searchengineland.com - 11/19/2008
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Coming just 24 hours after the resignation of Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is saying publicly that Redmond is “open” to a “search collaboration” with Yahoo but not a total acquisition of the Sunnyvale company. The Wall Street Journal and Seattle PI report on the remarks, ...
glue.yahoo.com - 11/20/2008
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ysearchblog.com - 11/20/2008
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valleywag.com - 11/19/2008
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Among the many windmills Jerry Yang tilted at
in his brief career as Yahoo's CEO was his...
devotion to Web search. It veered on an obsession for him. It played into his decision to resist Microsoft's offers to shower him with cash, first for his whole ...
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MSFT: For Real, We’re Not Buying Yahoo . . . Except Maybe Search
Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim —
... all acquisition discussions with Yahoo. I’ve said that a bunch of times. Somehow some people have gotten confused nonetheless.
We did our best. We thought we had something that made sense. It didn’t make sense to them. We’ve moved on.
But perhaps he doth protest too much—especially when he follows that up with saying that purchasing the search portion of Yahoo is “interesting.”
The WSJ and Seattle PI (via) also report that Ballmer says he’s open to a “search collaboration” ...
Search Deal Back on the Table
John Battelle's Searchblog —
SEL reports on a Journal piece:
The search collaboration that Ballmer referred to would presumably be similar to the search (as opposed to acquisition) deal previously offered to Yahoo — essentially to have Yahoo outsource search and SEM to Microsoft in exchange for guaranteed revenues over a several year period. Danny did a detailed post on the prior Microsoft search offer to Yahoo (compared with the now defunct Google deal).
That offer, as with the larger acquisition offer itself, was previously rejected by Yahoo as undervaluing the business. It ...
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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.
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Several sources close to Yahoo and Microsoft have told BoomTown that a search partnership deal between the companies is more likely to be signed quickly, now that Yahoo has picked former Autodesk CEO Carol Bartz as its next CEO .
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Yahoo And Yang's Greatest Hits
paidcontent.org 11/18/2008 — Looks like Yahoo will have to re-draw their org chart. Again. Jerry Yang announced he would step down as CEO of the company and we've suggested possible candidates to replace him, including a to-do list . In the meantime, a timeline below of all ...
Report: Microsoft in talks with Yahoo again
blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com 11/30/2008 — 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.
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online.wsj.com 12/5/2008 — NICK WINGFIELD After a nearly five month search, Microsoft Corp. on Thursday said it has found a new executive to lead its charge against Google Inc. in the online search and advertising business: Qi Lu, a technologist who was previously a top ...
Surprise! Yahoo Now Has Edge In Microsoft Search Negotiations
businessinsider.com 2/24/2009 — Remember Yahoo's boneheaded refusal of that excellent takeover offer from Microsoft? So do we. We also remember how our shares in the company immediately plummeted from $30 to $10 when Yahoo finally blew the deal and Microsoft walked away.
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Yahoo rolls out new data-retention policy
latimesblogs.latimes.com 12/17/2008 — Search engines are now competing to win the privacy PR war.
Amid mounting concern from regulators and watchdogs in Washington and Europe that large Internet companies are compromising their users' privacy by keeping data about online behavior for ...
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