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Microsoft Wants Yahoo

"Long-term, a Microsoft-Yahoo! combination could pose a greater competitive risk to Google. But, near-term, we'd be skeptical that search users' overwhelming preference for Google would change." -Mark S. Mahaney

Look out Google: Microsoft is keen to compete, with its offer to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion in cash and stock. The deal was shot down, but Microsoft has made it clear that it will stop at nothing to take over the company. Such a move could redraw the landscape in Internet consumer services, where Microsoft and Yahoo have long stayed in Google's shadow.

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June 2008
- Ad Execs Feel Besieged by Google & Co.
  
  newser | New York Times | Jun 23, 08 3:22 PM CDT
  
  Advertisers are spooked at net giants like Google and Microsoft throwing their weight around in the world of online advertising, the New York Times reports. With its ad deal with Yahoo drawing fire at conference in Cannes, Google “clearly wants to replace the advertising industry in its totality," says the former CEO of a big New York agency. More »
- Amazon Kept Laughing After Dot-Com Bust
  
  newser | Economist | Jun 20, 08 4:45 PM CDT
  
  Yahoo, eBay, and Amazon emerged from the dot-com bust as a mighty triumvirate, but only Amazon has kept its mojo in the decade's latter stages, the Economist reports. Yahoo, the oldest of the lot at 14, shooed away Microsoft, surrendered part of its business to Google, and failed to stay current. It survives, “but on the web’s equivalent of life support." More »
- Yahoo to Reorganize in Wake of Microsoft Bid
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Jun 20, 08 7:26 AM CDT
  
  Regrouping in the aftermath of Microsoft’s takeover bid, Yahoo plans to consolidate its myriad branches, the Wall Street Journal reports. President Susan Decker aims to centralize the mail, search, and home-page teams to help boost earnings and justify its rejection of Microsoft’s $47.5 billion offer; some executives already have left amid the changes. More »
- Yang's First Year Leaves Many 'Disillusioned'
  
  newser | CNNMoney | Jun 19, 08 12:32 PM CDT
  
  Yahoo’s stock has slipped 16.5%, the company might as well be wearing a sign that says “take me over,” and there’s a line of shareholders waiting to sue for what they say was a mishandled non-deal with suitor Microsoft, Fortune reports—not quite the scenario Jerry Yang likely envisioned when he took over as CEO a year ago yesterday. More »
- MySpace Takes Aim at Yahoo
  
  newser | BusinessWeek | Jun 13, 08 2:08 PM CDT
  
  Myspace is retooling itself to become a more direct competitor to web portals, specifically Yahoo, BusinessWeek reports. Starting Wednesday, the popular social networking site will unveil changes to its homepage such as news headlines, local weather apps, and entertainment links. More »
- Yahoo and Google: It's All Up to Yang
  
  newser | CNET | Jun 13, 08 10:08 AM CDT
  
  As Yahoo and Google prepare for a new search-ad deal, it’s all up to CEO Jerry Yang, writes Charles Cooper for CNET. Will Yang be the next Steve Jobs, pulling a struggling company back to the spotlight—or will he fade like his Yahoo predecessors? The afreement "may turn out to be a clever move if it fosters the two companies' respective strength in search and display advertising," Cooper writes. More »
- Yahoo Strikes Deal With Google on Search Ads
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Jun 12, 08 8:10 PM CDT
  
  Yahoo struck a deal today with Google to display its rival's search ads, just hours after announcing the end of talks with Microsoft on a possible merger, the Wall Street Journal reports. The deal with Google, which still faces months of federal scrutiny, could bring in $800 million a year for Yahoo and have a profound effect on Internet advertising. More »
- Microsoft, Yahoo End Talks, Rule Out Merger
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Jun 12, 08 3:32 PM CDT
  
  Looks like a Microsoft-Yahoo marriage is off—for good this time, the Wall Street Journal reports. In a meeting last weekend, Microsoft representatives stated “unequivocally” that the software giant was not interested in purchasing all of Yahoo for any price. Yahoo then ruled out an alternative of selling Microsoft only its search business. More »
- Icahn: Yahoo Poison Pill 'Reprehensible'
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Jun 11, 08 9:52 AM CDT
  
  Billionaire investor Carl Icahn yesterday called Yahoo’s poison-pill severance plan, designed to deter hostile takeovers, “reprehensible,” the Wall Street Journal reports, but Yahoo said the measure would kick in if Icahn wins control of the board. "Now they found a way to entrench themselves forever," Icahn said, even as a shareholder group went to court to block the plan. More »
- Icahn Again Skewers Yahoo
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Jun 9, 08 1:18 PM CDT
  
  Investor Carl Icahn broadened his attacks on Yahoo today, targeting not only the recent failure of a Microsoft takeover deal but longtime performance issues, the Wall Street Journal reports. "Why did you permit Google to leave you in the dust?" he wrote to the board. More »
- Yahoo Chair Hits Back at Icahn
  
  newser | New York Times | Jun 5, 08 9:38 AM CDT
  
  The chairman of Yahoo's board was quick to fire back at accusations leveled by Carl Icahn yesterday, reports the New York Times . An open letter from Roy Bostock to the corporate raider said Icahn's claim that Yahoo's board had sabotaged a Microhoo deal grossly distorted the board's position, and went on to trash Icahn's "puzzling" plans for Yahoo. More »
- Icahn to Yang: I've Got Your Pink Slip
  
  newser | Wall Street Journal | Jun 4, 08 6:46 AM CDT
  
  Billionaire investor Carl Icahn wants Jerry Yang out of Yahoo's CEO seat, and has a pink slip waiting if his proxy action to take over the board is successful, reports the Wall Street Journal . Icahn yesterday unleashed a torrent of criticism of Yang’s role in the aborted Microsoft buyout deal—even as a January 2007 $40-a-share offer came to light this week—and says the software giant no longer trusts Yang. More »
- Yahoo Planned Huge Worker Walkout: Lawsuit
  
  newser | Portfolio | Jun 2, 08 9:10 PM CDT
  
  Yahoo planned to pay all 14,000 workers to quit if Microsoft bought the company in a recent takeover bid, a lawsuit unsealed today claims. The shareholder complaint blasts execs for burying Microsoft's $1.5 billion offer to workers, and rejecting a $40-per-share offer last year. Yahoo tried to stop the unsealing, which revealed internal talks and private emails, Portfolio reports. More »
May 2008
- Feds Approve Icahn's Yahoo Stock Buys
  
  newser | MarketWatch | May 30, 08 2:52 PM CDT
  
  The Federal Trade Commission gave Carl Icahn approval to purchase additional chunks of Yahoo stock, part of the activist investor's plan to gain control of the company's board and perhaps force a sale, MarketWatch reports. Icahn already owns 59 million Yahoo shares and options and is reportedly seeking 93 million more (a $2.5 billion value). More »
- Life After Gates Will Take Some Adjustment
  
  newser | MarketWatch | May 29, 08 3:05 PM CDT
  
  Microsoft and CEO Steve Ballmer are facing a scary, new post-Bill-Gates world, Therese Poletti writes on MarketWatch. On a panel at the All Things Digital conference earlier this week, Ballmer and Gates fielded questions about Microsoft’s failed Yahoo bid and unpopular Vista operating system. “Ballmer and indeed Microsoft face many challenges on the road ahead,” comments Poletti. More »
- Failed Microhoo Deal Baffling to Murdoch
  
  newser | CNET | May 29, 08 10:49 AM CDT
  
  Microsoft’s lack of experience in “buying big things” is a major reason the company didn’t seal its buyout of Yahoo, media mogul Rupert Murdoch tells CNET, who adds he was “mystified” at the lack of a deal. An alliance between Yahoo and Google—"just gushing money"—still seems possible, the News Corp. CEO said, barring a regulatory kibosh. More »
- Yahoo Suit Targets Lottery Scammers
  
  newser | PC World | May 27, 08 8:50 PM CDT
  
  Yahoo is suing a group of unidentified spammers who’ve sent emails claiming to be from the "Yahoo International Lottery Organization," soliciting personal information and sometimes money from purported lottery winners. Yahoo is seeking damages for fraudulent use of its trademarks, but it might prove hard to identify the scammers, especially if they’re located outside the US, PC World reports. More »
- Microsoft Dumps Book-Scanning
  
  newser | Associated Press | May 25, 08 8:57 AM CDT
  
  Microsoft is ending its searchable book-scanning process, leaving the task of digitizing libraries’ worth of text to Google, AP reports. The move follows Yahoo’s rejection of Microsoft’s takeover bid and suggests a new direction for the struggling online component of the world’s software king. Microsoft joined the book-scanning race in 2005, supporting a Yahoo effort. It started its own operation the following year. More »
- Yahoo Postpones Boardroom Showdown
  
  newser | Forbes | May 23, 08 9:15 AM CDT
  
  Yahoo has pushed back its annual shareholder meeting for a second time, reports Forbes , delaying a showdown for control of its board. One of Yahoo's 10 directors resigned yesterday, leaving nine up for re-election at the meeting. Carl Icahn has nominated an alternate slate of directors, including himself, and will try to push through a deal with Microsoft if victorious. More »
- Google Readies Defense of Yahoo Ad Deal
  
  newser | New York Times | May 22, 08 9:35 AM CDT
  
  An advertising deal between Google and Yahoo is certain to stir the Justice Department’s antitrust division into action, no matter what the two do to address concerns, experts anticipating a partnership between the two Internet leaders tell the New York Times . Google says a deal would simply be a supply matter, with parallels in other industries. More »

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A Google sign inside Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. is seen in this May 30, 2007 file photo. (Associated Press)

A visitor passes an exhibition stand of Google company in Duesseldorf, western Germany, in this Sept. 25, 2007 file photo. (Associated Press)

Yahoo's core value continues to slide as it struggles to redefine itself. (Getty Images)

This set of flagpoles sits at one of the entrances to Microsoft Corporation in Redmond, Wash., Monday, Oct.19, 1998. Microsoft Corp. offered Friday Feb. 1, 2008 to buy search engine operator Yahoo Inc.... (Associated Press)

Bill Gates, Chairman of Microsoft Corporation, reacts as he addresses a conference at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Thursday Jan. 24, 2008. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong) (Associated Press)

The Yahoo headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif. is seen Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2008. Microsoft Corp. offered Friday Feb. 1, 2008 to buy search engine operator Yahoo Inc. for $44.6 billion in cash and stock in... (Associated Press)

The Times Square news ticker flashes headlines above an advertisement for Yahoo on Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2008 in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) (Associated Press)

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