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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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  • November 2007

    • Google Keeps Growing, Stock Keeps Rising

      Reuters  |  Nov 22, 07 1:10 PM CST

      Google Keeps Growing, Stock Keeps Rising

      (Newser) - Google is already the US most popular search engine, but new data indicate it enjoyed a substantial jump in traffic this past month. Reuters reports that the search giant accounted for 58.5% of the American market. Google is trailed by Yahoo, Microsoft, IAC (the owners of Ask.com), and Time Warner (owner of AOL) for shares of the search market—and all four of those challengers saw their traffic flatline or drop. More »

    • Google's Build, Don't Buy Ethos

      CNET  |  Nov 19, 07 5:30 PM CST

      Google's Build, Don't Buy Ethos

      (Newser) - Is Google moving in the direction of writing its own platform software and building its own hardware? That's what Gordon Haff argues on CNET's The Pervasive Datacenter blog, citing recent news about Google designing its own network switches and writing its own virtual machine for its cellphone platform, on top of its longstanding practice of assembling its own servers from component parts. More »

    • Microsoft to Buy Yahoo: Blogger

      PC World  |  Nov 18, 07 1:24 PM CST

      Microsoft to Buy Yahoo: Blogger

      (Newser) - Microsoft wants to buy Yahoo, blogs Huffington Post’s Henry Blodget—there’s no other way to interpret comments made by a honcho Thursday that the Bill Gates brand plans to up its online search market share from its current 10% to 30%. Do the math, says Blodget: Acquiring Yahoo’s 19% share would “instantly” put Microsoft at about 30% (Google boasts 67%). More »

    • Yahoo Settles With Chinese Journalists

      CNET  |  Nov 13, 07 5:25 PM CST

      Yahoo Settles With Chinese Journalists

      (Newser) - One week after being labeled moral “pygmies” in a House hearing, Yahoo settled a lawsuit  brought by two Chinese journalists jailed when the Internet giant turned over their personal data to Beijing. The two men, now serving 10-year sentences on charges of leaking state secrets, sued Yahoo for providing the Chinese government with their emails and addresses. Terms of the settlement were not disclosed. More »

    • Microsoft Offers 'Cool Prizes' to Search Users

      MarketWatch  |  Nov 8, 07 9:54 PM CST

      Microsoft Offers 'Cool Prizes' to Search Users

      (Newser) - Google this or Google that, the website that’s also a verb dominates the search engine market, but Microsoft is trying to increase its foothold in the search market with its “Live Search Trial Program”—which rewards users every time they use the MS engine. MarketWatch reports 4,000 participants will earn tickets each time they search, which can then be turned in for t-shirts or video games. More »

  • October 2007

    • Yahoo Marketing Chief Resigns

      CNET  |  Oct 20, 07 1:24 PM CDT

      Yahoo Marketing Chief Resigns

      (Newser) - Yahoo's Chief Marketing Officer is moving on to greener pastures, as Cammie Dunaway will leave the company at the end of the month, News.com reports. Dunaway, named one of the top 100 marketers by Advertising Age, is the latest in a string of executive departures since founder Jerry Yang took over CEO duties following the ouster of Terry Semel. 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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U.S. computer firm, the leading developer of personal-computer software systems and applications. Microsoft, headquartered in Redmond, Wash., also publishes books and multimedia titles and manufactures hardware. It was founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul G. Allen (b. 1954), who adapted BASIC ...

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