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tech.yahoo.com - 11/7/2008
Microsoft CEO pours cold water on Yahoo interest (Reuters) by Reuters: Yahoo! Tech
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer dismissed speculation the software giant might still be interested in buying Yahoo Inc , sending shares of the Internet company down 14 percent. "We made an offer, we made another offer ... We moved on," Ballmer told a business ...
yhoo.client.shareholder.com - 11/5/2008
Yahoo! Inc. - Management Team
— yhoo.client.shareholder.com — Jerry Yang Jerry Yang CEO and Chief Yahoo Download larger image (85k) Print Biography Jerry Yang, a... Taiwanese native raised in San Jose, Calif., co-created the Yahoo! Internet navigational guide in April 1994 with David Filo and co-founded Yahoo! Inc. ... (more) Yahoo! Inc. - Management Team

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Yahoo’s Yang Has No Regrets — He Should [GigaOM]
gigaom.com - 11/6/2008
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: Poor, Alone and Sad
techcrunch.com - 11/6/2008
Yahoo: Poor, Alone and Sad
— techcrunch.com — Six months ago Jerry Yang took the stage at the D Conference to talk about the state... of his business. His painted a picture of a Yahoo that was spinning in circles with no clear future. Fast forward six months and nothing has changed. Except ... (more) Yahoo: Poor, Alone and Sad

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Ballmer: Yahoo Buyout Is Not Gonna Happen
paidContent — ... Sorry, Jerry, a buyout's not gonna happen. That's the message MSFT CEO Steve Ballmer made clear at a business luncheon in Sydney, Reuters says. ...

Microsoft has no plans to buy Yahoo! (this time)
Download Squad — ... A few seconds after Google kicked Yahoo! to the curb by severing an agreement to place AdSense ads on Yahoo! search pages, folks started speculating that Yahoo! might go crawling back to Microsoft. The two companies had engaged in extensive talks earlier this ...

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