blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com - 11/19/2008
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Some past and present Microsoft executives are being suggested today as possible candidates to replace Jerry Yang as CEO of Yahoo. Among them: > Kevin Johnson , the CEO of Juniper Networks, who was until September the president of the Platform & Services division at Microsoft, and played a top ...
tech.yahoo.com - 11/18/2008
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tech.yahoo.com —
SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo Inc . shares shot
up 11 percent Tuesday as investors took the resignation...
of CEO Jerry Yang to mean Microsoft Corp . is more likely to make another bid for the ailing Internet company. Yang's emotional attachment to the company ...
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Yahoo's Yang decides he's no longer the right CEO (AP) ...
news.cnet.com - 11/24/2008
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news.cnet.com —
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?
pcworld.com - 11/13/2008
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pcworld.com —
Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said today in
Sydney, Australia that the software giant is not interested...
in taking over Yahoo anymore. After Google abandoned this week a much-needed advertising partnership, Yahoo is now facing a difficult ...
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Microsoft Doesn't Want Yahoo Either
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