Fighting Fit

Former AOL boss seeks funds for Yahoo! deal

Jonathan Miller, with private equity investors and sovereign funds, may bid up to $22 per share for the internet company

The monarch of silicon glen

Microsoft’s boss in Scotland is evangelical about the country’s need to embrace new technology

Networker seizes the day

Redundant executives are flocking to Reid Hoffman's website

Microsoft in $20bn Yahoo deal

The proposal involves a complex transaction with Microsoft supporting a new management team to take control of Yahoo

Grand plans for global energy under threat

The future of green technology has cracks, reserves of lithium would prevent a world of electic cars from being a reality

Mobile technology will help speed broadband

Minister hints that mobile and wireless services will do for broadband and video what they have done for the spoken word

Carl Icahn ups Yahoo! stake to 5.4%

The corporate raider injects a further $67m into Yahoo! after Jerry Yang, the company's chief executive, said he would step down

Investors plump for safety on the home front

The miserable new environment for electronics companies highlights the differences in approach between Sony and Panasonic

Panasonic warning reflects troubles in China

Japanese electronics group gives spectacular profits warning as car sales falter and China’s construction boom starts to wilt

Sharp looks forward to brighter times

Japanese company defies downturn and announces $2.6bn (£1.6bn) gamble that will double production of solar panels by 2010

QinetiQ primed for sell-off to defend its future

Defence research company to sell several businesses in the new year to put more capital into security and counter-terrorism

Robot wars help QinetiQ to 41% profit climb

QinetiQ says it is well placed to take advantage of new US administration's priorities of terrorism and Afghanistan

Google falls to earth with promise of job cuts

The plan to cut down its army of 10,000 contractors was set in motion before the economic crisis, the company has claimed

Google feels pain with cuts to contractors

Internet giant will "significantly" reduce the number of contract workers it employs as online advertising suffers

Google mulls pre-installing Chrome browser

The move would significantly ramp up browser war Google launched against Microsoft when it revealed Chrome