Google called off Yahoo deal as DOJ closed in

Yahoo Board Casts About for New CEO: No Committee, Six Criteria and AOL Merger-Ready!
kara.allthingsd.com 12/3/2008 — Now let’s return from the land of fatuous deal schemes and half-baked plots to buy Yahoo and get to the most critical issue facing its board right now: Finding a new CEO to replace outgoing leader Jerry Yang. According to numerous sources ...

Hogan's Litvack Discusses Google/Yahoo
amlawdaily.typepad.com 12/3/2008 — December 2, 2008 1:00 PM Hogan's Litvack Discusses Google/Yahoo Posted by Nate Raymond Litvack Google Inc. and Yahoo! Inc. called off their joint advertising agreement just three hours before the Department of Justice planned to file antitrust charges ...

DOJ Hound Wanted To Sink Teeth Into GOOG, YHOO Deal
paidcontent.org 12/4/2008 — Looks like Jerry Yang and the rest of the Yahoo ( NSDQ: YHOO ) gang weren't the only ones sad to see the search outsourcing deal with Google ( NSDQ: GOOG ) die. Sanford Litvack, a lawyer the Department of Justice hired specifically to examine the ...

Former Yahoo Tech Star Qi Lu Likely To Be Named Microsoft’s Digital Head By Next Week
kara.allthingsd.com 12/4/2008 — Former Yahoo tech star Qi Lu (pictured here) is poised to take on the big job of being Microsoft’s top digital executive, according to several sources inside and outside the company. The appointment could be announced by Microsoft as ...

Google Was Three Hours Away From Being Charged As A Monopolist
techcrunch.com 12/4/2008 — When Google pulled out of its proposed search advertising deal with Yahoo last month, it was chief legal counsel David Drummond who made the announcement. He cited concerns of a “protracted legal battle,” but only now do we learn that the Justice ...

The Real Reason Google Walked Away From Yahoo Search Deal (GOOG) — Silicon Alley Insider

Google Was Three Hours Away From Being Charged As A Monopolist — TechCrunch

DOJ Was Three Hours From Suing Google For Antitrust Violations — Techdirt

Congratulations Google, You’re the New Microsoft — Digital Daily

Yahoo Adds Search Assist for Image Search — Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim

Report: DOJ was hours from Google suit — CNET News.com 12/3/2008
In a magazine interview, the lawyer hired to look into the Google-Yahoo deal said the government was on the verge of an antitrust suit when the two companies abandoned the search pact.

Mozilla to pull anti-phishing feature from Firefox 2.0 at Google's request — Latest from Computerworld 12/4/2008
At Google's request, Mozilla plans to drop anti-phishing protection from the final version of Firefox 2.0 when the browser is updated later this month, a Mozilla executive confirmed today.

Google, Facebook throw doors open on Connect programs — Latest from Computerworld 12/4/2008
Google Friend Connect and Facebook Connect, which extend social-networking capabilities broadly across the Web, were made available on Thursday.

Microsoft confirms Yahoo's Lu to run online services — Latest from Computerworld 12/4/2008
Microsoft confirmed Thursday that it has tapped former Yahoo executive Qi Lu to run its struggling Online Services Group.

Facebook, Google launch data portability programs to all — Latest from Computerworld 12/4/2008
Google and Facebook separately announced the general availability of their respective data portability programs on Thursday.