Yahoo leadership, trying to stave off a major clash at its annual meeting on Aug. 1 with activist investor Carl Icahn, is contemplating offering him two board seats to assuage him, said several sources close to the situation.
Yahoo! News: Music News: AP - Jason Priestley says he got a crash course on the Nashville music industry while directing a reality series about the Canadian band the Road Hammers.
destinyland writes "8.7 million AOL subscribers face a new 20% fee increase next month — unless they agree to never call AOL's technical support lines. They'll have to use AOL chat for support or the online help "portal" unless their issue is a failed connection — and they're being enrolled in the program by default unless they opt out.
Yahoo! and Goldman Sachs, its Wall Street adviser, are understood to have scheduled the whole of the July 4 public holiday in the US, which begins tomorrow, engaged in talks with Time Warner.
We did a fun shoot here at AOL last week where a) pretended Mo Rocca has a morning b) and that on this morning show a drag queen shows the men at home how to dress up as Michelle Obama So that happened! Thanks to Dion Flynn for being our male volunteer and to Peppermint for being our drag queen expert!
New York - In the wake of their failed negotiations with one another, both Microsoft (NASD: MSFT) and Yahoo (NASD: YHOO) have been holding separate talks with other media partners on possible combinations, sources told The Wall Street Journal, Reuters and other outlets.
ADOTAS – The ongoing YouTube copyright suit is rearing its ugly head again – and now YouTube users could be affected. Privacy advocates are aflutter. This week, Manhattan District Judge Louis Stanton handed Google two partial victories in the $1 billion suit.
Watch out gamers, AOL has you firmly in its sights. AOL Games, Weblogs (publishers of Engadget and Joystiq), and Games.com announced the joint launch of BigDownload.com, a site aimed PC gamers. The site is set to offer game reviews, free downloads, and gaming news.
Yahoo is still entertaining the prospect of a full deal with AOL even in the wake of ending talks with Microsoft, alleged sources tell the Wall Street Journal. Those claimed to be aware of negotiations say AOL's parent company Time Warner is still i.
Yesterday came word that Microsoft was talking to Time Warner and News Corp. about potential deals to help it acquire Yahoo. So naturally today comes word that Yahoo is talking to those very same companies about doing similar deals — just without Microsoft, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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