Look out Google: Microsoft is keen to compete, with its offer to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion in cash and stock. The deal was shot down, but Microsoft has made it clear that it will stop at nothing to take over the company. Such a move could redraw the landscape in Internet consumer services, where Microsoft and Yahoo have long stayed in Google's shadow.http://www.newser.com/2008 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorSun, 07 Sep 2008 8:55:45 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/33125/an-independent-yahoo-is-hard-to-imagine.html?refid=rss_all_defaultYahoo’s earnings report yesterday didn’t portend an immediate turnaround, Catherine Holahan writes in BusinessWeek , meaning the company must do something to meet the “grandiose claims” it made in rejecting Microsoft’s bid. Some still see Yahoo ultimately taking that path, and expanding its deal with Google is another option that might justify Yahoo standing firm on its third-quarter and yearly forecasts.http://www.newser.com/story/33125/an-independent-yahoo-is-hard-to-imagine.html?refid=rss_all_defaultWed, 23 Jul 2008 8:09:18 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/32954/deal-puts-icahn-on-yahoo-board.html?refid=rss_all_defaultYahoo will add two seats to its board of directors and put Carl Icahn in one of them, reports the Wall Street Journal, in a deal that ends Icahn’s proxy fight. Eight of Yahoo’s current board members, including CEO Jerry Yang, will keep their seats, while a ninth will resign. The board will select two members of Icahn’s proxy slate to fill his seat, and the newly created one.http://www.newser.com/story/32954/deal-puts-icahn-on-yahoo-board.html?refid=rss_all_defaultMon, 21 Jul 2008 7:10:28 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/32837/yahoo-takes-icahn-fight-to-homepage.html?refid=rss_all_defaultA new button on Yahoo's homepage links users to the company's case against activist investor Carl Icahn, PC World reports. Icahn is seeking to unseat Yahoo's board at its Aug. 1 general meeting. The page links to voting forms and leaves shareholders in no doubt how the company thinks they should vote: A purple banner carries the Icahn quote, "It's hard to understand these technology companies."http://www.newser.com/story/32837/yahoo-takes-icahn-fight-to-homepage.html?refid=rss_all_defaultSat, 19 Jul 2008 7:43:20 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/32616/microsoft-meets-with-aol-to-explore-possible-deal.html?refid=rss_all_defaultMicrosoft will sit down today with executives from Time Warner's AOL to explore a joint venture between the two companies, reports the Wall Street Journal. The software giant is looking for alternatives to its failed Yahoo buyout. Microsoft and Time Warner have been considering a deal for months, though no specifics have been ironed out. Yahoo, meanwhile, is pursuing its own talks with AOL as it fights off a hostile takeover attempt led by Carl Icahn.http://www.newser.com/story/32616/microsoft-meets-with-aol-to-explore-possible-deal.html?refid=rss_all_defaultWed, 16 Jul 2008 14:55:15 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/32569/sparks-fly-as-yahoo-microsoft-take-to-hill.html?refid=rss_all_defaultCongressional hearings on Yahoo's proposed ad deal with Google got a little heated yesterday, with a Microsoft lawyer testifying that Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang recently admitted, in a private meeting, that the pact would reduce competition, the Los Angeles Times reports. Yahoo’s general counsel said he recalled no such remarks at the meeting, and a spokesman later swatted the charge aside.http://www.newser.com/story/32569/sparks-fly-as-yahoo-microsoft-take-to-hill.html?refid=rss_all_defaultWed, 16 Jul 2008 9:23:33 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/32401/its-googles-turn-on-the-hot-seat.html?refid=rss_all_defaultYou have to forgive Microsoft if it indulges in some schadenfreude today, writes Brier Dudley of the Seattle Times. Archrival Google is facing a peril that’s all too familiar in Redmond. Steve Ballmer can sit back tomorrow as Google’s top execs go before the Senate subcommittee on antitrust, secure in the knowledge that he helped put them there.http://www.newser.com/story/32401/its-googles-turn-on-the-hot-seat.html?refid=rss_all_defaultMon, 14 Jul 2008 12:52:27 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/32316/yahoo-snubs-microsoft-icahn-takeover-bid.html?refid=rss_all_defaultYahoo has rejected another takeover push, this time from Microsoft and investor Carl Icahn, the Wall Street Journal reports. The bidders gave the Internet giant less than 24 hours to decide on an offer that would sell its search component to Microsoft and the rest of the company to Icahn in a move that would have required Yahoo to dump its current board.http://www.newser.com/story/32316/yahoo-snubs-microsoft-icahn-takeover-bid.html?refid=rss_all_defaultSun, 13 Jul 2008 5:55:27 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/31983/yang-slams-destabilizing-microsoft-plan.html?refid=rss_all_defaultYahoo CEO Jerry Yang launched a fresh offensive in the Yahoo-Microsoft war of words yesterday, reports the Wall Street Journal . Microsoft has said it would be interested in reopening merger talks if Yahoo's current board was replaced—but the Yahoo co-founder accuses the company of tactics to destabilize Yahoo without any real interest in cutting a deal.http://www.newser.com/story/31983/yang-slams-destabilizing-microsoft-plan.html?refid=rss_all_defaultWed, 09 Jul 2008 1:37:52 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/31860/sports-columnists-lost-in-digital-transition.html?refid=rss_all_defaultSports columnists are leaving behind their local teams and newspaper readership in droves for the greener pastures of the online and television worlds, and it's "something to be lamented," writes Robert Weintraub in the Columbia Journalism Review . “The gifted sports columnists often delivered the best writing in the entire paper,” serving as an insightful cheerleader or investigative instrument of a city’s frustration.http://www.newser.com/story/31860/sports-columnists-lost-in-digital-transition.html?refid=rss_all_defaultThu, 10 Jul 2008 0:03:10 CDT