Four Yahoo Board Members to Depart, Two New Ones Arrive and Three More on the Way (Like I Said)

Yahoo moves chairs around the deck some more.
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Yahapocalypse Now? Q4 Results, Proxy Fight, Board Hijinks and Asia Solution Combine for Busy Month for Yahoo.

A perfect storm for the Silicon Valley Internet giant or just another day at “The Office”?
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Three Months After Bartz’s Firing, It’s Hurry Up and Wait at Yahoo (A Big Honking Update)

Still no sale or investment deal. No new CEO. No Asia resolution. And, perhaps most importantly, no clearly articulated strategy going forward. Other than that …
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With No-Yahoo-CEO Pledge, David Kenny Back in the Strategic Fray

What will David Kenny do? Maybe get something cooking in the whole what-will-Yahoo-do stakes, now that one of Yahoo’s more active board members is back.
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Microsoft’s Brad Smith: We Haven’t Seen an Android Product That Doesn’t Infringe on Our Patents

General counsel Brad Smith says Redmond wants a standard per-unit royalty on all Android hardware and says today’s deal with Samsung could mark a “tipping point” in the patent wars.
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Microsoft PR Ninja Strikes Back at Google Patent Whine With Email Jujitsu

Google waxes on, so Microsoft waxes off.
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Microsoft’s Android-Related Patent Moves Have a Familiar Ring

Redmond tried a similar approach several years back as the company looked to get companies using Linux to license Microsoft’s patents. But the upside could be even bigger this time, with the real possibility that Microsoft could make more revenue from patent licenses to Android phone makers than it does from selling its Windows Phone operating system.
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Irony Alert: Microsoft Files Formal Complaint Against Google With EC

Microsoft’s legal eagle Brad Smith didn’t even bother to pretend the software giant’s filing of a formal antitrust complaint against Google with the European Commission wasn’t a wee bit ironic. Wrote Smith in a blog post late last night: “There of course will be some who will point out the irony in today’s filing.” You think?

Nokia Adds to Apple Patent Spat in Europe

Yahooglesoft Lawyers Speak!