{"id":6537,"date":"2008-02-23T18:54:22","date_gmt":"2008-02-23T18:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/the-latest-microsoftyahoo-news.html"},"modified":"2008-02-23T18:54:22","modified_gmt":"2008-02-23T18:54:22","slug":"the-latest-microsoftyahoo-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/google\/the-latest-microsoftyahoo-news.html","title":{"rendered":"The Latest Microsoft\/Yahoo News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest in the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/microsoft\/microsoft-to-buy-yahoo.html\">Microsoft\/Yahoo<\/a> saga is a number of lawsuits from shareholders looking to get Yahoo to sell to Microsoft. In addition, a Microsoft exec sent an e-mail to employees of the world&#8217;s largest software company telling them the market wants the merger to go through and moreover to treat Yahoo as a competitor until the merger goes through.<\/p>\n<p>One wonders if such an email is in response to Microsoft taking it easy on Yahoo as a competitor or a sign that Microsoft thinks the negotiations will drag on for months.<\/p>\n<p>As always when watching soap operas&#8230; You have to tune in daily so you don&#8217;t miss a plot twist. <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/mtstatic\/FCKeditor\/emoticons\/wink_smile.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20080223\/tc_afp\/usitcompanytakeoveryahoomicrosoft\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest in the Microsoft\/Yahoo saga is a number of lawsuits from shareholders looking to get Yahoo to sell to Microsoft. In addition, a Microsoft exec sent an e-mail to employees of the world&#8217;s largest software company telling them the market wants the merger to go through and moreover to treat Yahoo as a competitor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163,188,1675],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6537"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}