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Friday May 23, 2008

Yahoo Director Departs, Annual Meeting Postponed

Yahoo board member Ed Kozel will not be up for reelection at Yahoo’s annual meeting, which had been scheduled for July 3rd. The longtime board member has reportedly resigned from Yahoo to spend more time with family. The now 9 member Yahoo board is facing a shareholder revolt for not accepting a buyout offer of nearly $50 billion from Microsoft. The annual meeting, which has been pushed back to an unspecified date at the end of July, will give Yahoo a chance to develop alternative plans to a sale to Microsoft that it hopes will satisfy shareholders.

http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-yahoo-director-ed-kozel-resigns/
http://mashable.com/2008/05/23/yahoo-board-member-leaves-first-signs-of-disintegration/
http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20080522/kozel/
http://www.forbes.com/technology/2008/05/22/yahoo-board-member-tech-ebiz-cx_wt_0522yahoo.html
http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/23/yahoo-nominates-existing-board/index.html

Latest comScore Search Stats: Google Up, Other Search Engines Down

Estimates released by Web traffic analysis company comScore show that Google has extended its leading overall search market share month over month, rising from about 60 percent, or 6.4 billion in March, to nearly 62 percent, or 6.5 billion in April, while Yahoo, Microsoft, AOL and Ask have all lost search market share month over month.

http://www.comscore.com/press/release.asp?press=2230
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D90QQPGO1.htm
http://mashable.com/2008/05/23/latest-comscore-search-stats-google-up-everyone-else-down/

Larry Page Takes 'White Space' Fight To D.C.

Google founder Larry Page made a trip to Washington on Thursday in the latest effort by Google and other companies, including Microsoft, Dell, Intel, and Hewlett Packard to lobby the Federal Communications Commission and other lawmakers to free up spectrum known as “white space” for unlicensed use by wireless devices. The television airwaves will soon be vacant once television broadcasters switch from analog to digital signals. The spectrum, which is part of 700MHz that was auctioned off by the FCC earlier this year, is ideal for sending data wirelessly over long distances and penetrating walls and could provide computer users Internet connections with greater speeds. TV broadcasters oppose the idea to allow the free use of unused analog spectrum, arguing that allowing wireless devices access to this spectrum could cause interference with some analog television broadcast channels.

http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSN2250113020080522
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121148523200515073.html
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/techinvestor/corporatenews/2008-05-22-google-page-microsoft_N.htm
http://www.forbes.com/technology/2008/05/22/larrypage-google-tech-wire-cx_ew_0522larry.html
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/may2008/tc20080522_623138.htm
http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_9356433
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9950954-7.html?tag=nefd.top

[edited by: Vanessa_Zamora at 4:53 pm (utc) on May 23, 2008]