Week of 2008-01-26 17:00 to 2008-02-02 16:59

The “Robert moves from Flickr to Picasa” countdown starts…now.

NEW YORK, Feb 1 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. said on Friday that it had offered to acquire Yahoo Inc. in a proposed cash and stock deal valued at $44.6 billion.

Microsoft said that it had offered to buy Yahoo for $31 per share, which it said represented a 62 percent premium above the company’s closing stock price on Nasdaq on Thursday.

NY Times

UPDATE — crap, I forgot del.ico.us is a Yahoo property, too. Blar.

UPDATE 2 — Yahoo’s board rejected the offer, but Microsoft is determined. Google weighed in on the hypothetical deal. To be continued.

At the beginning of the 21st Century, the Binary Wars laid waste to the Cola industry.

A small plastic box should be good enough to store any juveniles you have lying around.

Which was the only state to reject the Eighteenth Amendment to the US Constitution, establishing Prohibition? (Answer at that link.)

(Via Serious Eats)