Yahoo’s Bold Whimper - by Michael Arrington from TechCrunch   "...[I]t seems that Yahoo did in fact make a decision yesterday. They will reject Microsoft’s offer. A flat and stubborn No should be coming on Monday."

Shareholders Want Microsoft-Yahoo Deal Done -- Pronto - by Betsy Schiffman from Wired Blog Network   "Yahoo shareholders don't care if Steve Ballmer is the emperor of evil, nor do they care about the implications of the merger to Flickr. The thing that matters most to shareholders is Yahoo's stock price, and that looked awfully ugly before Microsoft came in with its $31 per share offer."

Analyst: Microsoft's Yahoo bid may be fake - by Benjamin Pimentel from MarketWatch   "Trip Chowdhry of Global Equities Research speculated Thursday that Microsoft made the stunning $44.6 billion merger proposal as a way to block a possible alliance between Yahoo and another Internet behemoth, Amazon.com."

The Search Market Fallout Of Microsoft-Yahoo - by Richard Martin from InformationWeek   "When tigers battle, mice get fat. That pseudo-Chinese proverb well describes one likely outcome of Microsoft's $44 billion bid for Yahoo, which would reduce the top three Web search providers to just two: Google and Micro-Hoo (or whatever the mashup of Yahoo and Microsoft's MSN Live search tool would be called)."

Hearing on Microsoft-Yahoo Deal Postponed - by Andrew Ross Sorkin from The New York Times   "Fortune’s Techland blog suggested other factors were at work: It quoted anonymous sources as saying that lawmakers realized they had acted a bit prematurely, given that Microsoft’s acquisition of Yahoo is far from a fait accompli."

Facebook, MySpace Hit by Zero-Day Flaw - by Jake Soriano from Trend Micro   "A vulnerability in the image uploader used by MySpace and Facebook was recently discovered by security researchers, bringing about issues of the possibility of exploits and malicious users gaining access to affected systems."

Spam continues to increase, Symantec says - by Robert Vamosi from CNET   "Spam now accounts for 78.5 percent of all e-mail traffic, according to a new report from Symantec. That's up from previous months. And Europe, not the United States, can now claim to be the source of most spam."

Decision Time For Yahoo - by Michael Arrington from TechCrunch   "The dust is settling on Microsoft’s $31 per share offer to acquire Yahoo, and the options left open to the company are fairly well understood at this point. There will almost certainly be no White Knight or other buyout offer coming to the table."