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M-soft wants to negotiate with new board  Yahoo: Microsoft threw its weight behind investor Icahn's effort to oust Yahoo board next month Microsoft Exploring Partnership For Yahoo  WSJ: Microsoft has talked to other media companies about teaming up to buy Yahoo's search business Documents show Yahoo-Microsoft saga  Yahoo CEO Yang pushed for an employee severance program that made it more expensive for Microsoft to engineer a takeover Microsoft gives Yahoo bid another go
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Yahoo-Microsoft talks denied  An article appeared in the Times of London stating that Microsoft has restarted talks to buy Yahoo's search business for $20 billion Microsoft: No interest in buying Yahoo  Yahoo shares dived nearly 13% after CEO of Microsoft said the software giant is not interested in renewing its bid Yahoo turns down another Microsoft offer

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  Yahoo rejected an offer to sell its Internet search business to Microsoft. and leave the remainder of the company in control of Carl Icahn
 The complex deal would have meant a major dismantling of Yahoo; the sale of its coveted search engine; the spin-off of its Asian assets and the ouster of its top management, including CEO Yang

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  Microsoft has made a new, downsized offer to cooperate with the Web portal while leaving the door open to a merger down the road
May.3 Microsoft walks away from Yahoo
  Microsoft has dropped its 3-month-old bid to buy internet firm because the two sides cannot agree on an acceptable sale price.    CEO Steve Ballmer withdrew the offer in a letter to Yahoo chief executive Jerry Yang. Microsoft had raised its offer from $44.6bn to $47.5bn - $33 per shar...
May.2 Microsoft sweetened bid for Yahoo  Microsoft has sweetened its $44.6 billion bid by several billion dollars, intensifying negotiations and bringing the proposed deal closer to... Apr.26 Yahoo mum as Microsoft's deadline passes  Yahoo Inc. is setting the stage for the next chapter in the three-month standoff of technology titan Apr.24 Microsoft Won't Increase Bid For Yahoo  Hoping to prod Yahoo to accept its takeover bid, Microsoft said that it has no plans to increase its offer and criticized the portal for dragging... Apr.5 Microsoft gives Yahoo deadline for deal  The ultimatum, revealed in a letter from CEO Steve Ballmer to Yahoo's board, underscores impatience with the two-month merger saga Microsoft May Cut Yahoo Bid  Microsoft Corp. is rethinking its bid in light of the tumbling economy as a warning to the Yahoo's board to quickly accept the takeover prop... Mar.15 Yahoo, Microsoft hold informal talks  Microsoft Corp. executives met with their counterparts to lobby for a friendly merger Mar.14 Microsoft to Buy Rapt  San Francisco: Microsoft Corp. plans to buy Rapt Inc., a web ad analysis company Mar.5 Board meeting postponed to stave off bid  Yahoo: Yahoo has extended the deadline for nominating members to its board, a move that delays Microsoft from trying a hostile takeover Feb.28 Yahoo calls Microsoft bid a distraction  Yahoo executives have been distracted in the wake of unsolicited acquisition offer and raised the possibility of advertisers fleeing amid the... Feb.19 Gates: Microsoft Isn't Raising Yahoo Bid  Bill Gates: Microsoft is not privately haggling with Yahoo over the software maker's rejected $31-per-share buyout offer Feb.12 Microsoft hints at hostile takeover  Yahoo: Microsoft fired back at Yahoo for formally rejecting its $44.6 billion offer, calling the decision unfortunate while vowing to plow ahead Feb.11 Yahoo officially rejects Microsoft's takeover
  Yahoo Inc.'s board is saying that it 'substantially undervalues' the Web portal, but at the same time, left the door open for a counter offer
Feb.9 Yahoo Will Reject Microsoft Feb.4 Microsoft urges to accept bid quickly. Yahoo Feb.3 Critics Question Potential Microsoft-Y Merger. Yahoo Microsoft makes unsolicited $44.6b bid
  Yahoo: Microsoft has made an aggressive bid to buy struggling behemoth, in hopes that the combined forces would create a formidable competitor Google
 The offer leaves the decision in the hands of Yahoo's board. In making the unsolicited public acquisition offer, MS is hoping to force Yahoo's investors to support the deal as they bemoan a slumping share price. The surprise offer of $31 per share seizes on Yahoo's weakness while Microsoft tries to muscle up in a high-stakes battle with Google likely to define the technology for years to come. Yahoo said it will 'carefully and promptly' study the bid

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Oct.24 Microsoft Puts $240M In Facebook  Palo Alto: Rapidly rising Internet star has sold a 1.6% stake to Microsoft, spurning a competing offer from online search leader Google May.4 Reports: Microsoft Pursuing Yahoo  Microsoft is resuming its pursuit of search engine operator that could help it better compete with search leader Google. Yahoo shares surged 18%

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