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Who's Messing With the Google Book Settlement? Hint: They're in Redmond,
Washington
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| The only obstacle remaining for the settlement to take effect is final court
| approval. Given a case of this scope, it's not too surprising that a number
| of interested parties might lodge objections or ask for changes. Nor is it
| terribly surprising that at least one party nudging its way into the
| settlement is an internet-issues-oriented group from New York Law School.
|
| But what does raise an eyebrow is the source of New York Law's funding on
| this matter: Microsoft.
|
| [...]
|
| And, oh, by the way, he also discloses that the efforts of "the second oldest
| independent law school in the United States" is funded in part by Google's
| main competitor, Microsoft.
|
| The chief investigator of the New York Law School project is James
| Grimmelmann. In an earlier career phase, associate law professor Grimmelmann
| worked as a programmer for Microsoft.
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http://blog.wired.com/business/2009/03/whos-messing-wi.html
Microsoft: still a criminal organisation, by choice.
Recent:
Is Microsoft Guilty of Bogus* Polling? Yes.
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| That is classic push polling. If you want people to respond one way, ask them
| leading questions or feed them information that represents just one side in
| the debate. And it worked here: after hearing the statement about Barnett
| respondents (who, again, were not very familiar with the deal) claimed, by a
| score of 80-20 that government regulators did the right thing.
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http://blog.wired.com/business/2009/02/is-microsoft-gu.html
Carl Icahn increases his stake in Yahoo
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| According to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Icahn
| purchased roughly 6.8 million shares in Yahoo...
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http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/carl-icahn-increases-his-stake/story.aspx?guid=%7B8E93FB3F-0844-42E8-AEA7-FB1C6C3CE11B%7D&dist=msr_9
Yahoo stock rallies after Carl Icahn increases stake
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| The company's stock surged 93 cents, or nearly 9%, to $11.51 in the shortened
| trading session after Icahn, a Yahoo board member who has been pushing a
| strategy shift or a sale to Microsoft Corp., said he had bought about 6.8
| million shares.
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http://www.latimes.com/business/investing/la-fi-yahoo29-2008nov29,0,5381025.story
Related:
Icahn! goes! double! or! quits! on! Yahoo!
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| Talks with Microsoft are rumoured to be still going on - possibly just for
| its search business. And presumably Steve Ballmer is offering a lot less than
| $33 a share.
|
| Yang's supposed preferred response, an ad deal with Google, has also fallen
| through.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/27/icahn_yahoo_stake/
Microhoo: Ballmer takes off his gloves
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| What Ballmer means: Jerry, you are making us both look bad. It's time to get
| in gear, and if I have to bring on the irate dancing monkey and go straight
| to the shareholders, I will.
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http://www.news.com/8301-13953_3-9912291-80.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Microsoft Threatens Yahoo Board With Proxy Battle, Lower Bid
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| Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Steven A. Ballmer threatened Yahoo Inc.
| directors with a hostile takeover of the company if they don't reverse course
| and agree to a deal within the next three weeks.
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120741922713292671.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
Microsoft gives Yahoo three weeks to do a deal
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| Microsoft on Saturday issued an ultimatum to Yahoo, giving the Internet
| search pioneer three weeks to enter formal merger negotiations and conclude a
| deal.
|
| The software giant threatened to launch a proxy fight to unseat Yahoo's board
| of directors, as well as take its case straight to Yahoo investors should no
| deal be reached in that period.
|
| And as a further cattle prod in getting a deal consummated, Microsoft
| threatened to lower its existing bid, citing how Yahoo's value will be hurt
| if it needs to resort to such hostile means.
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9912349-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Bear Stearns's Advice To Microsoft
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| Co-founder Bill Gates can't be thrilled with watching
| Ballmer drain the company's cash. He didn't get so rich by buying at the top
| of the market.
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http://www.forbes.com/technology/2008/03/17/microsoft-bear-stearns-tech-ebiz-cx_ec_0316msft.html
Microsoft says to borrow money for Yahoo deal
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| Microsoft Corp said on Monday it may borrow money for the first time in its
| history to fund a portion of its $44.6 billion unsolicited offer for Yahoo
| Inc.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/companyNews/idUSN0455692920080205
Microsoft's DreamSpark – What a Giveaway
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| The rest of the $44.6bn (£22.3bn) deal would be financed with an undisclosed
| amount of credit.
|
| What that means is that it must squeeze as much money as it can from its
| operations to fund that debt and still pay dividends to shareholders, who
| will be looking for some payback from the Yahoo takeover. Giving away
| software is the last thing it would want to do in these circumstances, and
| the DreamSpark announcement shows just how worried it is about the future.
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/microsofts-dreamspark-%E2%80%93-what-giveaway
Yahoo says Microsoft's bid is distracting workforce
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| Yahoo stated the obvious in its annual report on Wednesday by saying
| Microsoft's bid to buy the company is distracting executives and employees.
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9881216-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Yahoo Battling 7 Shareholder Suits
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| Yahoo Inc. is facing seven shareholder lawsuits alleging the slumping
| Internet pioneer bungled its response to Microsoft Corp.'s unsolicited
| takeover bid.
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http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gM9JqF0rLcz49fPhWY44jXEPXTmgD8V2VAU03
Yahoo sued by Chinese dissidents again
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| Yahoo faces another lawsuit over its actions in China. Several Chinese men
| are suing the company and its Hong Kong subsidiary claiming they were harmed
| because of Yahoo's cooperation with the Chinese government.
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9881042-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Yahoo Sued for Spurning Microsoft
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| Two Detroit pension funds have sued Yahoo Inc. and its board of directors,
| saying they breached their duties to shareholders in trying to thwart a
| takeover by Microsoft Corp.
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http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jdD7c1YzAOB-suxU2tJ63WjFjxngD8UVK7J80
Microsoft's IBM Moment
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| News Commentary: Microsoft can only lose if it enters into a proxy fight
| against Yahoo.
|
| Supposedly, Microsoft is ready to make a hardball maneuver to replace Yahoo's
| board of directors. A proxy fight would be a highly aggressive move from a
| company that for years sought to remake its tarnished public image. Antitrust
| cases on two continents portrayed Microsoft as a bully, which is a label a
| Yahoo hostile takeover may just revive.
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http://www.microsoft-watch.com/content/corporate/microsofts_ibm_moment.html?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535
A Yahoo Proxy Contest: How Good Are Microsoft’s Chances?
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| Microsoft refuses to boost its Yahoo bid, valued at $31 a share a few weeks
| ago. It refuses so thoroughly, in fact, that the Redmond, Wash., software
| giant may be willing to wage a proxy battle to oust Yahoo’s board, according
| to this report. (To do that, Microsoft must nominate a new slate of directors
| for Yahoo within the next three weeks).
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http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2008/02/19/a-yahoo-proxy-contest-how-good-are-microsofts-chances/?mod=yahoo_hs
Microsoft Usually Doesn’t Do This Sort of Thing. Except It Does. All The Time.
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| When Microsoft proposed its $31 a share takeover of Yahoo, the deal’s rich
| 61% one-day premium seemed a necessary part of the audacious bid: at a price
| like that, who could refuse?
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http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2008/02/15/microsoft-usually-doesnt-do-this-sort-of-thing-except-it-does-all-the-time/?mod=yahoo_hs
How Yahoo went from Web star to Microsoft prey
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| A desperate, expensive bid to beat Google; turf wars among divisions
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http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/how-yahoo-went-web-star/story.aspx?guid=%7BB4CA2BEB%2D6DCC%2D41E6%2D871D%2DEC0DB6F67DC4%7D&siteid=yhoof
http://tinyurl.com/34uso2
Microsoft to Authorize Proxy Fight at Yahoo
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| In an escalation of its fight for Yahoo, Microsoft will authorize a proxy
| fight at the Internet company this week, people briefed on the matter told
| DealBook. Unless Yahoo quickly reverses course and enters into talks,
| Microsoft would then seek to nominate a slate of directors to Yahoo’s board
| by March 13, the final deadline for nominations, and pursue a lengthy
| campaign to oust the board.
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http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/19/microsoft-to-authorize-proxy-fight-at-yahoo/index.html?hp
Why Microsoft Should Fret
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| But what if at stake in the battle isn't just Microsoft's position in selling
| ads, but the very survival of its core software business? Microsoft would
| never admit that so much is on the line.
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120277476716860601.html?mod=yahoo_hs&ru=yahoo
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