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gamingheaven.net - 4/28/2009
Analyst changes tune on a Microsoft-Yahoo deal
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Throughout 2008's on-again, off-again talks between Yahoo and Microsoft , many financial analysts declared the belief that some sort of deal--either Microsoft acquiring Yahoo outright or later just its search business--was a matter of when, not if. One report released Tuesday, though, shows at ...
reuters.com - 4/23/2009
Yahoo pulls the plug on GeoCities | Technology
— reuters.com — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc is shutting down GeoCities, a free service that hosts personal home... pages for consumers, which it acquired for more than $4 billion 10 years ago during the heyday of the dotcom boom. A posting on a Yahoo Help page ... (more) Yahoo pulls the plug on GeoCities | Technology

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microsoft.com - 4/30/2009
Microsoft Download Center
— microsoft.com — United States Change | All Microsoft Sites Microsoft Download Center Downloads A-Z Product Families Business Solutions Developer... Tools Games & Xbox MSN Office Servers Windows Windows Live Windows Mobile Download Categories Development Resources ... (more) Microsoft Download Center

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Yahoo! pulls the plug on GeoCities
neoseeker.com - 4/23/2009
Yahoo! pulls the plug on GeoCities
— neoseeker.com — It is a sad day for many, as we learn that Yahoo! will be pulling the plug... on the once extremely popular, personal website service GeoCities. New registrations at GeoCities have been disabled, though existing users can continue to use the service and a... (more) Yahoo! pulls the plug on GeoCities

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