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Yahoo CEO Yang reaches out to Microsoft's Ballmer

 
Hours after Google killed plans to run ads on Yahoo's search results pages, Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang publicly reached out to Microsoft to restart negotiations to combine the two companies. (link)

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