In a post one commenter characterized as “Some guys are talking about pitching Microsoft on a crazy scheme”, Michael Arrington at TechCrunch says he’s hearing of a complicated deal, still early on, that would have a group of investors buy Yahoo!, heavily financed by Microsoft, who would then get the...

Of all of Microsoft’s live services, Live Search could be far and away the most interesting story of 2009.  New leadership, increased pressure to perform, lingering questions about a Yahoo! search deal, the coming of age of new technologies, and quite possibly even a whole new name are all stories...

While talk of the weekend may have been around whether or not a $20bn Microsoft-Yahoo search deal is back on the cards, there were a few other bits and pieces that caught my eye. Firstly was Mary Jo Foley's post about the continued push to rebrand Live Search as Kumo . Mary-Jo has jumped on some...

A piece in the online version of Sunday’s Times of London is reporting that Microsoft and Yahoo are in talks again , in a complex deal that could see Microsoft acquiring Yahoo’s search business for $20 billion, after putting up $5 billion to fund a new management team headed reportedly by...

On Saturday we got the Yahoo! spin on things, and now this morning Carl Icahn fires back, in an open letter to Yahoo! shareholders.  I mentioned the heavy amount of spin in the Yahoo! press release, and Icahn noticed, too: Over the years I have attempted to make changes at many companies but I have...