Tom Foremski / Silicon Valley Watcher:
Is Salesforce Worth $75/Share To Oracle?  —  I’m hearing from a reliable source that Salesforce.com has approached Oracle to gauge if there is any interest in a sale at $75 a share.  That would be almost a 50 per cent premium over Friday’s close of $50.87.  —  The deal […]

Seth Weintraub / Computerworld Blogs:
Safari is about to get crazy fast  —  When Apple chose the KHTML engine for its Safari Browser in in 2003 over the more popular Gecko engine that powers Firefox, a lot of people were surprised.  Firefox was way more popular than the Konquerer browser and had a lot more […]

Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
How Will MSFT Respond To YHOO’s Counter?  —  Yahoo’s “rejection” of Microsoft’s $31 bid isn’t a rejection but a counter-offer of $40 a share.  It remains to be seen whether the company will state this explicitly in its letter to Microsoft (unlikely), but it has already sent the message […]

New York Times:
Yahoo Board to Reject Takeover Bid From Microsoft  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo’s board of directors plans to reject Microsoft’s $44.6 billion hostile bid with a letter Monday saying the offer undervalues Yahoo, a person familiar with the matter said Saturday.  —  The decision to reject the bid …

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Yahoo’s Bold Whimper  —  A few well connected reporters said our prediction that Yahoo would make a decision on the Microsoft offer yesterday were off, and that Yahoo would take more time to make it’s move.  But it seems that Yahoo did in fact make a decision yesterday.  They will reject […]

Danny Sullivan / Daggle:
Read The Wall Street Journal For Free  —  Reading Google News today, I noticed a Wall Street Journal article about the Microsoft-Yahoo deal listed.  I’d just seen that article earlier on Techmeme, when on my work computer, where I read it after having to log-in to the WSJ using my paid […]

Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Microsoft’s Colossal Strategic Mistake: “We Need to Be in Advertising”  —  We believe the Microsoft Yahoo (MSFT / YHOO) acquisition will be a disaster.  So far, in support of this conclusion, we have cited integration, execution, and operational challenges.  Now it’s time to look at the bigger picture.

Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Report: Yahoo to reject Microsoft bid  —  Yahoo’s board has decided Microsoft’s $31-per-share offer “massively undervalues” the company, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.  Yahoo is expected to formally reject Microsoft’s offer, the Journal reported.

Alistair Croll / GigaOM:
Does the World Need Another Way to Search?  —  Google’s dominance in online search hasn’t stopped hundreds of startups from trying to build a better mousetrap.  Each is trying a new twist on search: geography, crowdsourcing, tags, user annotations, learned hierarchies and timelines.

Wall Street Journal:
Yahoo to Reject Microsoft Bid  —  Yahoo’s board plans to reject Microsoft’s unsolicited $44.6 billion offer to acquire the Web giant, a person familiar with the situation says.