Yahoo, once known for great products and their ability to
connect to the common man, now makes news of the wrong kind by
tussling with Microsoft and waging a war of words with investors
like Carl Icahn that lead to sharp declines in their market
valuation. Against such a bleak backdrop, talent exodus
continues and signs-up arch rival Google as an advertising
supplier. What next? Perhaps, an anti-trust investigation.
Continue Reading.  Update: It isn’t quite black Thursday, but it
is still a day Yahooligans are not going to forget for a while.
First they announced that their deal with Microsoft is off.
Microsoft responded with a note of disappointment. Their stock
tanked — down $2.63 a share, or 10 percent, for the day. The
continuous slide in Yahoo stock — now less than $10 a share than
what Microsoft offered — assures that Yahoo has lost almost all
of its friends on Wall Street. The greed gremlins like Carl
Icahn are only going to increase their attacks on the
beleaguered Internet company, and would like to