The Yahoo Lawsuits Begin: Put the Non-Blabby Deals in Your PIPE and Smoke It

Well, that didn’t take long, did it?
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Yahoo Stock Gets Gaslit by Bidders Dangling Phantom $20-a-Share Bid

There is no $20 bid for Yahoo today. So why was it suddenly news? Time to blame Wall Street again.
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All Eyes on Yahoo’s Q3 Earnings Tomorrow, With Results Under Pressure

How the Silicon Valley Internet giant fares this quarter will be closely watched.
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Yahoo’s Interim CEO in Internal Meeting: “Time Is a Constraint” (Also, Blame the Media!)

I don’t know why I am not just invited to these Yahoo gatherings, since it would make my life a lot easier.
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Alibaba’s Jack Ma at Stanford: “We Are Very Interested” in Buying the “Whole” of Yahoo

In answer to a direct question about whether his company was going to buy Yahoo at a forum at Stanford University in Silicon Valley this afternoon, Alibaba Chairman and CEO Jack Ma said: “We are very interested” in buying all of it.
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What Was Behind the Timing of Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz’s Abrupt Ouster?

So why was the ousted CEO of Yahoo shown the door so abruptly? Because it is Yahoo, which never met a crisis situation it could not hopelessly complexify.
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Exclusive: Ning Is Being Shopped Around at $150M Price Tag

Ning — the high-profile social networking platform co-founded by Silicon Valley investor and icon Marc Andreessen — is for sale, said sources.
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G5 Idled? Check! Name Tags On? Check! Weeklong Mogul Fest in Sun Valley Will End With Zuckerberg-Gates Chit-Chat.

In case you haven’t heard, the tech and media moguls have jetted their private planes to Sun Valley, Idaho, for the exclusive annual Allen & Company confab and are probably easing into the cocktail hour just about now. Break out the Kistler Chardonnay and name tags!

Dancing Queen: After Meeting With Microsoft Last Week, Yahoo Is Next on Hulu’s Sales Card

Here’s a handy helper for those following the fate of the Hulu premium online video service, whose noisy efforts to sell itself have gotten a lot of attention of late: “In preliminary talks” = “hawking itself to one of a half dozen big moneybag tech companies who will visit with Hulu’s bankers and management to see its presentation at Morgan Stanley’s office in Century City in Los Angeles.”

Exclusive: Myspace Sale Nearing End Today With Low $30M Price and Buyer You Never Heard Of

Have you ever heard of Specific Media? What about Golden Gate Capital? One of them is likely to be the new owner of Myspace by Thursday, as the deal to sell the distressed social networking icon goes down to the wire for a $20 million to $30 million price and massive layoffs.
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Real Estate Site Trulia Acquires Movity

Apple Buys Old HP Campus