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| Jul.13 |
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Yahoo turns down another Microsoft offer 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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| Jul.7 |
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M-soft wants to negotiate with new board Microsoft threw its weight behind investor Icahn's effort to oust Yahoo board next month
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| Jul.2 |
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Microsoft Exploring Partnership For Yahoo WSJ: Microsoft has talked to other media companies about teaming up to buy Yahoo's search business
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| Jun.30 |
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Defense against Icahn taken to investors Yahoo began pressing a case to major shareholders that its board prove they made the right move when they rejected an offer from Microsoft
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| Jun.2 |
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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
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| May.22 |
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Yahoo postpones meeting, battle Icahn Yahoo postponed a looming showdown for control of its board, giving itself more time to prepare a defense or negotiate a sale to Microsoft
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| May.18 |
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Microsoft gives Yahoo bid another go| Microsoft has made a new, downsized offer to cooperate with the Web portal while leaving the door open to a merger down the road | |
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| May.3 |
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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 share. Yahoo had insisted on at least $53bn - more than Microsoft was prepared to pay. Yahoo chairman Roy Bostock dismissed the unsolicited bid as a distraction
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| May.2 |
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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...
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| Apr.26 |
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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
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| Apr.24 |
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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...
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| Apr.7 |
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Yahoo not opposed to deal with Microsoft Yahoo, under pressure of a three-week deadlineto accept its $41 billion bid, said it doesn't oppose a deal but wants a better offer
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| Apr.5 |
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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
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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...
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| Mar.15 |
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Yahoo, Microsoft hold informal talks Microsoft Corp. executives met with their counterparts to lobby for a friendly merger
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| Mar.5 |
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Board meeting postponed to stave off bid Yahoo has extended the deadline for nominating members to its board, a move that delays Microsoft from trying a hostile takeover
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| Feb.28 |
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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...
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| Feb.19 |
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Gates: Microsoft Isn't Raising Yahoo Bid
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| Feb.13 |
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Yahoo in talks with News Corp. Yahoo Inc. is in talks with the owner of MySpace social networking site about cooperating on a variety of fronts to fend off Microsoft
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| Feb.12 |
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Microsoft hints at hostile takeover
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| Feb.11 |
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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 | |
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| Feb.9 |
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Yahoo Will Reject Microsoft
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| Feb.5 |
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Yahoo running out of options
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| Feb.4 |
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Microsoft urges to accept bid quickly
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| Feb.3 |
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Critics Question Potential Microsoft-Y Merger
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| Feb.1 |
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Microsoft makes unsolicited $44.6b bid| 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 of... | |
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| Sep.4 |
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Yahoo to buy ad network BlueLithium
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| May.4 |
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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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| May.25 |
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Yahoo, eBay to join forces in partnership Internet powerhouses are thwarting the expansions of online search engine leader Google and Microsoft
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| May.4 |
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Microsoft considers to buy stake in Yahoo
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| Aug.11 |
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Yahoo invests $1 billion in China's Alibaba
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| Sep.14 |
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Yahoo buys jukebox provider Musicmatch
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| Mar.26 |
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Yahoo to Buy Web Commerce Site Kelkoo
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| Jul.14 |
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Yahoo buying Overture in $1.6 billion deal
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| Dec.23 |
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Yahoo Buys Inktomi Yahoo announced a $235 million deal to acquire Internet search-software maker. Inktomi soared 43 cents, or 37%
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| Mar.15 |
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Yahoo considering eBay purchase
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