Grok's Interactive Marketing Buzz: Today's Blog Buzz

It's over. The potential marriage of Yahoo and Microsoft is over. Check out the aftermath coverage here, here and here. I am not going to paste the entire letter that Microsoft's Ballmer sent to Yahoo's Yang - you can read it on the Microsoft press [continue reading]

Yahoo issued the following press release responding to the breakdown in today’s Microsoft negotiations (interesting that Chairman Roy Bostock is taking center stage here, not CEO Jerry Yang). As we said earlier, this is just the beginning of a very l [continue reading]

Facebook email, which they call messages, is becoming completely unusable as a personal or business productivity tool. When I first joined Facebook it was fine. I only had a few friends on the service, and people didn’t do much with it except to occa [continue reading]

YouTube down? We have been receiving reports for the past 90 minutes that users are not able to access YouTube. Upon further testing, it looks like the YouTube CDN (static file server) is down. All images are not currently being served (see screensh [continue reading]

Microsoft announced its plan to withdraw its proposal to acquire Yahoo! today. This is a strange, and somewhat unexpected turn of events in the ongoing Microhoo saga. In a letter, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer stated: “We continue to believe that our [continue reading]