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Yahoo and activist investor Carl Icahn have reached a settlement in their bitter battle over control of the company. The two sides have agreed to keep most of the current Yahoo board on the ballot for re-election and to create three new board positions: one for Icahn and two for executives of his recommendation. The decision comes less than two weeks before Yahoo’s shareholder meeting, at which Icahn had previously hoped to replace the company’s entire leadership with a team of his own choosing. Now, the two sides will become one as they work to figure out their financial future.

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Icahn Jimmies Into Yahoo Boardroom

Small and medium-sized businesses are demanding the same level of quality and functionality for their IT Web infrastructure as larger enterprise IT organizations. Many SMB organizations are implementing their own application delivery optimization solutions; however, others prefer to outsource their application delivery optimization infrastructure to managed hosting providers. By outsourcing, customers are able to avoid the headaches associated with 24/7 monitoring, troubleshooting faults and assuring that they have the most up-to-date gear.

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A No-Brainer for SMBs

Well, July 4th may have come and gone, but another independence recently came to pass that could be almost as historic. That’s Microsoft’s independence from Bill Gates, of course, and it was a hot topic last week as bloggers at ZDNet and elsewhere wondered if the change might bring about a Redmond that’s kinder and gentler to the open source world. “I feel like Microsoft has taken some important steps towards playing nice with open source and encouraging interoperability,” wrote et764 on Slashdot, where more than 400 comments had appeared by Thursday.

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Linux Bloggers Wax Skeptical on the Post-Gates World

Think only celebrities, high-ranking professionals and the wealthy can enjoy having personal assistants at their beck and call? Not necessarily. A growing number of Web sites are making it easier to outsource virtual errands overseas, making it cheaper to indulge in the luxury of never having to write another thank-you card or sit on hold with the department of motor vehicles. Those who use the sites, for everything from ordering takeout to managing online dating, say the cost is affordable and a small price to free up their time — even in the face of a sputtering economy.

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Virtual Personal Assistants: Not Just for the Filthy Rich

The two largest electronic prescription networks have decided to merge. By joining together their two platforms, RxHub and SureScripts maintain that both doctors and patients will benefit. Having one integrated system gives doctors more information about patients’ health insurance plans as well as related medical history, said Robin Cronin, a spokesperson for SureScripts. In practical terms, that means “a patient has less of a chance of getting to the pharmacy counter with his prescription only to find that the doctor has prescribed a drug that requires a $200 co-pay,” he said.

Merger Creates Mammoth Electronic Prescription Data Network