As stated in my June 13th posting on TradeMediaBlog, Yahoo! is now partnering with Google and Eric Schmidt and his boys are laughing all the way to global domination.
A few related articles that you may find of interest:
New York Times - Oh Jerry, It’s No Longer Your Baby
TechCrunch - NYTimes Article Reverberates Through Yahoo; Who’s [...]

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Looks like the boys at Microsoft have finally walked away from Yahoo! after Jerry Yang tried to get them to revive their last takeover bid of US$47.5 billion.
Yahoo said Microsoft “unequivocally” rejected the notion of buying the entire company in a meeting held Sunday.
Now what?
Well, the company’s annual meeting is August 1st where they will [...]

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Microsoft is back and offering a new deal to Yahoo!.
Microsoft Corp has proposed to buy Yahoo Inc’s search business and take a minority stake in the Web pioneer, stopping short of a full-out merger, a person familiar with the discussions said on Monday.
As part of the deal, Yahoo would sell its Asian assets including significant [...]

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It has been a busy week for Alibaba.com with a flurry of news releases. TradeMediaBlog is happy to bring them to you below with comments.
Alibaba.com formerly announced the often referred to Joint Venture with Softbank. This US$20 million deal (Softbank 65%; Alibaba.com 35%) will hopefully put some marketing/sales muscle behind a site that has been [...]

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Lots of online media news in the last week that I will try to capture below along with a some comments. Forgive me for this long posting but worth a read!
On May 6th, Alibaba.com reported great Q1-08 numbers that beat all analysts’ expectations. The company saw net income double Y-O-Y (US$43 million) and sales increased [...]

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Reed Elsevier, the largest business-to-business publisher in the United States, announced that it is selling its business and trade magazine division, Reed Business Information.
According to Sir Crispin Davis, CEO of Reed Elsevier, “RBI is a well-managed high quality business as evidenced by the success of its online growth and the control of costs. Its advertising [...]

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Given all the recent hype around the Microsoft bid for Yahoo! and Google’s immediate defense (or offense), I wanted to provide a few search statistics to give you a different perspective on this pending deal.
Hitwise, a U.S.-based internet monitor which collects data directly from ISP networks, reported that for the week ending January 26, a [...]

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Last Friday, Microsoft offered to by Yahoo! for US$44.6 billion.
Many articles say it is an effort to strengthen their battle against rival Google; however, there are many other underlying advantages to this transaction. One includes Alibaba Group and its ability to help Microsoft in China through its many, well positioned businesses in [...]

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