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Google Taps Quattrone for Yahoo Advice

Posted Apr 11, 08 11:00 AM CDT in Technology Business 

(Newser) – Google has hired controversial former dot-com banker Frank Quattrone to advise the company on its increasingly complicated role in Yahoo’s takeover drama, the New York Times reports. It’s Quattrone’s first high-visibility gig since his obstruction-of-justice conviction was overturned last year. Google CEO Eric Schmidt is a longtime associate of Quattrone’s.

Google is thought to be part of a three-way alliance with AOL designed to prevent Yahoo from falling into Microsoft’s clutches. But anti-trust rules make Google’s involvement a legal minefield. Still, Yahoo and Google announced an advertising deal Wednesday that Yahoo thinks could raise its value.

Sources New York Times, Times (UK)

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Frank Quattrone poses in this Qatalyst group publicity photo.   (AP Photo)
Eric Schmidt, Chairman and CEO of Google, addresses attendees of the Healthcare Information and Management System Society Conference in Orlando, Fla., Thursday, Feb. 28, 2008.   (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack)
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