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Microsoft bids $44.6 billion for Yahoo
February 1, 2008
Offer--described by Yahoo as "unsolicited"--amounts to $31 per share, or a 62 percent premium above its closing stock price Thursday.
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Commentary: Pros and cons of a Microsoft-Yahoo mashup
May 4, 2007
Reports of a potential merger are intriguing, says Forrester's Charlene Li, but could the giants really get along as one?
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Google Inc.
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Yahoo's Jerry Yang is no Bill Gates
February 16, 2008
CNET News.com's Charles Cooper says loyalists who want to give Yahoo's CEO one more chance are living in the past.
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Google buys ad firm DoubleClick for $3.1 billion
April 14, 2007
Deal boosts the search giant's banner advertising business, which lagged rival Yahoo's.
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Week in review: Microsoft seeks for search gains
May 23, 2008
Company gets creative in quest for larger search market slice, while Facebook tries to make nice with Google. Also: Soft cell market.
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Wall Street pouts after Google earnings
July 19, 2007
Despite sales and earnings climb, the numbers fall short of analyst expectations. Stock pounded in after hours trading.
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Five steps to a Yahoo turnaround
June 20, 2007
Social media, video, efficiency and someone calling the shots on technology should be on the top of the to-do list for new CEO Jerry Yang.Photos: Boomerang bosses
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eBay to buy Shopping.com for $620 million
June 1, 2005
Auction giant says the deal will enhance its service with comparison shopping capabilities.
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Still no cure for what ails Yahoo
July 18, 2007
Executives offer promises but no real plan to turn company around in the face of search titan Google.
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Yahoo goes punk with a Zen twist
October 17, 2006
newsmaker Product strategist Bradley Horowitz is on a mission: Help Yahoo "break its own rules for its own good."
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Commentary: eBay's scary Skype purchase
September 13, 2005
Skype and its voice services give the auction giant no sustainable advantage in communications or communities.
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IM
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Yahoo! Inc.
With YouTube, Google puts its competitors in a jam
October 10, 2006
Build off what they have, or buy a second-tier site? For Microsoft and Yahoo, there's no easy way to make the Internet video market a horse race.
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InterActiveCorp buys Ask Jeeves for $1.85 billion
March 21, 2005
Barry Diller's Net company expands its horizons at a time of frantic activity in the search sector.
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Video site buying spree in the offing?
October 10, 2006
Some observers wonder if more deals will follow Google's acquisition of YouTube.
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Yahoo! Inc.
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Sony Corp.
Week in review: Tech's shopping spree
March 14, 2008
Big companies go on the hunt for acquisitions to beef up their positions, while developers get many warm welcomes. Also: Unruly at South by Southwest.
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Electronic Arts Inc.
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U.S.
Week in review: Microhoo, Yahoogle, and Microspace, oh my!
April 11, 2008
The week was marked by a dizzying barrage of news on the future of Yahoo and its suitors, leaving industry watchers mostly scratching their heads. Also, RSA 2008.(By CNET News.com's Michelle Meyers)
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Microsoft Corp.
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Google Inc.
Year in review: Searching for a winner
December 17, 2004
Google went public; Yahoo perfected its own search; and Microsoft said, "Don't count me out!" Then there were all those me-toos.
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Internet deals of the damned
October 10, 2006
More often than not, big Internet acquisitions turn out to be disappointments, or at least a bit ahead of their time.
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Tech executives: Time is of the essence
December 7, 2005
Executives from Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, IBM and other companies gather to talk about the next killer app: calendaring.
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Analysts mixed on eBay's purchase of Skype
September 12, 2005
Some industry observers praise a "strategically positive" move. Others say entering the nascent Net calling market is risky.
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