So that “record” that “casts doubt on whether Microsoft was ever committed to a whole company acquisition” of Yahoo? Entirely a product of Yahoo’s imagination, apparently. Because in a statement issued this morning, Microsoft said that it is open to discussing a “major transaction” with Yahoo–if the company sacks CEO Jerry Yang and replaces its board of directors at its annual meeting next month.
“Microsoft’s hostile bid for Yahoo raises troubling questions,” Google chief legal officer David Drummond wrote back in February.
Troubling indeed. Almost as troubling as the questions raised by Google’s partnership with Yahoo, as Kevin Johnson, president of Microsoft’s Platforms and Services Division, pointed out during a panel discussion at the Cannes Debate today.
John Paczkowski has been poking fun at the tech industry and the personalities that drive it since 1997. From 1999 to 2007, he wrote the award-winning tech news Web log Good Morning Silicon Valley for the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley's daily newspaper.
Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.
Best video mashup ever.
A Facebook Memorial
Wow.
Worth it for the Rickrolling photo alone.
Excellent.
Flughumor!
… you vacuous, toffee-nosed, malodorous perverts
Stephen Fry and zoologist Mark Carwardine meet the kakapo — a fat, flightless and very randy rare parrot.
Spectacular in the bellowing Russian sailor sense of the word …
“If you spell something wrong on your insurance claim, do you really deserve surgery? I don’t think so …”
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