techcrunch.com - 12/3/2008
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Today’s Wall Street Journal story talking about yet another takeover attempt of Yahoo is incorrect, say out own sources. And unlike The Times’ story over the weekend, which was equally fictitious , this story had direct consequences in the market.
Today’s story as former AOL ...
amlawdaily.typepad.com - 12/3/2008
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amlawdaily.typepad.com —
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
online.wsj.com - 12/2/2008
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online.wsj.com —
Former AOL Chief Executive Jonathan Miller is trying
to raise money to purchase a portion or all...
of Yahoo Inc., according to people familiar with the matter. Mr. Miller has been talking to private equity investors and sovereign wealth funds for ...
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Former AOL Chief Seeks Funds for Yahoo Deal
microsoft.com - 12/4/2008
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microsoft.com —
Yahoo! veteran to oversee Internet offerings for consumers,
advertisers and publishers. REDMOND, Wash. — Dec. 4, 2008...
— Microsoft Corp. today announced that Dr. Qi Lu will join the company as president of the Online Services Group. Dr. Lu will lead ...
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Microsoft Appoints Dr. Qi Lu to Run Online Services ...
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Talks of a Yahoo takeover seem, shall we say, greatly exaggerated
L.A. Times Tech Blog —
... the Yahoo board in August. Miller is still under consideration to replace Jerry Yang as Yahoo's CEO. Yahoo board members are interviewing potential candidates.
For the record, Velocity Interactive denied the first report in the Times. It's not commenting on the second in the Wall Street Journal, which said Miller is trying to put together a deal to offer Yahoo shareholders between $20 and $22 per share, which would value Yahoo at about $30 billion.
But we aren't the only ones to think that in this case, the stock market's newspaper of record ...
Yahoo: No One Is Buying WSJ’s Miller Buyout Theory
BARRONS.com: Tech Trader Daily —
Update: Miller NOT Gunning for Yahoo
Tech Observer —
... Sam Gustin writes: Several reports now say that Jonathan Miller, routinely mentioned as a possible successor to Yahoo's outgoing chief executive Jerry Yang, is out raising money, but for his venture capital fund, not for a potential buyout of ...
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inquisitr.com 12/3/2008 —
Yahoo experienced downtime this afternoon with reports that the outage affected Yahoo services including Messenger and Yahoo.com.
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Shares of Yahoo jumped 7 percent Tuesday following a report that former AOL chief executive Jonathan Miller was interested in buying the struggling search company. Citing unidentified sources with knowledge of the situation, the Wall Street Journal ...
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