Microsoft Withdraws Yahoo Bid, Internet and Markets React

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/05/technology/05soft.html
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/05/how-googles-checkbook-stymied-microsoft/
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120990343342465453.html
http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2008/05/04/ballmer-seals-all-yahoo-exits/
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSN0228397020080505
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120994677849266191.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7382572.stm
http://www.forbes.com/technology/2008/05/05/microsoft-google-technology-markets-equity-cx_ll_0505markets07.html
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/techinvestor/2008-05-03-microsoftyahoo_N.htm
http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2008/05/05/microsofts-cold-feet.aspx
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/145471/microsoft_abandons_yahoo_acquisition.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/04/microsoft_withdraws_yahoo_offer/
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/037446ae-197d-11dd-8a7c-0000779fd2ac.html
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601204&sid=aCxYfTn8GqcU
http://kara.allthingsd.com/20080504/boomtown-decodes-microsofts-steve-ballmers-letter-to-yahoo-the-kiss-off-edition/
http://www.informationweek.com/news/windows/operatingsystems/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207500797
http://money.cnn.com/2008/05/03/technology/microsoft_yahoo/index.htm
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/05/yahoos-black-monday-begins-with-shares-down-20-percent/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/may/05/yahoo.microsoft
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-microsoft5-2008may05,0,1405095.story
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/may2008/tc2008054_977513.htm

Storybids Launches Product Placement Auction House for Brand Integrations into Online Video

http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/080505/20080505005551.html
http://www.storybids.com/
http://www.storybids.com/howitworks.html
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/storybids-launches-product-placement-auction,378059.shtml

AOL contacts Microsoft as Steve Ballmer walks away from Yahoo! bid

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/markets/mergers_and_acquisitions/article3872866.ece

Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang Blogs, "OK, so now what?" / Plus E-mail to Employees

http://ycorpblog.com/2008/05/04/ok-so-now-what/
http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/05/yangs_words_to.html
http://www.forbes.com/technology/2008/05/04/yang-letter-employees-tech-intel-cx_wt_0504yang.html
http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=308131

The New Yorker: In the Air, Who says big ideas are rare? By Malcolm Gladwell

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/05/12/080512fa_fact_gladwell

Web Start-Ups Seek New Ways to Click

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120995177266566581.html

Pursuing the Next Level of Artificial Intelligence / Future Search Technologies

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/03/technology/03koller.html

Controversial UK Ad Firm Phorm CEO talks about targeted ads

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/7380364.stm

Google Co-founder Larry Page on how to change the world

http://money.cnn.com/2008/04/29/magazines/fortune/larry_page_change_the_world.fortune/index.htm

Microsoft Co-founder Bill Gates: Great To Be An Underdog Interview

http://www.forbes.com/technology/2008/05/04/gates-berkshire-underdog-tech-cx_eru_0504gates.html

Google Takes Down Open-source Video Codec Project After DMCA Complaint

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/145480/google_takes_down_opensource_project_after_dmca_complaint.html
http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/05/05/Google-takes-down-open-source-project-after-DMCA-complaint_1.html

China's Biggest Online Commerece Firm Alibaba Sees Shares Fall After Microsoft Scraps Yahoo Bid

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601204&sid=a315E1lCe4nY

Google CEO Eric Schmidt: Social networks are still too closed

http://www.news.com/8301-13953_3-9933627-80.html

WEB / OTHER

A Skeptical Eye on Web Auction Surcharges / Journal of Consumer Research Study

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/05/business/05drill.html

The No-Tasting Taste Test / Web Sites That Attempt To Replicate Real-world Experiences Online

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/03/technology/03online.html

Nokia and T-Mobile Collaborate on Mobile Services

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/145413/nokia_and_tmobile_collaborate_on_mobile_services.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSL057355820080505

Sports Illustrated to Take Fantasy Game to Facebook

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120995330086566597.html

Wiki Wedding Generation / Online Polling Tools

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120976478670563609.html

Electronics and Fashion Among Top eBay Searches / Compete.com Data

http://blog.compete.com/2008/05/02/ebay-search-wii-coach-xbox-webkinz/

Forvo: An Online Pronunciations Dictionary

http://www.somewhatfrank.com/2008/05/forvo-pronuncia.html

Shop with Your Cell Phone, Gartner Advises / Bank with Mobile Too, May Be Safest Choice Until iPhone, Android Use Grows

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/145247/shop_with_your_cell_phone_gartner_advises.html
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,145314-c,onlinesecurity/article.html

Hands on with Brightkite: real-world social networking

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080504-hands-on-with-brightkite-real-world-social-networking.html

Wikipedia Battles Literary Agent Over Negative Comments

http://www.informationweek.com/news/management/legal/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=E2UDFDREG2F2SQSNDLPSKHSCJUNN2JVN?articleID=207500346

The Dark Side of Web Anonymity

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_19/b4083064456431.htm