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• Forum: Yahoo raid 'refocusing' move by Microsoft

  Last weekend, with the news of Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo just breaking, this journalist set out to write a quick opinion piece about the local impact of such a deal.

• Opinion: Dancing portal partnership polka

  Things are only just beginning to settle down after the last year's round of portal partnership polka, which saw Telecom dump its alignment with MSN in favour of Yahoo and MSN then strike a deal with magazine publisher ACP, among others.

• Ballmer rebuffs Google's anticompetitive charge

  Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer rebuffed Google's accusations that an acquisition of Yahoo would be anticompetitive.

• Analysis: Yahoo bid could backfire lest Microsoft changes ways

  Microsoft's US$44.6 billion (NZ$56 billion) offer to purchase Yahoo is a dramatic statement from a company that delayed acknowledging the importance of emerging web business models for so long, it faced becoming an also-ran in the Web 2.0 economy.

• Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo for US$44.6 billion

  Microsoft has offered to buy Yahoo for around US$44.6 billion (NZ$56.2 billion) in cash and shares, to better compete with Google in the market for online services.

• Xtra mobile email another Bubble victim

  Xtra domain-name customers have lost their cellphone email service in the wake of Xtra’s new Yahoo alliance and have no idea when it will resume.

• Yahoo settles with jailed journo

  Yahoo has settled a lawsuit brought against it on behalf of imprisoned Chinese journalist Shi Tao, and pro-democracy writer Wang Xiaoning, according to court documents. It has also agreed to pay the plaintiff's legal costs. Terms of the settlement were not disclosed and Yahoo could not be reached for comment.

• Report: Yahoo mistakenly blows the lid off new service

  As if Yahoo didn't have enough trouble already in social networking, a company employee tipped a New York Times reporter by mistake about a new, unannounced service called Yahoo Mash.

• Xtra still dealing with aftermath of the Bubble bursting

  Telecom’s launch of the Yahoo!Xtra Bubble service got the public’s attention for all the wrong reasons after last weekend's outages which saw thousands of customers cut off from email service, flooded with spam and unable to get through to Xtra’s helpline.

• Telecom apologises, says email issues resolved

  Telecom says email faults that have dogged its service over the weekend and into this week are now resolved.

• Web threatens traditional news organisations

  The internet is a threat to traditional news organisations, which no longer have the advantage of being the first to report breaking news online, according to a Harvard University study (pdf) released last week.

• Yahoo’s Panama engine slices NZ into 16 pieces

  Yahoo is switching New Zealand and Australian customers over to its revamped search engine advertising system, Panama, and hopes to have them using the new technology by August.

• Yahoo opens access to advertising system APIs

  Yahoo is making APIs (application programming interfaces) available for external developers so they can build tools and applications for its new Panama search advertising platform.

• Microsoft tops web traffic in December

  Microsoft drew the largest number of web site visitors worldwide in December, a recurring accomplishment that makes the company's disappointing online ad business all the more disconcerting.

• Yahoo to preview Messenger for Windows Vista

  Yahoo will give users a preview of what it will be like to use a new and improved version of Yahoo Messenger on Microsoft's Windows Vista at the 2007 International Consumer Electronics Show this year.