Daily Brief: More than half of Yahoo's shareholders also own shares of Microsoft. How will this influence Microsoft's bid for Yahoo? Read Story

Yahoo, talking to Time Warner, pushes back its annual shareholders meeting. Read Story

Business Spin: Microsoft has engaged quite deliberately and effectively in spin efforts intended to box Yahoo into embracing a deal. Read Story

The software company says it's embracing open source. Is this its latest effort in wooing Yahoo? Read Story

A proxy fight for Yahoo could be a big win for Microsoft C.E.O. Steve Ballmer—or his Waterloo. Read Story

Business Spin: Yahoo Beach is getting softer by the minute, as Microsoft executed two textbook spin sorties today, each designed to minimize resistance. Read Blog

Tech Observer: Everyone expects Microsoft's takeover of Yahoo to go through, but in the world of big mergers, it ain't over till it's over—and exhibit A is what happened to MCI in the 1990s. Read Blog

A new player enters the fray. News Corp. is said to be in talks about a possible alliance with Yahoo. Read Story

Why the No. 1 Web search and advertising company should welcome a merger of No. 2 and No. 3. Read Story

Tech Observer: Want a glimpse of Microsoft's future without some radical shift like buying Yahoo? Read Blog

Tech Observer: Yahoo officially rejected Microsoft's offer, and there are lots of good analytical reasons to think that it's just a delay tactic. Read Blog

Business Spin: Translating Yahoo's rejection of Microsoft's bid. Read Blog

Yahoo rejects Microsoft's offer. But all, save the haggling over price, may be over. Read Story

Board apparently wants to force Microsoft to pursue a proxy fight to counteract Yahoo's poison pill defense. Read Story

Board apparently wants to force Microsoft to pursue a proxy fight to counteract Yahoo's poison pill defense. Read Story

Legal experts see little maneuvering room for Web portal as it tries to fend off Microsoft's hostile bid. Read Story

Market Movers: Not to be left out, Goldman Sachs joins the fray. Read Blog

Business Spin: Google's noisy interjection into Microsoft's bid for Yahoo! is simply a bad strategy. Read Blog

Business Spin: Yahoo!'s "evaluation" decoded. Read Blog

Business Spin: Google's attempt to assert its dominance on the playground. Read Blog

Business Spin: Microsoft's bid for Yahoo! is really about giving web users a choice. Really. Read Blog

Daily Brief: The Microsoft-Yahoo deal has antitrust written all over it, say a few lawyers. Read Blog

Capital: The bid poses obvious antitrust questions. Too bad the Department of Justice has taken a sabbatical this year. Read Blog

Microsoft bid for Yahoo! expands Time Warner's options for the troubled AOL. Read Story

Why Yahoo! is Microsoft's best chance to "kill Google." Read Story

Daily Brief: Microsoft will face an enormous challenge reconciling its corporate culture with Yahoo's more relaxed environment. Read Blog

Tech Observer: A combination of these two tech companies would produce an interesting hybrid. But would the merger work? Read Blog

Takeover bid for struggling portal is aimed at online advertising and other services. Read Story

The two companies went back to the negotiating table last spring. Read Story

Google Faces Tough Fight With Microsoft (AP)
Ballmer Touts Benefits of Yahoo Deal (AP)