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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. TAGS: aQuantive Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Steve Ballmer, shareholder, Microsoft Corp., acquisition, Google Inc.

Week in review: Heat returns to Yahoo

June 27, 2008 Billionaire activist investor wants to show the door to Yahoo's CEO, while Bill Gates walks away from day-to-day work at Microsoft. Also: A Facebook face-off. TAGS: Bill Gates, Yahoo! Inc., Jerry Yang, Week in review, shareholder, chairman, CEO, Microsoft Corp., acquisition, president

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. TAGS: Facebook, Yahoo! Inc., Yahoo Search, Week in review, Google Inc., acquisition, asset, Internet search, Microsoft Corp.

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) TAGS: Yahoo! Inc., News Corp., Week in review, reader, RSA Security Inc., acquisition, head, America Online Inc., Microsoft Corp., security, Google Inc.

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. TAGS: DoubleClick Inc., Bebo, merger, Yahoo! Inc., America Online Inc., virtual machine, bid, acquisition, Week in review, online advertising, Google Inc., game company, antitrust, Electronic Arts Inc., Microsoft Corp., U.S.

Feeling the heat at Microsoft

February 28, 2008 Antitrust woes, a protracted battle for Yahoo, and a shifting software market. Welcome to Steve Ballmer's world. TAGS: Steve Ballmer, virtualization, compliance, heat, VMware, European Union, antitrust, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Windows Server, acquisition, Apple Computer, Microsoft Corp., Linux, Microsoft Windows

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. TAGS: Jerry Yang, Yahoo! Inc., Terry Semel, Bill Gates, shareholder, CEO, acquisition, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.

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? TAGS: mashup, Yahoo! Inc., merger, commentary, pro, Forrester Research Inc., audience, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Firefox, acquisition, Microsoft Windows

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. TAGS: earnings, traffic acquisition cost, Google Inc., Internet search advertising, income, expectation, Yahoo! Inc., Wall Street, acquisition, U.S., Microsoft Corp.

Yahoo buys e-mail search company

October 22, 2004 Technology lets people search message text and attachments, possibly a move to rival efforts by Google, Microsoft. TAGS: Yahoo! Inc., search engine company, desktop search, e-mail, acquisition, Google Inc., California, Microsoft Corp.

Yahoo acquires Oddpost to bolster e-mail

July 12, 2004 Massive portal buys small vendor that sells low-priced Web mail accounts and news aggregation services. TAGS: Yahoo! Inc., acquisition, Yahoo! Mail, portal, Gmail, e-mail, member, Microsoft Corp.

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. TAGS: DoubleClick Inc., Eric Schmidt, Google Inc., banner advertisement, Internet search advertising, advertiser, acquisition, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp.

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. TAGS: YouTube, online video, video search, Google Inc., video service, Yahoo! Inc., MSN, spokeswoman, acquisition, video, Microsoft Corp.

Keeping up with the (Dow) Joneses

May 7, 2007 Rumblings of a Microsoft-Yahoo deal may not have panned out, but in the merger world, the pursuers and pursued are still out in force. TAGS: Dow Chemical Co., takeover, Internet portal, merger, Larry Ellison, acquisition, media, theory, Yahoo! Inc., America Online Inc., CEO, Microsoft Corp.

Yahoo meets estimates; revenue soars

January 15, 2004 The Web portal posts a net profit of $75 million, marking the first quarter in which it included results from its $1.6 billion acquisition of Overture. TAGS: traffic acquisition cost, Overture Services Inc., depreciation, amortization, Yahoo! Inc., Web portal, net profit, Thomson First Call, Wall Street, income, portal, acquisition, Microsoft Corp.

Yahoo's long and winding music road

September 14, 2004 Firm's $160 million buyout of Musicmatch is another signpost in Yahoo's circuitous efforts to becoming an online music giant. TAGS: MusicMatch, Yahoo Launch, Yahoo! Inc., digital music, music company, online music, Apple Computer, online music company, America Online Inc., acquisition, Apple iTunes, radio, Microsoft Corp.

Yahoo composing music download plan

February 3, 2004 As archrivals Microsoft and AOL place bigger bets on digital song sales, Yahoo is considering plans to do the same. TAGS: music download, BuyMusic, Yahoo! Inc., Roxio, Napster Inc., streaming audio, MusicMatch, America Online Inc., Apple Computer, spokeswoman, music player, Apple iTunes, acquisition, Microsoft Corp., video

Patents raise stakes in search wars

February 26, 2004 The dispute between Yahoo and Google over keyword auction method offers an early sign of the intellectual property struggles to come in one of the Web's hottest markets. TAGS: patent, Overture Services Inc., intellectual property, Yahoo! Inc., AltaVista Co., Internet search advertising, Internet search, Google Inc., R&D, sign, attorney, search engine, acquisition, Microsoft Corp.

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. TAGS: IAC/InterActive Corp., Ask Jeeves Inc., buyout, Expedia Inc., Ask.com, acquisition, sector, Yahoo! Inc., MSN, search engine, Google Inc., blog, CEO, Microsoft Corp.

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. TAGS: personalized search, desktop search, online advertising, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., winner, Wall Street, search engine, Internet search, digital video, America Online Inc., acquisition, e-mail, Microsoft Corp.