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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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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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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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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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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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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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Los Angeles Times
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Yahoo Inc. said Wednesday that Chief Technology Officer Farzad Nazem would retire, leaving two of the top executive posts at the company unfilled.
Nazem will leave June 8, Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Yahoo said. Co-founder Jerry Yang will oversee Yahoo's t..
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BusinessWeek
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An 11% decline in profits raises questions about Terry Semel's longevity and overshadows the expansion of the search engine's eBay partnership
Panama's patina has officially worn off. A disappointing first-quarter earnings report on Apr. 17 largely era..
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Yahoo News
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Yahoo Inc. is greatly expanding its relationship with the newspaper industry, announcing the addition Monday of four new publishing companies to a consortium that works with the Internet company to sell advertising online.
Yahoo is also broadening the..
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BusinessWeek
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A new partnership gives the Web portal a leg up in its ongoing battle with Google for a bigger share of the online-advertising market
Yahoo! has new reason to holler, and it's at Google's expense. The Internet portal announced a multiyear deal with Via..
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Wired
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Early one Sunday morning in 2002, a phone rings in Yu Ling's Beijing duplex. She's cleaning upstairs; her son is asleep, while downstairs, her husband, Wang Xiaoning, is on the computer. Wang writes about politics, anonymously e-mailing his online e-journ..
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Yahoo News
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As Facebook.com's mastermind, Mark Zuckerberg is sitting on a potential gold mine that could make him the next Silicon Valley whiz kid to strike it rich.
But the 22-year-old founder of the Internet's second largest social-networking site also could tur..
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home.businesswire.com
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Beliefnet, Inc., the leading multi-faith, spirituality media company and online community, and Yahoo! Personals, the leading online dating service(a), today announced a relationship that will create the largest and most active community of spiritual onlin..
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New Scientist
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US technology firms including Microsoft, Google and Yahoo have come under fire for allegedly helping China monitor suspected dissidents...
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