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Longtime Yahoo tech leader Ash Patel is taking some time off until early 2010. Yahoo (YHOO) confirmed the break to BoomTown. In recent days, many inside the company had mistakenly thought the 44-year-old EVP for Product Architecture & Strategy was departing the company for good. Actually, it’s more of a sabbatical for Patel (pictured here). [...]

Unlike the gripping back and forth of the fight over Yahoogle last year, the approval process for the search and online advertising partnership of Microsoft and Yahoo is chugging along slowly but surely as the Justice Department has deepened its investigation by reaching out to a broad range of publishers, advertisers, public interest groups and [...]

Well, well, well, that financial imp at Microsoft–CFO Chris Liddell–pulled a fast one on Wall Street and turned in first-quarter earnings that blew away all estimates and even the whisper numbers. While revenue and net income were down for the third consecutive quarter, they were not as bad as investors had expected. Perhaps those Microsoft [...]