Redmond, Wash., software giant for Yahoo.
“It would be fun to […]
MICROSOFT will either combine or close duplicate internet services after purchasing Yahoo!, its chief executive officer, Steve Ballmer, has said.
“We shouldn’t have two of everything,” he told a Microsoft conference in Las Vegas on Thursday. “It won’t make sense.”
Microsoft and Yahoo! own competing search engines, advertising programs, and email and instant-messaging services. Microsoft, the world’s […]