Updated below: Yahoo and billionaire investor Carl Icahn have settled their looming proxy war.According to a statement Monday, Yahoo's board of directors will be expanded to 11 members and one of those seats will go to Icahn.
The Open Book Alliance, a group of library associations, Amazon, Yahoo and Microsoft, have officially unveiled an effort to derail Google's $125 million class action settlement with the Association of American Publishers and the Authors' Guild.
Dell said Monday that Brian Gladden will become the company's new chief financial officer.Gladden replaces Don Carty, who resigned effective June 13 (statement).
IBM told Twitter it believed the social networking company infringed on its patents. Twitter later acquired more than 900 patents from Big Blue and bolstered its intellectual property portfolio.
Apple is reportedly going to meet to weigh candidates for the board seat vacated by Google CEO Eric Schmidt.According to the Wall Street Journal, Apple directors will meet Tuesday to discuss Schmidt's replacement.
Disney announced a geolocation partnership with Gowalla and may take the whole sector mainstream.
Updated: EBay has gone public with the details of its lawsuit against Craigslist and its two shareholders Craig Newmark and James Buckmaster. While suit details alleged self-dealing by Newmark and Buckmaster and a rift over eBay's Kijiji unit, which competes with Craigslist, it's worth pondering the motives--and perceptions--here.
Yahoo says it has rejected another offer from Microsoft and Carl Icahn. The latest offer, delivered Friday, was another gambit to acquire Yahoo's search business.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Google CEO Larry Page will have their duels throughout the years. Those duels are likely to pick up once Facebook raises truckloads of cash.
Venture capitalists are having a confidence crisis as dwindling exit opportunities and a weak economy conspire to put the kibosh on returns.According to the Silicon Valley Venture Capital Confidence Index the second quarter registered a reading of 3.