If you have a Microsoft Hotmail email account you should change your password immediately. In fact, whatever service you use for email -- Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo, AOL -- change your password. There is a hacking attack finding its way to many email services that might cause your password to be compromised.

After 1 1/2 years of negotiation, which all began with a $44.6 billion bid by Microsoft for Yahoo!, the two companies have come to a more limited agreement, one involving their search businesses only.

We knew earlier that Microsoft and Yahoo! were talking again, and now reports indicate that a deal is all but done. On the other hand, the companies have been oh-so-close to a deal before, and until the pen is placed to the paper, the deal can still fall apart.

An unspecified group of investors is gearing up to make a buyout offer for Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) - relying on completely on financing from Microsoft, reports TechCrunch, citing unidentified sources.

When you expect to hear bad news from a country known for Yahoo-Yahoo Internet scams, but what you see is a new groundbreaking book of awesome revelations, what would you say? Good news from Nigeria?

A little over a month ago Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said a Yahoo! deal still "makes sense," but that same afternoon, a Microsoft press release quashed any speculation by saying there were "no discussions between the companies."

FBI agents executed a search warrant Sunday at the apartment of University of Tennessee student David Kernell (pictured). Kernell has been the subject of much Internet chatter in connection with the hacking of Sarah Palin's personal Yahoo! email account. Palin has been widely criticized for using the account for government business, against disclosure rules.

Sarah Palin, John McCain's running-mate, has come under fire for using her private Yahoo! email address for state business. The reason? As a public official she's supposed to use her official email address (which is, of course, subject to laws requiring the retention of government records). She even has a Blackberry, so why would she even need to use Yahoo! mail?

HP, Intel Corporation and Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) today announced the creation of a global, multi-data center, open source test bed for the advancement of cloud computing research and education.

MySpace has finally succumbed to the OpenID revolution. The Popular online social center announced on Tuesday that they will join OpenID, an internet site which allows Internet users to log on to many diverse web sites using a single digital identity.

One of the first large-scale analyses of how people share knowledge on Yahoo Answers has found that participants use the site to exchange advice and opinions, in addition to technical expertise.