Yahoo!:
Yahoo! Remains Open to Value Maximizing Transactions  —  SUNNYVALE, Calif., May 18, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, today issued the following statement in response to the announcement by Microsoft Corporation that it is continuing to review potential transactions with Yahoo!:

Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times:
In Reversal, Microsoft Proposes New Deal to Yahoo  —  Microsoft has proposed a complex new deal with Yahoo that would involve collaboration between their online advertising businesses but would not involve a full takeover, Microsoft said on Sunday.  —  Microsoft released a brief statement …

Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Microsoft on Yahoo: Internal Memo From Kevin Johnson  —  Just prior to Microsoft’s annual advertising conference advance08, Kevin Johnson, president of the company’s Platforms & Services Division, sent the following strategy update to PSD employees.  —  From: Kevin Johnson  —  To: Platforms & Services Division

Mark Evans:
I Hate to be Rude But…  I don’t want to join Boxbe, Spock or Diigo or, for that matter, any of the social network/knowledge-sharing/e- mail services that people have been nice enough to extend invitations recently.  —  It’s good to be asked but there’s already enough social stuff on my plate …

Kevin Johnson / CNET News.com:
Kevin Johnson’s letter on Microsoft’s updated online strategy  —  As Microsoft returns to the table with Yahoo for a deal that might include Yahoo’s search business, Windows and Windows Live chief Kevin Johnson sent this letter updating his team on an updated online and advertising strategy.

Kevin Johnson / CNET News.com:
Kevin Johnson’s letter on updated online strategy  —  As Microsoft returns to the table with Yahoo for a deal that might include Yahoo’s search business, Windows and Windows Live chief Kevin Johnson sent this letter updating his team on an updated online and advertising strategy.

Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
If Icahn Can’t Get Microsoft Back To Table Before Shareholder Meeting, He’ll Lose Proxy Fight  —  The next move in the Yahoo-Microsoft-Icahn saga is Carl Icahn’s: He has to get Microsoft back to the negotiating table in the next few weeks.  In the meantime, he’ll do everything he can […]

Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Microsoft To Buy Just Yahoo’s Search Business?  —  Will Microsoft now just buy Yahoo’s search business instead of the whole company?  —  Ah, what are weekends for?  —  Why, announcing another non-deal deal-this time, sources said, is related to search-in the Microsoft-Yahoo takeover pas de deux, of course!

Microsoft:
Microsoft Issues Statement Regarding Yahoo!  —  Microsoft announced that it is continuing to explore and pursue its alternatives to improve and expand its online services and advertising business.  —  REDMOND, Wash. — May 18, 2008 — Microsoft Corp. today issued the following statement:

Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Why Google News has no noise  —  I’m a noise junkie.  I used to be a news junkie, but I’ve hung out with the world’s top journalists enough now to see that the good ones are noise junkies.  They are the types that head into a crowded party and listen to […]