Sparks fly as Scott Cleland, president of Precursor Group and chairman of anti-net neutrality organization Netcompetition.org, receives the criticism he fully expected in assessing the likelihood of the Google offer for DoubleClick being blocked.

They don’t need Yahoo and they don’t want Yahoo up in Redmond. Microsoft can compete just fine with Google without Yahoo.

A year ago, the two companies were reportedly in talks about a merger, but those conversations were dismissed as rumors and speculation. Well, here’s Microsoft and Yahoo 2.0.

In a world of scenarios and a slow news week, chatter about a possible AOL/Yahoo merger has crested the waves and face-planted itself upon the sandy shores of consideration.

The marriage is off – NWN and NetTeks Technology Consultants no longer intend to merge.

Steve Case has already gone on the record to say he regretted the AOL-Time Warner merger, but the AOL founder was referring more to the merger’s implementation than to the theory behind it. Now he’s said “sorry” again.

Offline applications have often been a thorn in the side of developers. Adobe is coming to the rescue – the company has begun work on a project, dubbed Apollo, which would allow developers to insert hooks for portability to offline clients.

Marketing Experiments has announced a “Back of a Napkin” business planning contest. They say they are are looking for the next Google’.