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[NEWS FLASH] Yahoo+Microsoft - once more with feeling
inquisitr.com - 11/30/2008
[NEWS FLASH] Yahoo+Microsoft - once more with feeling
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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. Word is that it will take $20bn bucks this time ...
business.timesonline.co.uk - 11/30/2008
Microsoft in $20bn Yahoo deal
— business.timesonline.co.uk — SOFTWARE giant Microsoft is in talks to acquire Yahoo s online search business for $20 billion (... 13 billion). The proposal forms the centrepiece of a complex transaction that would see Microsoft support a new management team to take control of ... (more) Microsoft in $20bn Yahoo deal

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kara.allthingsd.com - 11/30/2008
“Total Fiction”: There Is No $20 Billion Microsoft Deal To Buy Yahoo Search
— kara.allthingsd.com — 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 ... (more) “Total Fiction”: There Is No $20 Billion Microsoft Deal ...

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As Carl Icahn Buys More Yahoo Shares, Is It the Sign That a CEO Choice Is Near?
kara.allthingsd.com - 11/28/2008
As Carl Icahn Buys More Yahoo Shares, Is It the Sign That a CEO Choice Is Near?
— kara.allthingsd.com — When everyone else has been selling, it seems Carl Icahn has decided to throw good money after... bad–as in nearly $1 billion bad–by buying almost seven million more of Yahoo shares, according to a regulatory filing . Why is he doing ... (more) As Carl Icahn Buys More Yahoo Shares, Is It the Sign ...

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Technology - Channel Feed:  Microsoft and Yahoo Talking Again? Kind of…

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Microsoft and Yahoo Talking Again? Kind of…
Technology - Channel Feed — Image: Microsoft and Yahoo logo mix I just saw a post from Inquisitr saying the discussions between Microsoft and Yahoo may be back on again. The Inquisitr article linked to this story in the TimeOnline website that discussed the details of the discussions being presented from the two parties. The external investors would also have the right to appoint three of Yahoo’s 11 board directors. The talks with Yahoo involve Microsoft obtaining a 10-year operating ...

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