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I’m happy to announce that Yahoo! is having an open house this weekend.  This sophisticated company offers the history of pre-dot-com but the aged experience of Web 2.0.  It has everything any monolithic M&A seeking buyer is looking for.
Not only does Yahoo come with a fully equipped search engine, it also has several other properties […]

A couple sources tell us that Jerry Yang is in talks with Neville Isdell of Coca Cola and Hormel president Jeffrey M. Ettinger about a possible alternative plan to the Microsoft acquisition.
In this plan, Coke and Hormel would trade ownership of the Minute Maid and Stagg Chili brands to Yahoo, in exchange for 30% […]

According to sources close to the deal, Microsoft will be offering Yahoo engineers free copies of Visual Studio and Windows Vista as part of a “generous retention package” they will be offering after an acquisition.

It looks like this company cannot do anything right. Their old url to the HR part of the intranet was yet another failure from Yahoo management, so they sent out a memo.
The full memo after the jump.

What do you do when your baby is eaten up by Yahoo and all your users driven away? I’m hearing from multiple people that Stewart Butterfield spends his days mumbling about the New World Order locked in a conference room in Flickr’s downtown offices. I also had one source tell me that Butterfield has stopped […]