techcrunch.com - 12/1/2008
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We were doubtful last night when the story first broke . 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 ...
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 ...
(more)
Microsoft in $20bn Yahoo deal
kara.allthingsd.com - 11/30/2008
online.wsj.com - 12/2/2008
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online.wsj.com —
Former AOL Chief Executive Jonathan Miller is trying
to raise money to purchase a portion or all...
of Yahoo Inc., according to people familiar with the matter. Mr. Miller has been talking to private equity investors and sovereign wealth funds for ...
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Former AOL Chief Seeks Funds for Yahoo Deal
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L.A. Times Tech Blog —
... -- When you ruin journalists' Saturday on a holiday weekend with an apparently bogus story like that, they're going to be cranky. Mike Arrington: "The Times, first published in 1785, has long been considered the newspaper of record in the UK, but [Saturday] they really stepped in it, and someone has manipulated them badly." TechCrunch ...
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