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Google Bails on Yahoo Deal
Apparently Google would rather abandon its proposed advertising partnership with Yahoo than have the government dictate its terms. This morning Google walked away from the deal saying it’s not in the company’s best interests to risk the protracted legal battle brewing over it. From ...
Official Google Blog: Ending our agreement with Yahoo!
googleblog.blogspot.com — In June we announced an advertising agreement with Yahoo! that gave Yahoo! the option of using Google... to provide ads on its websites (and its publisher partners' sites) in the U.S. and Canada. At the same time, both companies agreed to delay ... (more) Official Google Blog: Ending our agreement with Yahoo!
Yahoo! Inc. - Press Release
yhoo.client.shareholder.com — Yahoo! Announces Termination of Services Agreement by Google SUNNYVALE, Calif., Nov 05, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Yahoo!... Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO), a leading global Internet company, today announced that Google has terminated the advertising services ... (more) Yahoo! Inc. - Press Release
Yahoo’s Yang Has No Regrets — He Should [GigaOM]
Yahoo’s Yang Has No Regrets — He Should [GigaOM]
gigaom.com — In hindsight, we are all geniuses or simpletons — it’s just a matter of how much time... we give history to ferment. At this point, it doesn’t look like history will be kind to Jerry Yang, who has had the unenviable job of ... (more) Yahoo’s Yang Has No Regrets — He Should [GigaOM]
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Yahoo: We are so totally screwed
mathewingram.com/work — ... As John Paczkowski notes at All Things D, this deal was supposed to generate as much as half a billion dollars worth of additional cash flow in its first year, money Yahoo could definitely use. But more than that, this deal was a way of trying to stand on its own two feet (albeit while leaning on Google for support), and that is now gone. Microsoft, which had its takeover bid for Yahoo derailed by the Google arrangement — among other things — is no doubt doing the math on another bid. ...

Yahoo-Microsoft Regulatory Filings Start This Week: Let the Legal Game-Playing Begin!
BoomTown — ... That deal was ended by Google, after it was clear that Justice was going to fight it by arguing that top search companies hooking up hurt competition. ...

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