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• Microsoft, Yahoo search deal faces DOJ review

  A Microsoft and Yahoo search deal, announced in July, will face an in-depth antitrust review from the U.S. Department of Justice, Microsoft has confirmed.

• Investor Carl Icahn sells 12.7 million Yahoo shares

  Carl Icahn, an investor who made waves last year for pushing Yahoo to accept Microsoft's merger bid, has sold 12.7 million shares of Yahoo stock in recent days, according to regulatory filings on Monday.

• Yahoo still considers itself a contender

  Remember Yahoo? Apparently the company forgot to read my post about how its star has faded, and it isn't yet ready to shut the doors and call it a day. Yahoo still feels it has a trick or two up its sleeve and deserves a seat at the grownups table with Microsoft and Google.

• Report: Microsoft, Yahoo, Amazon to fight Google book deal

  Microsoft, Amazon.com and Yahoo plan to join a consortium to fight a proposed settlement Google has made with authors and publishers over its Google Book Search service, according to a report published in The New York Times.

• Sun is setting for Yahoo search

  After a rollercoaster ride love/hate relationship between Microsoft and Yahoo over the past year, and various rumors and potential overtures between Yahoo and Google, the arrangement between Yahoo and Microsoft's Bing search engine is a nail in the coffin of Yahoo search.
  

• Future uncertain for Yahoo developer programs

  Yahoo's high-profile and widely used search APIs (application programming interfaces) and search programs for external developers are up in the air after the company's decision to outsource its search engine services to Microsoft.

• Microsoft plus Yahoo: it's all about Google

  Yahoo's announcement of a <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/169253/its_official_microsoft_and_yahoo_agree_to_10_year_partnership.html??tk=rel_news">10-year deal</a> with Microsoft did not mention Google, but we all know what Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz was talking about in her blog post aimed at users.

• Bing was tipping point in Microsoft-Yahoo deal

  The successful launch of Microsoft's revamped search engine, Bing, was likely the event that tipped the scales in favor of Yahoo agreeing to a search deal, analysts said.

• Yahoo China missing from Microsoft search deal

  The search tie-up between Yahoo and Microsoft does not affect Yahoo's China properties, which are controlled by e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, the group said Thursday.

• Microhoo at last and lots of security news

  Well, we can all sleep a little easier now that Microsoft and Yahoo have finally announced details of the search deal they have worked on for months (and that has kept some of us on the edge, as tidbits of the story had an unsavory habit of breaking on weekends). All of the details, and then some, can be found by following the links in this week's top entry. Otherwise, with the Black Hat conference under way, there was a load of security news, with DefCon to follow this weekend (no rest for the weary).

• Yahoo revenue drops, but profits rise 8 percent in Q2

  Yahoo on Tuesday reported second-quarter revenue of US$1.57 billion, down 13 percent from a year earlier as companies continued to spend less on advertising.

• Reports: Microsoft and Yahoo close to search ad deal

  In less than a week, Microsoft could reach an alliance with Yahoo that could compete better with Google in online search advertising, according to media reports.

• Former Yahoo exec Weiner takes over as LinkedIn CEO

  Former Yahoo executive Jeff Weiner has been appointed CEO of LinkedIn, where he has served as interim president since January.

• Report: Yahoo's CEO ready for a Microsoft deal

  Yahoo's CEO said Wednesday she was open to discussing a Microsoft acquisition, provided the deal were sweet.

• Yahoo taps Bartz as CEO, Decker walks

  Yahoo said on Tuesday it has chosen former Autodesk CEO Carol Bartz as its next CEO to replace Jerry Yang, who announced his intention to step down in November.