Yahoo Is Close to Combining With AOL

Yahoo! Inc., fending off Microsoft Corp.’s $44.6 billion acquisition offer, is close to striking an agreement to combine operations with Time Warner Inc.’s AOL unit, a person familiar with the situation said.

Yahoo would gain control of AOL, receive an investment from Time Warner, and give up a 20 percent stake in the combined entity, said [...]

Yahoo Again Turns Down Microsoft Offer, Looking For Sweeter Bid

Yahoo’s response to the latest inquisition by Microsoft about the company’s proposed takeover bid sparked heavy coverage in major print and online news sources. Analysts emphasized their belief that Yahoo has been unable to find a partner to team with instead, and they are certain that as time goes on, Yahoo is weakening its ability [...]

Yahoo Watch: Unlimited Mail reaches its Limits?

“The Wall Street Journal’s tech blog reports trouble with Yahoo mail. Namely, it seems that keeping several years’ worth of e-mail in a Yahoo “unlimited” inbox causes a nasty error and the vanishing of all that mail. Thanks to the Journal’s high profile, a fix is now expected in “a month or so.” Last I [...]

Facebook to Settle Thorny Lawsuit Over Its Origins

Facebook is close to putting an uncomfortable and embarrassing legal episode behind it.
ConnectU founders Tyler Winklevoss, left, and Cameron Winklevoss, right, and Divya Narendra. (Photo: Charles Krupa/Associated Press)
A person briefed on the status of dueling lawsuits between Facebook and the competing site ConnectU said on Sunday that Facebook was finalizing a settlement with the founders [...]

Microsoft Pressures Yahoo To Make Decision Regarding Takeover Bid

Microsoft Pressures Yahoo To Make Decision Regarding Takeover Bid. Microsoft’s ultimatum to Yahoo regarding its proposed takeover bid sparked heavy coverage in the print and online news sources. Writers seemed confident that Yahoo has little choice but to accept Microsoft’s offer if it wants [...]

Yahoo To Launch New Web Ad Sales System

The Wall Street Journal (4/7, Delaney, B4, 2.06M) reports, “Yahoo Inc. is releasing more-detailed plans for an online-ad system aimed at increasing revenue from graphical display advertising, such as banner ads.” The effort “is a bet that advertisers and Web publishers will be attracted to buy and sell Internet ads across a range of Yahoo [...]

AOL Ad Project, ‘Platform A,’ Plots Plan B

Digital Effort Aiming To Unite Multiple Fronts Faces Various Obstacles
By EMILY STEEL
March 26, 2008; Page B6
Over the past two years, Lynda Clarizio has helped build Advertising.com, AOL’s ad network, into one of the hottest properties in online advertising. Her reward: She gets to try to clean up one of the Internet company’s messiest divisions.

Time Warner’s [...]