blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com - 11/30/2008
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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.
business.timesonline.co.uk - 11/30/2008
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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 ...
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Microsoft in $20bn Yahoo deal
kara.allthingsd.com - 11/30/2008
kara.allthingsd.com - 11/28/2008
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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 ...
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As Carl Icahn Buys More Yahoo Shares, Is It the Sign ...
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Is it On again? Times of London reporting $20B MSFT-YHOO deal
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... days, closing at $11.51 on Friday.
Microsoft had seen Yahoo’s search business as a way to help in its battle with search leader Google, but Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, has said repeatedly in recent months that he was not interested in a new deal to acquire the company. This latest reported effort would help to prop up both Yahoo’s bottom line and its management, while getting Microsoft what it wanted all along, which was search.
via Seattle PI Tech Report
UPDATE: Kara Swisher at The Wall Street Journal's ...
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