Venture Beat is reporting that Yahoo’s Zimbra has 40 Million Paid Email boxes, which is gives it more paid mailboxes than Google’s Free Gmail and it’s paying Apps (Gmail) For Your Domain customers, and puts it close behind AOL and Microsoft’s Hotmail services. While Zimbra’s...

In an earlier post I talked about a new Yahoo/Microsoft/3rd party deal rumor. Well, it is looking like it may just be that, a rumor. According to Bloomberg, an unidentified Microsoft spokesperson is denying the rumor. We will have to wait to see if this is a real denial or a fake denial. Easy come, easy...

Well, it looks like there is another rumor going around that Yahoo has another suitor. This time according to Micheal Arrington over at Techcrunch it is a group of high-powered Silicon Valley Execs that will be making a run at Yahoo, using Microsoft as their bank. As Arrington points out, the credit...

Steve Ballmer, the Microsoft CEO, responded to the latest plea for an acquisition from Jerry Yang, Yahoo’s CEO, by essentially telling them to get lost. After successfully fending off a hostile Microsoft acquisition, a near shareholder revolt, a mass exodus of high level staff, and their stock...

It looks like Google finally did bailout of their proposed Ad Deal with Yahoo in an effort to avoid a long legal battle with the DOJ, which was ready file suit to block the deal. I had advocated this in a recent post. This was the right thing to do on Google’s part, and they were right to delay...

It is being reported today that Google may bailout of it’s proposed partnership with Yahoo on Ad serving. The deal was announced in June as a way to provide Yahoo a lifeline and cover with it’s shareholders during the Microsoft hostile takeover fiasco. However, thanks to intense lobbying...

It seems that Adobe has teamed with Google and Yahoo to allow for greater indexing and searching capabilities for Flash based web sites. This new endeavor will allow Yahoo and Google to “uncover information that is currently undiscoverable by search engines”. This is a good move by Adobe, as many...

Since Jerry Yang and the rest of the Yahoo board rejected the unsolicited Microsoft buyout offer the news has been dominated by talk of Carl Ichan, shareholder lawsuits, poison-pills, etc. all complaining that the company is not acting in the best interest of the shareholders. These people need to get...

Tonight on the Science Channel “Download: The True Story Of The Internet” premiered with one show dedicated to “Search” and one for “The Browser Wars”. I managed to catch “Search”, which chronicled the origination of the search engine from Yahoo! to Google....

Yesterday I wrote about how we should do everything we can to save Yahoo! from certain death at the hands of Microsoft. That got me thinking over the course of my day about Who else should be looking at buying Yahoo! if they are on the block. So below is just few tech companies on my list and some of...