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BusinessWeek
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Though beset by restive shareholders and pressure from Carl Icahn, Yang has his reasons to push for a better deal from Microsoft
For more than a month, Yahoo (YHOO) co-founder and Chief Executive Jerry Yang has endured a withering attack by shareholder..
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MSNBC
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Microsoft Corp. is offering cash rebates when people make purchases after using its search engine as the software maker begins to reveal how it plans to take on Google Inc. following the failure of its $47.5 billion bid for Yahoo.
Analysts and investor..
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BusinessWeek
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Carl Icahn is leading a charge to replace the board at the Internet icon and push for a deal
Every day it looks more likely that Yahoo! (YHOO) co-founders Jerry Yang and David Filo will lose control of the company they built into the Net's first iconic..
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BusinessWeek
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The latest talks clearly suggest Microsoft lacks a Plan B to compete with Google in search, while Yahoo is feeling the heat from Carl Icahn
When Microsoft announced May 3 that it was dropping its $47.5 billion bid for Yahoo (BusinessWeek.com, 5/3/08),..
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MSNBC
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Yahoo Inc. and McAfee Inc. are joining to offer alerts about potentially dangerous Web sites alongside search results generated at Yahoo.com.
With the new security feature — slated to take effect Tuesday — people who search the Internet using Yahoo..
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MSNBC
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Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Jerry Yang is convinced that the company he started in a Silicon Valley trailer 14 years ago is worth more than the $47.5 billion that Microsoft Corp. had offered for the Internet pioneer.
Now he may only have a few months to..
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BBC News
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Yahoo and Google, the world's two biggest search engines, have announced a two-week experiment that will see them share advertising space.
During the pilot, Google will be able to place ads alongside 3% of search results on Yahoo's website.
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MSNBC
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Microsoft Corp and News Corp are in talks about a joint bid for Yahoo Inc that would add MySpace to the Yahoo-Microsoft combination proposed by the world's largest software maker, the New York Times reported on Wednesday.
The talks with News Corp, whic..
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BusinessWeek
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Its directors have three weeks to come to the bargaining table or Microsoft will launch a fight to replace them
Microsoft (MSFT) just dropped the bomb on Yahoo (YHOO). Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on Apr. 5 sent a letter giving Yahoo's board three weeks..
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MSNBC
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Internet icon Yahoo, under pressure from Microsoft to accept its $41 billion buyout offer, said Monday it doesn't oppose a deal with the huge software maker but wants a better deal.
The statement comes after Microsoft warned Saturday that if a deal isn..
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MSNBC
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Microsoft is not privately haggling with Yahoo over the software maker’s rejected $31-per-share buyout offer for the slumping Internet pioneer, Bill Gates said in an interview.
“We sent them a letter and said we think that’s a fair offer. There�..
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MSNBC
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Yahoo may be reluctant prey for Microsoft. But that doesn’t mean the former Internet wunderkind has a lot of choices.
Yahoo Monday formally rejected Microsoft’s $44.6 billion offer. But in many ways, Yahoo’s hands may be tied in escaping Microsof..
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SF Gate
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Yahoo Inc.'s board formally rejected Microsoft's $44.6 billion takeover today, saying that it "substantially undervalues" the Web portal, but at the same time, left the door open for a counter offer.
After evaluating the proposal, the board unanimously..
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MSNBC
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Unshaken by a two-year losing streak, Yahoo Inc. is poised to take its biggest gamble yet by rejecting Microsoft Corp.’s unsolicited bid to buy the slumping Internet icon for $44.6 billion.
Yahoo’s board decided to spurn the takeover bid, originall..
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MSNBC
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Yahoo Inc. would consider a business alliance with Google Inc. as one way to rebuff a $44.6 billion takeover proposal by Microsoft, a source familiar with Yahoo's strategy said on Sunday.
Yahoo management is considering revisiting talks it held with Go..
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CNN
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Software giant Microsoft said Friday it had made an unsolicited offer to buy Internet search engine operator Yahoo with a cash and stock bid worth $44.6 billion. The $31-a-share offer represents a 62 percent premium for shareholders above the closing pric..
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MSNBC
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Yahoo Inc.’s financial funk deepened at the end of 2007, prompting the slumping Internet icon to draw up plans to lay off 1,000 workers.
The Sunnyvale-based company disclosed the upcoming 7 percent reduction in its 14,300-employee work force Tuesday..
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BBC News
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Yahoo has moved to further strengthen its service to advertisers by buying web marketing business BlueLithium for $300m (�149.4m).
Set up in 2004, BlueLithium provides technology enabling websites to better match adverts with users' interests.
The..
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BusinessWeek
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Semel's out; Yang and Decker are taking the top spots. Can this duo revive the struggling company?
Except for the sudden timing, Yahoo!'s announcement June 18 that Terry Semel is leaving as chief executive was remarkable only for how few people were su..
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BBC News
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The chief executive of internet search firm Yahoo, Terry Semel, has quit his position and has been replaced by co-founder Jerry Yang.
In the post since 2001, Mr Semel has been under pressure for some time amid disappointing trading results and the grow..
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