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By: Microsoft’s Ballmer sneezes. Yahoo has tissues. Stock soars. » VentureBeat

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:31:46 +0000

[...] company that first made a $44.6 billion, $31-a-share offer to Yahoo at the beginning of this year, only to have it and other slightly better offers spurned by Yahoo, may still have at least some interest in the [...]

By: Microsoft fails to buy Yahoo, so it buys…some European comparison shopping sites? » VentureBeat

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:24:22 +0000

[...] marks Microsoft’s biggest purchase since its attempt to buy Internet giant Yahoo fell apart a few months ago. It also purchased the semantic search startup Powerset for around $100 million [...]

By: SEO Staff

SEO Staff — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 02:59:13 +0000

hmmm.. Seems like Microsoft is planning for another takeover! Glad that’s over, or my yahoomail ends up w/ lots of circumstances like paying monthly bills due to unknown reasons. Microsoft loves to post unknown payments due to its licensing agreement. Duh

By: Google buries Digg deal. Marked as a dupe or just lame? » VentureBeat

Google buries Digg deal. Marked as a dupe or just lame? » VentureBeat — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 20:24:49 +0000

[...] the advertising sphere, most recently when Microsoft failed to buy Yahoo’s search business (and the company itself) and Google stepped in with its own search advertising deal with Yahoo. Previously, the two had [...]

By: Microsoft takes control of Facebook search, expands ad deal » VentureBeat

Microsoft takes control of Facebook search, expands ad deal » VentureBeat — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:01:15 +0000

[...] flew that Microsoft would try to expand its deal with Facebook when its attempt to buy Yahoo fell apart. There was even talk of Microsoft gauging the social network’s interest in buying the entire [...]

By: Microsoft/Yahoo dealings go from mostly dead to all dead. » VentureBeat

Microsoft/Yahoo dealings go from mostly dead to all dead. » VentureBeat — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:29:09 +0000

[...] you thought that the Yahoo/Microsoft deal was dead a while ago, when Microsoft walked away after failing to convince Yahoo to accept its takeover offer. But as Miracle Max taught us in The [...]

By: Roundup: A longtime Yahoo employee leaves, speculation that Loopt beat out Whrrl for WWDC keynote position and more » VentureBeat

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:36:26 +0000

[...] In his blog post on the topic, Zawodny points out that his departure is completely unrelated to the failed Microsoft takeover and now the Carl Icahn takeover bid. He follows other old-school Yahoo employees such as Bradley [...]

By: Icahn haz Jerry Yang’s job? » VentureBeat

Icahn haz Jerry Yang’s job? » VentureBeat — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:04:27 +0000

[...] current board dropped the ball with regards to Microsoft’s proposed buyout of the company, which fizzled last month. Icahn also believes Yang and the board never had any intention of accepting a Microsoft offer, and [...]

By: Roundup: Microsoft offered $40-a-share for Yahoo in 2007, Time Warner tries to take the Internet back to the 1990s and more » VentureBeat

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 07:57:05 +0000

[...] higher than the $31-a-share Microsoft publicly offered during its latest acquisition attempt, which fizzled even after Microsoft was willing to raise the bid as high as [...]

By: Icahn gets FTC approval to buy massive amounts of Yahoo stock » VentureBeat

Icahn gets FTC approval to buy massive amounts of Yahoo stock » VentureBeat — Fri, 30 May 2008 19:24:04 +0000

[...] discussed Microsoft’s new desire to buy just Yahoo’s search business. This follows the failure by both sides to get a deal done that would have merged the two companies [...]

By: Ballmer’s bad month comes to a head — as eggs fly at his head » VentureBeat

Mon, 19 May 2008 23:40:33 +0000

[...] he walked away from his $45 billion deal to buy Yahoo when it became clear that the two sides would not be able to reach an amicable agreement — [...]

By: Microsoft to Yahoo: We’ll take what we can get — or we’ll back Icahn » VentureBeat

Sun, 18 May 2008 23:02:27 +0000

[...] that didn’t take long. Barely two weeks after walking away from its proposed deal to buy Yahoo, Microsoft released a statement today that the two sides were back at the negotiating table [...]

By: Yahoo responds to Icahn’s short story with War & Peace » VentureBeat

Fri, 16 May 2008 01:35:24 +0000

[...] to Bostock, it was Microsoft, and not Yahoo in the end who was unwilling to compromise. As such, Microsoft walked away. Bostock contends what while Icahn asserts Yahoo’s board is incompetent, the board was very [...]

By: Icahn haz Yahoo? A true shark moves in… » VentureBeat

Icahn haz Yahoo? A true shark moves in… » VentureBeat — Thu, 15 May 2008 18:17:34 +0000

[...] bit off Yahoo’s arm. It was messy, didn’t look good, but Yahoo was able to kick Microsoft in the nose and swim away. However, now there is blood in the water — a lot of it. And here comes a more aggressive [...]