Google has announced that it will buy Motorola for $12.6bn, a premium of over 63% on its share price, and with it sending a massive shockwave through the industry.

As the dust settles and the tech world ponders the announcement that Google...

Part of the deal that Yahoo made with billionaire investor, and once rebel shareholder, was that he could nominate three of his pals to the Yahoo board.

One dropped out but the two remaining businessmen have now been named and brought into...

The details are now coming through from Yahoo's AGM, and they reveal exactly how close the company's top management came to losing their jobs.

Although the Yahoo board had acted weeks previously to placate one of their most vocal dissenting...

Carl Icahn, rebel shareholder and vocal billionaire, may have been placated, but Yahoo still faced dissent at its much-anticipated AGM on 1 August.

Angry investors turned up Yahoo's board in the meeting voicing their anger at how the two...

He has been the bane of Yahoo's existence ever since Microsoft launched a takeover bid for the internet company's search biz all of those months ago.

But now it seems billionaire investor, who owns a 5% stake in Yahoo, is content with his...

A Texan oil billionaire has sold all of his shares in Yahoo in protest at how the company has handled Microsoft's various bids to buy its search business.

Billionaire investor Thomas Boone Pickens spent millions of dollars buying up 10 million...

Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's chief exec, has told journalists that his company is "done" with pursuing Yahoo, after two unsuccessful bids and months of wrangling.

"There's nothing under discussion between the two of us", Ballmer told investors....

Just last week Yahoo is warning its shareholders to stay away from billionaire investor Carl Icahn, who has been putting mounting pressure on Yahoo's board to do a deal with Microsoft.

Well now Yahoo is adopting a different tack.

Earlier this week, there was a war of words between Yahoo, which had newly rejected yet another Microsoft buy-out bid, and the computing giant itself.

But now, in another letter published on its website, Yahoo has now turned its attention...

Yesterday Yahoo told the world that it had rejected yet another Microsoft advance and also took a rather large pop at the computing giant.

Yahoo chairman Roy Bostock wrote in a statement that an offer his company had had just 24 hours to...

Yahoo has yet again rejected a bid by Microsoft that would have seen its search engine absorbed by the computing giant.

But this time, the offer also included the proposal that billionaire investor, Carl Icahn, who has been buying up Yahoo...

Are the talks between Yahoo on or off? Is there anything to the rumours that both parties are consulting with Time Warner's AOL?

So many questions and yet more rumours today.

Yahoo is apparently currently trying to come up with...

We thought it was all over, Yahoo's execs thought the battle was won, but now it seems that talks with Microsoft may be back on.

There have been stories aplenty that Yahoo is in disarray facing a shareholder mutiny over the failed takeover...

Yahoo has now resolutely walked away from talks with Microsoft ending (probably) a saga that has been rumbling on since February.

Yahoo stated on Friday that it had turned down Microsoft's revised bid to buy its search business.

Yahoo is in for a fight with rebel shareholder, and investor billionaire Carl Icahn.

The web company, which still seems to be in talks with Microsoft over the sale of the search engine business, could have a battle on its hands according...