Icahn Throws Haymaker At Yahoo Board

Billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn published a letter he submitted to Yahoo chairman Roy Bostock, officially confirming his intent to challenge Yahoo's board.

Cox, Comcast Caught Red-Dotted

Only two countries in the world have ISPs actively blocking or interfering with BitTorrent transmissions: Singapore and the United States. Only one kind of ISP in both countries, though, is doing the blocking: cable. An independent test conducted by Germany's Max Planck Institute for Software Systems showed that Comcast and Cox are both currently interfering with BitTorrent despite recent public and regulatory outrage.

A Short Guide To Carl Icahn’s Ten Men

Consider it confirmed: Carl Icahn wants to stick ten new men on Yahoo's board of directors.  Icahn's even gone so far as to provide their names and biographies, and the men constitute a rather interesting collection.

Yahoo’s SearchMonkey Comes Out To Play

Want to "have a hand in shaping the next generation of search"?  Or at least pad your wallet with ten thousand dollars?  Yahoo has opened its new SearchMonkey platform to all developers, and at the same time, announced the SearchMonkey Developer Challenge.