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...When Microsoft started hunting Yahoo in February, many assumed that the software behemoth would bag the company swiftly and efficiently. Yahoo seemed to be classic weak Web prey, wobbling financially while rival Google continued to dominate the online world. Now, just days after Microsoft's threat to take its modest offer directly to shareholders, Chief Yahoo Jerry Yang is fighting back...
...Rumors are flying that Yahoo is teaming up with AOL, the long-suffering Internet division of Time Warner (which is also the parent company of TIME), as a way to stave off an unwanted merger. At the same time, there are reports that Microsoft is buddying up with News Corp. so that the two companies can increase Yahoo's offering price and corner their catch. While many industry watchers still believe that Microsoft will gobble up Yahoo eventually, chances are it will have to pay a lot more for its meal...
...Microsoft buys Yahoo by teaming with News Corp...
...information was available elsewhere and not central to the dispute. Since the dispute began on Harvard’s campus, Facebook’s revenues and user ship have skyrocketed. The site boasts 69 million active users, intense use by college-age consumers, and a market value that Microsoft has estimated at $15 billion. —Aparicio J. Davis contributed to the reporting of this story. —Staff writer Clifford M. Marks can be reached at cmarks@fas.harvard.edu...
What do metalsmithing, manners, and Microsoft Excel have in common? If Jay M. Harris and the Undergraduate Council’s ideas come to fruition, you could spend your first January term, or “J-term,” taking a three-week course in such subjects. For 45 minutes at last night’s Undergraduate Council (UC) meeting, Harris, the chair of the Gen Ed Committee, and Council members traded opinions about a J-term, the optional winter term in January that will be implemented along with the new calendar in 2009-2010. Debate focused...