MSFT/Yahoo Round 2: What Will Probably Happen
WatchMojo.com Business & Technology — ... Rumor has it that MSFT is kicking YHOO’s tires, again, but this time it’s only going after the search component of the business.  We know search is key because it accounts for 40% of the only remaining bright spot in advertising, but also because it is seen within MSFT’s walls as a “platform”.  From ...

[NEWS FLASH] Yahoo+Microsoft - once more with feeling
The Inquisitr » Technology — ... According to an article just posted to the Times Online site the Microsoft and Yahoo talks are back on folks. Now beware this could all be rumour (please let it be) but I would be negligent in my duties if I didn’t pass this a long. ...

A new, elaborate $20 billion deal for Microsoft to buy Yahoo Search?
VentureBeat — ... Stop me if you’ve heard this before: There’s a report out there that Microsoft is in talks with Yahoo. The report, by the UK-based Times Online, claims that Microsoft is specifically once again trying to acquire just Yahoo’s search business. The price? $20 billion. ...

Microsoft Bidding for Yahoo!’s Search Business: Report
Alice Hill's Real Tech News - Independent Tech — ... a Yahoo! deal still “makes sense,” but that same afternoon, a Microsoft press release quashed any speculation by saying there were “no discussions between the companies.” A report in the Sunday edition of the Times Online is set to re-ignite that speculation. The report lists, well, no sources at all, not even anonymous ones. It states that the deal will consist of Microsoft acquiring a 10-year operating agreement to manage the Yahoo! search business, with a two-year call option to buy the business for $20 billion. There is no chance of a complete acquisition of the ...

Report: Microsoft in talks with Yahoo! again
SEO and Tech Daily — ... receive a two-year call option to buy the search business for $20 billion. That would leave Yahoo to run its own e-mail, messaging, and content services." Recent stats from ComScore have shown that Yahoo! had increased it's market share in the past few months and this latest chapter would give the new 'operating group' control of the search business for a fraction of the original bid made before the 'economic downturn'. The Times story is online and can be found here. ...

Microsoft to indirectly take Control over Yahoo Search?
I4U News — ... Media would become the new Yahoo management team after Jerry Yang stepped down. Microsoft would provide $5 billion to the management duo and they would raise another $5 billion to take control of 30% of Yahoo Microsoft would obtain a 10 year operating agreement to manage the Yahoo search business as part of the deal and a call option to buy the Yahoo search business for $20 billion. Sounds all very complicated, but the The Sunday Times tells that story. More details on the Times Online . Posted on Sat, 29 Nov 2008 22:03:44 CST | by Luigi Lugmayr ...

Microsoft Currently In Talks To Acquire Yahoo!’s Search Business For $20 Billion
Pulse2 - Technology News And Reviews — ... would setup a $5 billion facility for Miller and Ross Levinsohn, former President of FOX Interactive Media to run Yahoo!  These two would also raise an additional $5 billion from external investors.  Microsoft would have operating control of the search business for 10 years.  Microsoft would also be given a two-year call option to buy Yahoo!’s search business for $20 billion.  Yahoo! would be left with it’s e-mail, messaging, and content services. [Source: Times Online UK] ...

Microsoft and Yahoo Talking Again? Kind of…
Technology - Channel Feed — ... The Inquisitr article linked to this story in the TimeOnline website that discussed the details of the discussions being presented from the two parties. ...

Report: Microsoft in talks with Yahoo again
The Microsoft Blog — According to a report on the Times of London Web site, Microsoft Corp. has resumed its pursuit of Yahoo in a deal that could cost the Redmond-based company $20 billion, less than half of what it offered for the search site this summer. The report, which you can read here , says Microsoft has put forward Jonathan Miller, ex-chairman and chief executive of AOL, and Ross Levinsohn, a former president of Fox Interactive Media, to lead a new management team at Yahoo under a 10-year agreement. Microsoft would have a two-year option to buy Yahoo outright for $20 billion. The report ...

Update: Microsoft, Yahoo Said To Be Hammering Out $20 Billion Search Buyout
paidContent — ... ) is working out a deal that would ultimately net it Yahoo's search business for $20 billion, The Times Online reports. It's a complex deal with many moving parts: ...

Another Microsoft Yahoo Deal in the Works?
ReadWriteWeb — ... Yet another report has surfaced that Microsoft is in talks to acquire Yahoo!. Not only is a different number being reported - $20 billion - but there is a new twist: Microsoft only wants Yahoo's online search business. ...

“Total Fiction”: There Is No $20 Billion Microsoft Deal To Buy Yahoo Search
BoomTown — ... A report in the Times of London in Microsoft would buy Yahoo’s search business in a convoluted $20 billion deal that would include well-known Internet execs Jon Miller and Ross Levinsohn, is–in the words of one key player–”total fiction.” ...

MSFT and Yahoo: Nom nom nom
mathewingram.com/work — ... Kara Swisher at All Things Digital always gives me grief when I do this, but I’m going to do it anyway: Namely, point to a rumour — in this case, a rumour in the Times of London about Microsoft making some kind of convoluted deal to proceed with what amounts to a creeping takeover of Yahoo (Update: Kara says that ...

Is it On again? Times of London reporting $20B MSFT-YHOO deal
LiveSide - Windows Live news and interviews — ... A piece in the online version of Sunday’s Times of London is reporting that Microsoft and Yahoo are in talks again, in a complex deal that could see Microsoft acquiring Yahoo’s search business for $20 billion, after putting up $5 billion to fund a new management team headed reportedly by ex AOL chairman Jonathon Miller and Ross Levinsohn, a former Fox Interactive president. According to the Times: ...

Update: Microsoft, Yahoo reportedly in talks
The Microsoft Blog — The on-again, off-again talks between Yahoo and Microsoft are reportedly on again, with Microsoft willing to pay $20 billion for Yahoo's search business, according to the Times of London. Microsoft representatives could not be immediately reached for comment late Saturday evening. Still, the arrangement reportedly under discussion would mesh with what Microsoft executives have said publicly in recent months: While Microsoft is no longer interested in purchasing Yahoo, it is open to some sort of search partnership. As recently as two weeks ago, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer ...

Reports Of New Microsoft-Yahoo Search Deal Hard To Believe
TechCrunch — ... The UK’s Times Online is reporting that “Microsoft is in talks to acquire Yahoo’s online search business for $20 billion.” The report is filled with lots of juicy, specific details that lend it credence, but don’t make a lot of sense when you drill down into them. ...

Update: Microsoft, Yahoo Said To Be Hammering Out $20 Billion Search Buyout; Denied
paidContent — ... ) is working out a deal that would ultimately net it Yahoo's search business for $20 billion, The Times Online reports, but has been denied outright by parties involved. If it turns out to be true, it would be complex deal with many moving parts: ...

Did Microsoft (MSFT) just cut deal to buy Yahoo! (YHOO) search?
BloggingStocks — ... According to the UK paper, "Microsoft is in talks to acquire Yahoo's online search business for $20 billion (£13 billion)." In the transaction, former AOL CEO Jonathan Miller and former Fox executive Ross Levinsohn would end up managing Yahoo! and owning a big piece of the business. The account says that the boards of both companies have met on the deal. ...

Microsoft-Yahoo $20 Billion Search Deal Hogwash - Levinsohn
Silicon Alley Insider — The Times of London reports the details of an intricate pending Microsoft-Yahoo deal, in which Microsoft would buy Yahoo's search business for $20 billion and install Jon Miller and Ross Levinsohn to run the company. The concept sounds reasonable (Microsoft buying Yahoo search), but the price sounds ridiculous (Yahoo's whole market cap right now is about $15 billion). And a key player in the drama, Ross Levinsohn, says the whole thing is a crock. First, the Times' report: SOFTWARE giant Microsoft is in talks to acquire Yahoo's online search business for $20 ...

Another Day Another Yahoo Rumor [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... The Sunday Times of UK reports (more like speculates) that Microsoft is going to buy Yahoo’s search business for $20 billion in a very complex transaction. The Sunday Times claims that Jonathan Miller formerly chief executive of AOL, and Ross Levinsohn, a former president of Fox Interactive Media are going to run the new management team. ...

More Microsoft Yahoo Gossip
WebProNews Feed — ... by Microsoft, though an interest in Yahoo's search business is still evident. The latest gossip to circulate stems from an article at Times Online , which reports that Microsoft is in talks to acquire Yahoo's search business for $20 billion. Unsurprisingly, this report has been yet again shot down. BoomTown (of the Wall Street Journal network) writer Kara Swisher ...

Sunday Times story on Microsoft/Yahoo deal is 'total fiction' says All Things Digital
Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk — ... A story in today's Murdoch-owned Sunday Times has been rubbished by Kara Swisher at the Murdoch-owned All Things Digital blog, which is an offshoot of the Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal. The story claims that "Software giant Microsoft is in talks to acquire Yahoo's online search business for $20 billion (£13 billion)." It says: It is thought that Jonathan Miller, ex-chairman and chief executive of AOL, and Ross Levinsohn, a former president of Fox Interactive Media, have been lined up to lead the new management team. ...

Will It Float?
John Battelle's Searchblog — ... This comes from the Times of London, it seems that in UK, reporters are making a habit of, well, not doing any reporting. The use of passive voice makes my head spin. Listen to this: ...

More sources questioning Sunday Times story on complex Microsoft-Yahoo deal
The Seattle Times: Microsoft Pri0 — ... about a Sunday Times of London report on a complex deal being negotiated between Microsoft, Yahoo and other investors. Kara Swisher is quoting Ross Levinsohn saying the report is "total fiction" -- which is ...

The Times Gets Pwnd
TechCrunch — ... . There were just too many oddities to The Times’ story about a complicated Yahoo/Microsoft search deal that would guarantee billions to Yahoo in exchange for a ten year search deal. We’ve checked with our sources - all of them - and we can’t verify a single fact in the story. ...

Yahoo In Search Deal With MSFT? Apparently Not.
BARRONS.com: Tech Trader Daily — It’s The Times of London vs. Kara Swisher. The U.K. based Times reported on Sunday that Microsoft (MSFT) is in talks to acquire Yahoo’s (YHOO) search business. Kara, of AllThingsD.com, wrote a post in response that says the Times story is “total fiction” and that there is no such deal. Let’s review the key points of each piece. The Times story lays out a fairly elaborate plan for a deal; it certainly would be interesting to know ...

Disputed Report Says Microsoft To Acquire Yahoo’s Search Business—Any Truth To It?
Xconomy — ... On Saturday, the UK-based Times Online (aka The Times of London) reported that Microsoft was in talks to acquire Yahoo’s online search business, supposedly for $20 billion. The report, which didn’t cite its sources, suggested a new management team for Yahoo would be led by Jonathan Miller, the ex-chairman of AOL, and Ross Levinsohn, a former president of Fox Interactive Media. It also said Microsoft would provide a $5 billion facility to the management team, who “would raise an additional $5 billion from external investors.” ...

Why Carl Icahn Didn't Buy Enough Yahoo!
Forbes.com: Technology News — ... machine. So when corporate raider and Yahoo! board member Carl Icahn doubled down on Yahoo! in a Thanksgiving-week frenzy, after watching his previous investment lose $1 billion since buying 69 million shares of Yahoo! for $25 a share early this year, the question shouldn't be "Is he crazy?" The right question is: Has Icahn lost his nerve? That's because Yahoo is overdue for a trip to the corporate chop shop. And while All Things Digital's Kara Swisher debunked a report over the weekend in the Times of London that Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT ...

Forget Microsoft, Miller may make a run at Yahoo himself
VentureBeat — ... So maybe there was a little something to that Times report about the Microsoft and Yahoo deal after all. Former AOL chief executive Jonathan Miller is apparently attempting to raise money to make a run at buying a piece of — or all of — Yahoo, ...

Corporate Wolves Circle Yahoo's Goose
WebProNews Feed — ... Mountain View for Washington, or even (in a Hail Mary pass of predictions) sidle over to Sunnyvale to take over Yang s intended-to-be-temporary reign, new heavy-hitters emerge, each with their own entangling alliances. While America feasted last week, Britain s Times Online was reporting ex-chairman and CEO of AOL Jonathan Miller and Ross Levinsohn, former president of MySpace parent Fox Interactive Media, were selected to lead the new management team as Yahoo and Microsoft reenter discussions, this time with only the search business on the table. The rumored asking price ...

Talks of a Yahoo takeover seem, shall we say, greatly exaggerated
L.A. Times Tech Blog — ... Yahoo has been at the center of a whirlwind of takeover talk that seems to have one goal in mind: pull one over on investors. Over the weekend the Times of London published a widely debunked story about a $20-billion Microsoft search deal that had Jonathan Miller and Ross Levinsohn, both of venture capital firm Velocity Interactive Group, taking the reins of the struggling Internet giant. Today the Wall Street Journal claimed that Miller has been trying to raise money from sovereign wealth funds and ...