It’s been a busy week for me, and there’s been a lot of Yahoo news going on. Rather than post about everything separately, I’ll throw it all into once nice post that way I can get on to bed (I told you The Invasion bored me!).

For whatever reason, Microsoft thought it’d be a good idea to make a bid to take over Yahoo. No one that I knew expected any government to accept the deal, and thankfully yesterday Yahoo officially rejected Microsoft. This announcement came after the rumor surfaced that Yahoo may be looking to merge into Time Warner’s fledgling AOL division. AOL-Time Warner-Yahoo? Suddenly, I liked the whole Microsoft idea better.

Not long after Yahoo dissed the company Gate’s built, Microsoft issued a press release stating that it was unfortunate that Yahoo decided to turn down an offer that would create a more effective company. I guess Microsoft’s idea of being effective is releasing crap software well past the original release date (Vista anyone?). Now it looks like Microsoft has hired a proxy firm in an attempt for a hostile takeover.

Meanwhile, Yahoo has begun to layoff some 1,000 employees. Among those out the door is Salim Ismail, who has lead Yahoo Brickhouse since early 2007. According to TechCrunch, Salim left voluntary. He’ll most likely create a small startup and get bought up by Google, Yahoo, or Microsoft. Any bets?

With all the take over talks, merger proposals, and the layoffs, you’d think that’d be enough for Yahoo. Nope, today they acquired Maven Networks for $160 million.

And that’s pretty much the gist of the Microsoft-Yahoo saga that’s gone on for the past few days. Oh yeah, Yahoo also had a couple software releases, but who cares about those right now.

Why not throw out another rumor tonight. Valleywag is reporting that Microsoft may be buying Ustream.tv for $50 million.  Microsoft may not be the only one bidding on the company.

While there is no mention of it, I think Ustream or a similar service would be a great fit for Google’s YouTube. Streaming live video could really put the you into YouTube.

According to Wired there is a rumor that Google has bought Plaxo for about $200 Million.

If this is true, I hope it gets integrated with Google Apps, specifically GMail. I’ve used Plaxo fo years, and think it is an amazing service.

Rumor is that either Google or MySpace could be looking to buy social network Bebo. Word is the deal could be anywhere between $1 and $1.5 billion.

If MySpace were to buy Bebo, it could still be a win for Google as both MySpace and Bebo use Google’s OpenSocial platform. Bebo however also supports the competing Facebook platform. Chances are either way the Facebook support would get the axe.

Of course, if Google were to end up buying Bebo it could help strengthen Google’s Orkut and maybe help it to catch on more in the US. Of course, anywhere Google can stick it’s ads will be beneficial to the company.

NBC ’s Universal Studios has officially debunked rumors that it was dumping HD-DVD and moving to Sony’s Blu-Ray format. This is good news for the HD-DVD fans, earlier this week it was looking as if HD-DVD was dead and the HD format wars were over with.

Source: BetaNews

Here’s a hot rumor. According to Reuters, shares for Logitech rose by 12% today on the rumor that Microsoft is looking to buy the company. The rumored $6 billion takeover deal would be Microsoft’s largest acquisition.

Though to the relief of gamers everywhere, Logitech board member (and largest shareholder) Daniel Borel said he had no reason to sell his 6% stake in the company. If the deal did go through, it would make the worlds largest software company the largest mouse maker.

I really cannot see Microsoft doing this. Sure, it’d be a great deal for them, but I think antitrust lawyers everywhere would have a fit with the idea. Besides, Microsoft has been partnering with Razer for several PC peripheral. It’d probably be far cheaper to by Razer. Granted, Razer doesn’t have the number of gizmos that Logitech has.

It’s kind of funny… when I use to help run OverclockersClub.com, I’d get messages from people asking about buying the site. I’d laugh, and pass the message on to Matt (aka LinuXProX). Matt would laugh, and say he got those messages all the time, and then say OCC meant to much to him, and that he’d never sell it for any amount of money.

I use to believe that… I wonder if he’d still say that today.

Truth is, since I stepped down from my position at OCC to begin work on my own site, I haven’t heard from Matt. Well, that’s not entirely true… much of the reason I quit, was because of the lack of communication from Matt. He was always busy with something, yet no one knew what, and it was pretty clear that the something was not OCC.

Matt later brought Dave (Bosco) in to help run the site in my absence, which is kind of funny considering I had originally taken over for Dave when he left. :p As Matt was less and less active, he gave Dave a “site manager” position which basically made him the assistant admin. This was probably one of the better things to happen to OCC in a long time.

Well here it is almost a year after all that took place. Dave is doing a fine job with OCC, all things considered… and Matt, well, not much has changed there from what I’m told.

Now, here is where the rumor starts. And I’d like to stress that this is just a rumor.

I’ve been told by two different people (friend of a brother of a friend of someone who heard something kind of thing) that some big news is about to hit OCC. It is being sold. To whom or what, I do not know. Like I said, this is just a rumor.

The logical choice, would be to sell OCC to Dave…. assuming that Matt still cares about OCC as much as he use to. Then again, if he just wanted to cash out, he could sell it to some network like IGN/GameSpy or maybe even the Warcry Network (Matt had a thing with someone there).

So, that’s the rumor… it may very well turn out to be false information.

Dave… feel free to comment, or shoot me a message. I know you’re still reading this site.