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Microsoft, Yahoo Finalize Search Alliance: Get Ready, Google

AP | Posted 12.04.2009 | Technology


SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. have signed off on their plan to team up against Google Inc. in the lucrative Internet search mar...

Yahoo! Restructuring, Jorgensen Out

Huffington Post | Julie Satow | Posted 03.29.2009 | Business


UPDATE: CNBC Is reporting that Blake Jorgensen is leaving Yahoo! For more on the restructuring of the company, click here. The stock is rising on th...

Yahoo Board Meeting Should Be Chippy

AP | MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Posted 08.09.2008 | Business


SAN JOSE, Calif. — Yahoo Inc.'s board emerged largely unscathed from the Internet company's annual meeting Friday as a subdued crowd of sharehol...

Spurned Microsoft Only Had Eyes For Yahoo

Reuters | Matt Daily | Posted 06.28.2008 | Business


Microsoft Corp's CEO said the company will not seek to make a spate of other Internet acquisitions in the wake of its failed bid for Yahoo Inc, the Fi...

Yahoo/Microsoft Deal Dead, Yahoo Enters Ad Deal With Google

Huffington Post | Posted 06.20.2008 | Business


**UPDATE** Reuters reports on the deal reached between Google and Yahoo: Yahoo Inc and Microsoft Corp ended talks as the Web pioneer agreed to let arc...

Carl Icahn Pressures Yahoo Board

AP | MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Posted 05.23.2008 | Business


SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Jerry Yang spent months fending off Microsoft Corp.'s unsolicited takeover bid. Now he may only have ...

Why Steve Ballmer And Microsoft Will Keep Chasing Yahoo

New York Times | Posted 05.07.2008 | Business


Why is Microsoft taking it sweet time showing its next move in the battle for Yahoo? I suspect it is simply arranging the forces for its next attack. ...

Yahoo-ers Hate AOL Deal But Too Afraid To Tell Jerry

Silicon Alley Insider | Henry Blodget | Posted 04.19.2008 | Business


Kara Swisher called up a half-dozen of her senior Yahoo (YHOO) sources and asked them what they thought of Yahoo's new merge-with-AOL-to-escape-Micros...

Google-Yahoo-Microsoft: Analysts React

PaidContent | Joseph Weisenthal | Posted 04.18.2008 | Business


With the Microsoft-Yahoo-Google (NSDQ: GOOG) dance so fluid, analyst reports are going stale pretty fast. Whereas just a couple days ago, most analyst...

Internet, Media Stars Line Up for Yahoo

AP | MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Posted 04.18.2008 | Business


SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo Inc.'s last-ditch efforts to avoid a takeover by Microsoft Corp. appear to be setting the stage for a dramatic finale feat...

Yahoo: We're Worth More Than $42 Billion

Los Angeles Times | Joseph Menn and Jessica Guynn | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Yahoo Inc.'s top executives Tuesday began a weeklong campaign to convince major shareholders that the Web powerhouse is worth more than the $42 billio...

Is Microsoft Ready To Pull Its Yahoo Bid?

Silicon Alley Insider | Henry Blodget | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Kara Swisher revives an issue we raised a few weeks back: What happens if Yahoo (YHOO) blows Q1? This question has no doubt been bandied about in Micr...

News Corp Will Not Fight Microsoft For Yahoo

Reuters | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Rupert Murdoch said on Monday his News Corp (NWSa.N) would not get into a fight with Microsoft Corp over Yahoo Inc, confirming what most industry and ...

2 Top Yahoo Execs Get Bigger Bonuses

AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Yahoo Inc. increased two top executives' bonuses last year amid a deepening slump that set the stage for Microsoft Corp.'s u...

Yahoo Scrambles to Block Microsoft Deal

AP | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Yahoo Inc. has extended a deadline for nominating candidates to its board, giving the struggling Internet pioneer more time ...

Yahoo Rejects Microsoft's Takeover Bid

AP | MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo Inc.'s rejection of Microsoft Corp.'s unsolicited takeover bid left investors guessing the next move in a tense mating dan...

Yahoo Formally Rejects Microsoft Offer

AP | MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Yahoo Inc. spurned Microsoft Corp.'s $44.6 billion takeover bid as inadequate Monday, betting that it can elicit a higher offer from the world's large...

Yahoo Board to Spurn $44B Microsoft Bid

AP | MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo Inc.'s board will reject Microsoft Corp.'s $44.6 billion takeover bid after concluding the unsolicited offer undervalues t...

Yang Finally Speaks

Silicon Alley Insider | Henry Blodget | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang wisely emerged from his bunker today, updating Yahoo's worldwide workforce about the Microsoft offer via an email message and pat...

Yahoo's White Knight: Microsoft Shareholders

Silicon Alley Insider | Henry Blodget | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Microsoft's shareholders are unhappy about the Yahoo offer--and they're expressing their displeasure by voting with their feet. As they do, they're dr...

Yahoo Running Out Of Options

Los Angeles Times | Jessica Guynn, Thomas Mulligan, Joseph Menn | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


It looks as if Yahoo will be dragged down the aisle by its suitor, Microsoft, no matter how loudly Google speaks its piece. On Monday, other potentia...

Google Assails Microsoft Over Yahoo Deal

AP | MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


SAN FRANCISCO — Google Inc. raised the specter of Microsoft Corp. using its proposed $42 billion acquisition of Yahoo Inc. to gain illegal contr...

Fundrace: Microsoft-Yahoo Edition

Huffington Post | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


In honor of Microsoft's $44.6 billion takeover bid of Yahoo, the Huffington Post is taking a close look at how the leading players in the deal stack ...

Stocks Cap Strong Week With Gains

AP | TIM PARADIS | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


NEW YORK — Wall Street capped a week of big gains with another sizable advance Friday after investors set aside anxiety over news that the econo...

Will Yahoo Bid Put AOL in Play?

New York Times | Dealbook | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


With its potential to redraw the battle lines in the struggle for Internet domination, Microsoft's $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo may end up putting othe...