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AT&T is set to begin featuring Yahoo Inc search services on the Internet menu of mobile handsets used by its base of up to 70 million U.S. customers. SAN FRANCISCO–AT&T is set to begin featuring Yahoo Inc search services on the Internet menu of mobile handsets used by its…
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Yahoo is unlikely to get into a bidding war over AOL with Microsoft because Yahoo could instead renew talks over News Corp’s Web properties. NEW YORK–Yahoo is unlikely to get into a bidding war over AOL with Microsoft because if Microsoft gets in the way, Yahoo could instead renew…
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Sources said a deal with Yahoo would likely involve merging AOL–with Time Warner keeping a share, and a deal with Microsoft would have Redmond completely taking over AOL. NEW YORK–Time Warner’s discussions to merge or sell its AOL Internet division with Microsoft or Yahoo have taken on new…
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News Corp’s Rupert Murdoch said it was “very unlikely” his company would be involved in any Yahoo transaction and said Yahoo and Microsoft would not end up with any deal. SUN VALLEY, IDAHO–News Corp’s Rupert Murdoch said it was “very unlikely” his company would be involved in any Yahoo…
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Yahoo said it would offer its users hundreds of popular casual online games as free downloads backed by revenue from advertising integrated into the games. NEW YORK–Yahoo said on Thursday it would offer its users hundreds of popular casual online games as free downloads backed by revenue from advertising…
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During his last day as a full-time Microsoft employee, Microsoft’s Bill Gates told Tom Brokaw he does not think a deal with Yahoo was likely. NEW YORK–Microsoft’s Bill Gates told journalist Tom Brokaw he does not think a deal with Yahoo was likely, CNBC reported on Friday. …
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Yahoo unveiled its fourth reorganization in the past 18 months. Yahoo hopes its three new divisions will centralize its Internet products–all will report to Yahoo President Susan Decker. San Francisco–Yahoo unveiled on Thursday its fourth reorganization in the past 18 months as the embattled company seeks to focus on…
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Reuters followed a TechCrunch report that Microsoft was resuming talks with Yahoo with a CNBC report that there’s no deal on the table. Update: CNBC says no deal “whatsoever” on the table between Yahoo Inc and Microsoft Corp, citing unnamed sources. NEW YORK–Microsoft Corp…
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Let the name rush begin. Thursday at noon PT, users will be able to select new, simpler e-mail addresses ending in ymail.com and rocketmail.com. SEATTLE–Yahoo Inc said it introduced two new e-mail domains on Wednesday, allowing users to select new, simpler e-mail addresses ending in ymail.com and rocketmail.com. …
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Court order lets Homeland Security obtain precise location data from T-Mobile about customer’s movements in real time. Police Blotter is a weekly News.com report on the intersection of technology and the law. What: Minnesota man charged with alien smuggling says data from a location tap of…
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Tuesday’s introduction of new versions of Web-based e-mail programs that compete with Outlook offer yet another clue why Microsoft made the bid for Yahoo. Business software units of Yahoo and Google are introducing beefed-up versions of their Web-based software that compete with Microsoft Outlook, offering yet another clue…
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Software giant says it may borrow money for the first time in its history to fund a portion of its unsolicited offer for Yahoo. Microsoft said Monday it may borrow money for the first time in its history to fund a portion of its $44.6 billion unsolicited…
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While some employees see Microsoft’s bid as a positive development, they worry a merger would cool Yahoo’s free-spirited atmosphere. Will Yahoos’ yodels be silenced? Yahoo employees fretted on Friday that their fun-loving culture, summed up by early company ads featuring a cowboy yodel, could get quashed by…
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To pull this off, Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer will need to throw one hell of a hail mary pass, says CNET News.com’s Charles Cooper. I found the perfect description to sum up the idea of a Microsoft-Yahoo combination, but CNET News.com’s managing editor threatened to knock my lights out…
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To pull this off, Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer will need to throw one hell of a hail mary pass, says CNET News.com’s Charles Cooper. I found the perfect description to sum up the idea of a Microsoft-Yahoo combination, but CNET News.com’s managing editor threatened to knock my lights out…
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Microsoft offers to buy struggling Yahoo for $44.6 billion to better compete against Google. Also: Vista’s one-year anniversary. The fight for Internet dominance heated up this week with Microsoft offering to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion in an effort to better compete with chief rival Google. “Today,…
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Microsoft faces financial and legal hurdles in its unsolicited bid for Yahoo. CNET News.com walks you through the potential steps. Microsoft faces several financial and legal hurdles on its way to wooing Yahoo to accept its $44.6 billion buyout bid. Here’s a brief FAQ explaining some of…
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Offer amounts to $31 per share, which Microsoft said represented a 62 percent premium above the company’s closing stock price. Microsoft on Friday said it had offered to acquire Yahoo in a proposed cash and stock deal valued at $44.6 billion. Microsoft said it had offered to…
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Offer–described by Yahoo as “unsolicited”–amounts to $31 per share, or a 62 percent premium above its closing stock price Thursday. Microsoft went public Friday with a $44.6 billion cash-and-stock bid to acquire Yahoo. In its response, Yahoo called the Microsoft bid “unsolicited” but did not reject it….
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Investors are set to focus on company outlooks and how a slowing U.S. economy will lead to ad cutbacks, less online shopping. Big Internet stocks have fallen 25 percent to 40 percent in the last quarter and haven’t looked cheaper in years. But despite expected strong year-end…
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