New Severance Plan Clears Way For Yahoo Acquisition

Delaware Chancery Court Judge William B. Chandler III apparently doesn't love the idea of poison pills.  A settlement he approved would make it much less expensive - and therefore much more appealing - for a company to acquire Yahoo. 

LinkedIn Stands Out in Terms of Revenue

LinkedIn is a social network that often gets lost in the shuffle with greater attention being paid to Facebook and Twitter, but LinkedIn is making money focusing on its niche of professional networking. Marketing Shift, which notes that LinkedIn just came off its most successful quarter yet, takes a look at the network's "three-pronged" revenue model:

Twitter Meets Parasite Hosting

Google’s seemingly automatic trust of popular social media sites like Twitter, Facebook, and Wikipedia make all of them—and by default, you, the end game—a target of spammers, scammers, and hackers. Combine that trust with Twittter’s foray into realtime search, and you’ve got yourself some spammer’s delight.