Creepy Dolls to remain creepy afterall

Somehow I missed this a two days ago. I think I need to work on better search terms.

"Mattel Inc. has settled with a former employee that designed the Bratz line of dolls, but will carry on with a suit against the maker of Bratz, MGA Entertainment, according to media reports."

Link to the full article is here.

Second Request Alert: Ugh.

Two days after after trying to sweeten their deal with Yahoo, Microsoft has decided to call it off.

From the NYT: Microsoft Withdraws Its Bid for Yahoo

Props to the great and all-powerful Posse List for sending that to my email inbox this morning. As I always say, if you are an attorney anywhere in the world, and you are not signed up with any of The Posse List's listservs, you are really missing out on potentially very useful information about jobs and the litigation industry in general. Plus it is free to sign up people. How great is that?

My worry about this, is that Google will not make any moves now that the threat of Microsoft in gone. Hopefully I am wrong. The summer will still be busy, but not the explosion that I wanted.