business.timesonline.co.uk - 11/30/2008
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SOFTWARE giant Microsoft is in talks to acquire Yahoo s online search business for $20 billion ( 13 billion). The proposal forms the centrepiece of a complex transaction that would see Microsoft support a new management team to take control of Yahoo. But there is no intention of Microsoft ...
amlawdaily.typepad.com - 12/4/2008
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December 2, 2008 1:00 PM Hogan's Litvack Discusses
Google/Yahoo Posted by Nate Raymond Litvack Google Inc. and
Yahoo! Inc. called off their joint advertising agreement just three hours before the Department of Justice planned to file antitrust charges ...
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Hogan's Litvack Discusses Google/Yahoo
news.cnet.com - 11/24/2008
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Microsoft is expected to rebrand and relaunch its
Windows Live Search, according to various reports. There have
been tremors on the Web that Microsoft was considering a new brand name for Live Search, and now the site LiveSide is reporting that ...
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Windows Live Search to be rebranded Kumo?
voices.washingtonpost.com - 11/26/2008
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Microsoft is rising quickly on a running list
of the Top 10 Worst Spam Service ISPs as
maintained by spamhaus.org , a group that tracks unsolicited commercial e-mail. livespam.jpg The software giant debuted on the list earlier this month at number 9 ...
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Spamhaus: Microsoft Now 5th Most Spam Friendly ISP
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Microsoft to indirectly take Control over Yahoo Search?
I4U News —
... Media would become the new Yahoo management team after Jerry Yang stepped down. Microsoft would provide $5 billion to the management duo and they would raise another $5 billion to take control of 30% of Yahoo Microsoft would obtain a 10 year operating agreement to manage the Yahoo search business as part of the deal and a call option to buy the Yahoo search business for $20 billion. Sounds all very complicated, but the The Sunday Times tells that story. More details on the Times Online . Posted on Sat, 29 Nov 2008 22:03:44 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr ...
Microsoft Bidding for Yahoo!'s Search Business: Report (Update: Nah)
DriverHeaven.net —
... A little over a month ago Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said a Yahoo! deal still "makes sense," but that same afternoon, a Microsoft press release quashed any speculation by saying there were "no discussions between the companies."
A report in the Sunday edition of the Times Online is set to re-ignite that speculation.
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Source: Tech-Ex ...
Microsoft Might Be Looking To Acquire Yahoo Search
Maximum PC —
... . If this turns out to be true however, will Kumo or Yahoo Live be the new brand surging out of the gate? According to The Times of London, Microsoft is in talks again with Yahoo to acquire its search business for an estimated $20 billion dollars. AOL CEO Johnathan Miller and former Fox Interactive President Ross Levinsohn are reportedly heading up the negotiations. ...
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Microsoft and Yahoo Need a Bit More Time to Negotiate a Deal
maximumpc.com 25 days ago — In a filing with the SEC, Yahoo said more time is needed to complete the search and advertising deal with Microsoft. The two sides had agreed in late July to have everything squared away by October 27, but hammering out the details of a long term deal is taking longer than expected.
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Yahoo, Microsoft reach search, ad deal
news.cnet.com 7/29/2009 — Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer uses a giant pen to sign the 10-year deal, alongside Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz, on Wednesday at Yahoo's headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif. (Credit: Yahoo/Microsoft )
After months of fits and starts , Microsoft and Yahoo on ...
Analyst changes tune on a Microsoft-Yahoo deal
gamingheaven.net 4/28/2009 — 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 ...
AFP: Yahoo! open to sale, partnership for search business
google.com 2/26/2009 — 16 hours ago SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) Internet pioneer Yahoo! is open to selling its Web search business or entering into a partnership with another company, but doing a deal would be hard, a top executive said on Wednesday. "We are not opposed to doing a ...
Yahoo Mobile Out In Limited Beta -- Yahoo Mobile -
informationweek.com 2/17/2009 — Yahoo launched a new mobile service for smartphones in limited beta and said it plans to open the service to the general public in the second quarter. The company said that an updated version of Yahoo Mobile is available in limited beta. It will ...
Yahoo! loses! another! boss! —
The Register 11/28/2008
European MD jumps Yahoo!'s European managing director Toby Coppel is joining the exodus from the firm. Coppel was previously chief strategy officer for the ailing internet firm.…
Xbox 360 Jasper mobo out in wild —
Home - THE INQUIRER 11/28/2008
Dean Pullen the Inquirer , Friday 28 November 2008. 11:55:00 With 256mb of built-in flash THE NEXT VERSION of the Xbox 360 motherboard has been spotted in the wild, and subsequently poked, prodded and pictured. Code-named 'Jasper', it comes ...
Markets tumble on recession news —
CNET News - Business Tech 12/1/2008
Shares of Dell and Qualcomm plunged by double digits Monday, as the Dow Jones Industrial Average went into a free-fall of nearly 700 points on news that the economy is officially in a recession .
(Credit: Yahoo Finance)
The Dow closed down ...
Nokia! won't! buy! Yahoo! —
The Register 12/2/2008
Doesn't need the aggro Nokia has enough on its hands without acquiring a basket-case internet company. CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo ruled out a purchase of Yahoo! here in Barcelona today, saying Nokia can do just as badly in web services on its own, ...