Microsoft Corp. is offering cash rebates when people make purchases after using its search engine as the software maker begins to reveal how it plans to take on Google Inc. following the failure of its $47.5 billion bid for Yahoo Inc. ...more

May 22, 2008

Just two weeks after breaking off merger talks, Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. have been pulled back to the bargaining table by their fears about what might happen if they don't work out a deal. ...more

May 20, 2008

Some help could be coming soon for Tampa Bay customers frustrated with choppy wireless Internet access. ...more

May 8, 2008

Sure, things look rough for Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft Corp. because they couldn't agree on a deal. Yahoo's stock has cratered, and Microsoft has to figure out another way to catch up in the online ad market, a flaw it was willing to pay $47.5 billion to fix it. ...more

May 6, 2008

Microsoft Corp. may raise its takeover offer for Yahoo Inc. to more than $31 a share, seeking to end a three-month standoff with the Internet company's board, a person familiar with the matter said Friday. ...more

May 3, 2008

Google Inc. will begin storing the medical records of a few thousand people as it tests a long-awaited health service that's likely to raise more concerns about the volume of sensitive information entrusted to the Internet search leader. ...more

February 21, 2008

Microsoft is not privately haggling with Yahoo over the software maker's rejected $31-per-share buyout offer for the slumping Internet pioneer, Bill Gates said in an interview. ...more

February 20, 2008

Yahoo Inc.'s rejection of Microsoft Corp.'s unsolicited takeover bid left investors guessing the next move in a tense mating dance that may hatch a more imposing challenger to Google Inc. or disintegrate into a bruising brawl. ...more

February 12, 2008

Colleen Bramhall's friends used to think she had sold out by going to work for Accenture as a consultant after college. Now she says they're jealous. ...more

February 11, 2008

Microsoft Corp.'s $41 billion takeover bid appears to have backed Yahoo Inc. into a corner, leaving the struggling Internet pioneer with the unpleasant choice of selling to a detested rival or pursuing other agonizing alternatives likely to require the help of an even fiercer foe, Google Inc. ...more

February 5, 2008