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Yahoo Again Spurns a Microsoft Offer
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Yahoo said Saturday night that it had rejected a renewed proposal by Microsoft, together with the activist investor Carl C. Icahn, to buy the Internet company's search business. (article 2)
The proposal, made Friday evening by Mr. Icahn and Microsoft's chief executive , Steven A. Ballmer, was similar to a previous offer Yahoo had rejected. (article 2)
Yahoo's decision is another broadside between the company and Microsoft, two months after the software giant withdrew its $47.5 billion takeover offer. (article 2)
This time, Mr. Icahn, who is waging a campaign to unseat Yahoo's board, would have taken over the remaining parts of the company. (article 2)
Yahoo, in turn, will sell ads on those new search engines; if some grab even small slivers of the search market, Yahoo will share in their success. (article 4)
Hoping to seize on growing shareholder dissatisfaction, Carl C. Icahn is trying to wrest control of the company from Yahoo's board and management team. (article 4)
Yahoo will try to unleash the pent-up innovation Thursday with a new service called Build Your Own Search, or BOSS, that will share the Sunnyvale-based company's technology with third parties. (article 3)
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Google, Search, Microsoft, company, advertising |
Source articles
- Independent Yahoo is better for business: Google (Washington Post, 07/10/2008, 328 words)
- Yahoo Again Spurns a Microsoft Offer (nytimes.com, 07/13/2008, 309 words)
- Yahoo opens search toolkit in quest for more ads (cbc.ca, 07/10/2008, 415 words)
- Yahoo Is Inviting Partners to Build on Its Search Technology (nytimes.com, 07/10/2008, 691 words)
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