news.cnet.com - 7/29/2009
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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 Wednesday announced a 10-year search deal ...
reuters.com - 7/29/2009
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reuters.com —
Alexei Oreskovic and Bill Rigby SAN FRANCISCO/SEATTLE (Reuters)
- Microsoft Corp and Yahoo Inc inked a 10-year...
Web search deal to better compete against market leader Google Inc but stopped short of combining their display advertising businesses. ...
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Microsoft, Yahoo in 10-year Web search partnership
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kara.allthingsd.com - 7/22/2009
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kara.allthingsd.com —
Yahoo plans on announcing Thursday that it has
bought Xoopit for a price in the $20 million...
range, according to several sources, one of its first acquisitions in a long while. Reached late this afternoon by BoomTown, a Yahoo spokeswoman declined ...
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Yahoo to Acquire Xoopit for About $20 Million
aphnetworks.com - 7/27/2009
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aphnetworks.com —
From DailyTech: Yahoo and Microsoft have had a
very tumultuous relationship. Microsoft wanted to buy Yahoo but...
it and Yahoo were unable to come to an agreement that would merge the two companies. Microsoft ultimately tried a hostile takeover of the company that failed and the end result ...
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Microsoft, Yahoo Square Off Again
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Yahoo, Microsoft reach search, ad deal
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... and usefulness."
Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz, meanwhile, said that the move will help Yahoo focus on other areas, also adding that the deal has the full support of the company's board (lest anyone wonder what Carl Icahn thinks about the more limited deal).
"This is a significant opportunity for us," Bartz said. "Microsoft is an industry innovator in search and it is a great opportunity for us to focus our investments in other areas critical to our future."
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Microsoft makes search and ad deal with Yahoo
DV Hardware —
... After a fruitless attempt to acquire Yahoo last year, Microsoft has struck a 10-year deal with the Internet company to take on Google. Under the deal, Microsoft will power Yahoo's search engine while Yahoo will take care of both companies' premium search advertisers.
The deal must still pass regulators and the companies expect it will take a year or two to fully get the partnership up and running.
Full details including the financial side can be found over at CNET. ...
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