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Yahoo, Google announce online ad alliance

Sources: 13 Jun 2008, 0413 hrs IST, AFP SAN FRANCISCO: Fresh from a failed courtship with Microsoft, Yahoo on Thursday rushed into Google’s arms in the hope an alliance will improve its sagging fortunes and quell a rebellion by stockholders. Yahoo and Google announced a deal to put the Internet search king’s expertise to work[…]
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Yahoo may reject latest MS bid

WASHINGTON: US Internet company Yahoo on Monday rejected software giant Microsoft’s three-week ultimatum to accept its takeover offer. Yahoo is responding to a three-week deadline issued by Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer in a letter to Yahoo on Saturday for Yahoo to agree to Microsoft’s $31 a share cash-and-stock offer or risk seeing the bid[…]
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Yahoo agrees on Microsoft’s Bid of 44.6 Billion USD

After much internal debate and industry speculation, Yahoo today agreed to be acquired by Microsoft, adding $2.6 billion to Redmond’s original offer of $44.6 billion on Jan. 31 The agreement was reached near midnight last night, thus closing a contentious quarter for the Web company, one rife with in-fighting and power jockeying since Microsoft’s initial[…]
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Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo for USD 44.6 billion

NEW YORK: Technology giant Microsoft Corp said on Friday that it had offered to acquire Internet media company Yahoo Inc for USD 44.6 billion in cash and stock. Microsoft said it had offered to buy Yahoo for USD 31 per share, which it said represented a 62 per cent premium above the company’s closing stock price on Nasdaq on Thursday. “We have great respect for Yahoo, and together we can offer an increasingly exciting set of solutions for consumers, publishers and advertisers while becoming better positioned to compete in the online services market,” Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said in a statement. Yahoo was not immediately available for comment. Microsoft said it had identified four areas that would generate at least USD 1 billion in annual synergies for the combined entity. Yahoo shares rose 56 per cent to $29.95 in pre-market trading on Friday following the announcement. US stock index futures also jumped after the news was released.