To start your Friday, we have news on Yahoo’s talks to buy Tumblr, health care costs tumble and Biz Stone’s new startup.

This morning, we have Microsoft is in talks to buy Nook Media and Icahn, Southeastern plan to bid for Dell and whether PE hurt Hertz.

To start your Monday, we have how LinkedIn changed the way we work, why early stage VCs need to be careful about intros from bankers and SNL makes fun of Google Glass.

To start off your Friday, we have news that Yahoo is in talks to buy Milewise, Apple avoids $9.2 billion in taxes and how to be funny on Twitter.

In First Read, we wonder why Yahoo’s chairman was booted, Amazon’s Q1 results and George Soros gets a stake in JC Penney.

First Read has what Eduardo Saverin owes America, Scott Thompson is out at Yahoo and 26 things pro athletes should never do.

With your breakfast this morning, we have a startup horror story that gives us the shivers, Billabong says no to TPG again and rich people really are different.

With your coffee this morning, we have “the Dictator” spills Kim Jong Il’s ashes on Ryan Seacrest, who is Buffett’s successor and Billabong rejects TPG.

With your coffee this morning, we have Apple buys Chomp, Apollo is near a $7 bln deal for El Paso’s oil & gas exploration unit and the challenge of wooing Generation C.

In First Read, Flickr gets a makeover, Anonymous hacks the Greek ministry website and Obama sings again.