Clint Boulton

After Yahoo supposedly had no viable white knight to rescue it from the clutches of Microsoft, the company appears to be in discussions with Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. to discuss combining MySpace and other News Corp. online properties with Yahoo, according to the Wall Street Journal and blogs such as Silicon Alley Insider and Techcrunch. […]

Facebook must reassess the way it provides customer service or risk losing its massive audience to a rival, said a crisis management expert in the wake of a new profile data issue that is vexing some of the company’s 64 million users. Gene Grabowski, senior vice president of the Levick Communications’ crisis management team, said […]

When Microsoft told Yahoo it would “pursue all necessary steps” to ensure Yahoo shareholders knew the value of its rejected $44.6 billion offer for the embattled Internet company, the software maker implied it would pressure shareholders into a deal. It may not have to. Bill Miller, portfolio manager for Yahoo’s second-largest shareholder, Legg Mason, said […]

Google’s search software is joining the offerings of rivals Microsoft and Yahoo on Nokia’s smart phones. Expanding on a previous partnership, Nokia Feb. 12 said it will integrate Google’s search engine with its own search application, a deal that could help expand the search leader’s footprint in over 100 countries around the world. Nokia and […]

Several users who have tried to leave Facebook have posted unflattering tales of their experiences online, with some saying it has taken weeks or months to extract themselves entirely from the popular social networking service. A Facebook spokesperson told eWEEK that users can remove their information from Facebook by deactivating their accounts. Once a user […]

Yahoo isn’t acting like a company facing a hostile takeover from Microsoft. One day after rejecting Microsoft’s $44.6 billion offer, the company made a series of moves to fortify its Internet services. These include the acquisition of online video platform maker Maven Networks for $160 million, a key search deal with T-Mobile and the creation […]

In rejecting Microsoft’s $44.6 billion offer today, Yahoo’s board is essentially saying the software giant’s proposal isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on. This story isn’t over, not by a long shot. So, what happens now? Well, Microsoft isn’t talking but my feeling is this will go the route that Oracle-PeopleSoft did. Microsoft will make […]

Breaking more than a week of silence, Yahoo’s board of directors Feb. 11 rejected Microsoft’s purchase bid of $44.6 billion because it “substantially undervalues” the company. After meeting with Yahoo’s management team, financial and legal advisers by phone Feb. 8, Yahoo’s board said Microsoft’s proposal doesn’t properly weigh Yahoo’s brand, worldwide audience, investments in advertising […]

Microsoft called the Yahoo board of directors’ rejection of the software company’s $44.6 billion offer “unfortunate,” and suggested it will press to get the deal done. “It is unfortunate that Yahoo! has not embraced our full and fair proposal to combine our companies,” Microsoft said in a statement issued almost nine hours after Yahoo posted […]

Salesforce.com is getting into the Web 2.0 spirit with two new applications that aim to use some good old crowdsourcing to make content and ideas easier to find and share. The SAAS (software as a service) specialist trotted out Salesforce Ideas and Salesforce Content as part of its Spring ’08 software release, which also includes […]