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Yahoo Looks For Alternatives to Microsoft
Negotiations between Yahoo and Time Warner about a combination of Yahoo and AOL continue as Yahoo looks for alternatives to a Microsoft deal. Yahoo also is engaged in talks with News Corp...

Reports about Possible Yahoo and Microsoft Deals
The news today is full of behind-the-scenes dealmaking involving Microsoft and Yahoo. First, it is reported that News Corp. (Rupert Murdoch) and Microsoft are in talks about a joint bid for Yahoo that, if successful, would combine Yahoo, MSN, and...

Microsoft Withdraws Its Bid For Yahoo!
This just in:  Microsoft withdrew its most recent bid for Yahoo and announced it will not be making a hostile move for Yahoo.  This comes on the heels of the announcement a mere day ago that Yahoo and Microsoft were sitting down to try to hammer out a friendly deal...

Yahoo! and Microsoft Continue their "Talks"
Yahoo! and Microsoft are getting closer but the sniping continues. Yahoo! seems reconciled to the idea of becoming a Microsoft property as long as the price is right. So far, the Yahoo! board seems to think it's not...

Yahoo! and News Corp. Getting Squishy
The Yahoo!/Microsoft soap opera continues. In our last episode, Yahoo! had turned down Microsoft's offer of $44.6 billion offer to buy the company. Yahoo!'s stock rose and Microsoft's fell, affecting the real value of the deal...

Is Microsoft-Yahoo Merger Dead
Maybe the Microsoft-Yahoo merger is over. Microsoft reportedly has a list of nominees for the Yahoo board in the event it decides to go forward with a hostile takeover, and this Saturday is the date Microsoft previously gave Yahoo to...

Internet Gambling
Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo pay $31.5 million settlement for advertising and promoting illegal gambling sites online.

Microsoft Corp.
allegedly failed to provide adequate access and service to Xbox Live and its subscribers.

Murphy City, TX
$255,000 settlement in controversial pedophile news program case.

Newspaper Employees
Chinese Daily News must pay $5.19 million class action settlement for failing to pay overtime.

Rite Aid Corp. and Eckerd Corp.
allegedly failed to pay overtime to assistant store managers.

Microsoft
Settles with Arizona for $4.4 Million