Yahoo’s latest Messenger beta goes its own way

It’s clearly not a button-down, businesslike IM client: Having experimented with a special Vista version that apparently didn’t go over well, Yahoo now is adding personalized polish to its latest free personal messenger, still in beta.

FTC approves Icahn’s Yahoo stock purchase

The Federal Trade Commission has given activist investor Carl Icahn approval to purchase a large chunk of Yahoo stock, it said on Friday.