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Microsoft Aims for Yahoo's Search Ad Biz

Posted May 19, 08 9:09 PM CDT in Technology,  Business 

(Newser) – Microsoft's new offer to Yahoo includes breaking up the company and buying its search-advertising business, notions that have left Yahoo execs cold, the Wall Street Journal reports. Under the plan, Yahoo would sell its Asian assets and let Microsoft buy a minority stake in what's left of the company.

Some Yahoo sources are calling the new offer an attempt to pressure Yahoo out of its search-ad deal with Google; those talks are apparently ongoing. Microsoft hasn't named a price for the Yahoo's search-advertising business, but one analyst estimates it's worth about $21 billion. The Asian assets would go for at least $10 billion.

Source Wall Street Journal

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In this March 3, 2008 file photo, Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, addresses the media during a news conference at the CeBIT in Hanover, northern Germany.   (AP Photo/Joerg Sarbach, file)
In this Nov. 7, 2007 file photo, Microsoft Corp. Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer reacts during a conference in Beijing, China.   (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, file)
In this Jan. 7, 2008 file photo of Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang giving a keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.   (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, file)
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