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Microsoft seeks help to snap up Yahoo s search business: related news
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Microsoft dropped bid for all of Yahoo! on 8 June and launched a bid of USD 1 billion for Yahoo!'s search business and a share of future search advertising revenue. This proposal also included an USD billion investment in Yahoo! but required Yahoo! to commit to a 10-year exclusive arrangement, according to a letter sent to Yahoo! stockholders by CEO Jerry Yang and Chairman Roy Bostock. The letter explains the reasons for Yahoo! to sign a four year non-exclusive deal with Google for online advertising services and to end the talks with Microsoft, as their search-only hybrid proposal may have been helpful to Microsoft. The board and its advisers also carefully studied the financial impact of Microsoft's proposal and concluded that it would have provided no meaningful improvement to the operating cash flow.
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via Telecom.paper @ 6:07 28th Jun
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TEL AVIV (MarketWatch) -- Yahoo Inc. said late on Saturday that it rejected a restructuring proposal from Microsoft Corp. and the investor Carl Icahn, and the Sunnyvale, Calif., Internet-services giant called on Microsoft to bid for the whole company. Yahoo said the Microsoft-Icahn plan, which it said would turn Yahoo's search business over to the Redmond, Wash., software giant and the rest over to the New York investor, was presented as a take-it-or-leave it proposition. "This odd and opportunistic alliance of Microsoft and Carl Icahn has anything but the interests of Yahoo's stockholders in mind," Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock said in a statement. Yahoo said that while it rejected the restructuring, it offered two alternatives: "It repeated its offer to sell the entire company to Microsoft for at least" $33 a share, and it "offered to nego
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via MarketWatch @ 7:21 13th Jul
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Microsoft lost Internet search users in the United States to Google and former takeover target Yahoo last month, research firm ComScore said. Microsoft, the world's biggest software maker, handled 8.5 percent of queries in May, down from 9.1 percent the month before, Reston, Va.-based ComScore said Thursday in a statement. Google extended its lead to 61.8 percent, and Yahoo grew to 20.6 percent, ComScore said. The companies are vying for a bigger piece of the $41 billion online advertising market. Microsoft's talks to buy Yahoo's search business for $1 billion ended last week, around the time Yahoo struck a deal to show some Google ads on its search pages. Microsoft's proposal would have included an $8 billion investment in Yahoo. Google handled 61.
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via The Mercury News @ 15:07 20th Jun
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San Francisco: Unable to strike a deal on its own, Microsoft Corp reportedly is hoping to snap up Yahoo's online search operations with the help of News Corp and Time Warner Inc.
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via Gulf News @ 7:50 4th Jul
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Yahoo! has introduced a new open Web services platform, Yahoo! Search BOSS (Build Your Own Search Service), which gives third parties access to Yahoo! Search Technology, including the ability to re-rank and control the presentation of Web search results, the company announced. Yahoo! Search BOSS, available now as an API in beta, enables developers and companies to build world-class custom search experiences and disrupt the search industry, the company said.
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via Midrange Computing @ 6:41 12th Jul
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Last night Yahoo rejected another offer for its search business from Microsoft and investor Carl Icahn. The proposal also included conditions that would have required the replacement of Yahoo's top management and board of directors. This is not the first time Icahn has pushed for such a measure. Quoting: "Yahoo said in rejecting the offer it told Microsoft it was willing to sell the entire company for at least $33 a share and its board believed such a deal could be negotiated and executed before its annual shareholders meeting on August 1. Yahoo said it also informed the software giant it remained willing to negotiate an 'improved search only transaction.' Microsoft, however, rejected both offers, Yahoo stated."
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via Slashdot @ 8:16 14th Jul
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Yahoo rejected another offer for acquisition of its search business. This time it was a joint proposal from Microsoft Corporation and investor Carl Icahn to acquire Yahoo’s search business in return for cash, a partial stock buyout and revenue guarantees. There was also an addition requirement for the complete replacement of the Yahoo board and executive management team. Yahoo was urged to respond within 24 hours and it was made clear that negotiations were not acceptable.
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via Promotion World @ 21:34 14th Jul
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SUNNYVALE, Calif., BUSINESS WIRE -- Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, confirmed today that it has rejected a joint proposal from Microsoft Corporation and Carl Icahn for a complex restructuring of Yahoo! that would include the acquisition of Yahoo!'s search business by Microsoft. The proposal was made on Friday evening and Yahoo! was given less than 24 hours to accept the proposal, the fundamental .....
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via Tutorial Finder @ 10:16 13th Jul
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ruphus13 and other readers alerted us to Yahoo's BOSS, Build your Own Search Service. It gives access to Yahoo's entire databases for Web, image, and news search with no cap on queries per day and no restrictions on mixing Yahoo's search results with others or re-sorting them, and without Yahoo branding visible. From their blog announcement: "As anyone who follows the search industry knows, the barriers to successfully building a high quality, web-scale search engine are incredibly high. Doing so requires hundreds of millions of dollars of investment in engineering, sciences and core infrastructure — from crawling and indexing technology to relevancy and machine learning algorithms, to stuff as mundane as data centers, servers and power. Because competing successfully in web search requires an investment of this scale, new players have
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via Slashdot @ 13:45 11th Jul
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via Infolink @ 12:45 5th Aug
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Yahoo has rejected yet another bid to buy its search operations, this time a combined, take-it-or-leave-it offer from Microsoft and activist investor Carl Icahn. The embattled Internet pioneer said the new bid contained no guarantees that it would be superior to the Google search ad deal signed in early June. And Yahoo repeated its willingness to sell the whole company to Microsoft for the software giant’s last offer of $33 a share, which Microsoft withdrew two months ago and said it doesn’t plan to revisit. (Full text of Yahoo’s statement after the jump.)
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via Business Week @ 19:23 13th Jul
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Yahoo late Saturday revealed that it has rejected a purportedly aggressive joint bid proposed by Microsoft and investor Carl Icahn. The deal would have seen both the Windows developer and Icahn buy Yahoo's search business and significantly restructure Yahoo to potentially improve its remaining businesses, including the replacement of the board of directors with Icahn's own slate and remove the "top management team" at the company, which most observers believe would include Yahoo chief Jerry Yang as well as others known to have opposed any of Microsoft's earlier offers for takeovers and partial buyouts.
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via MacNN @ 7:25 13th Jul
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SUNNYVALE, Calif., BUSINESS WIRE -- Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, confirmed today that it has rejected a joint proposal from Microsoft Corporation and Carl Icahn for a complex restructuring of Yahoo! that would include the acquisition of Yahoo!'s search business by Microsoft.
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via DMN Newswire @ 18:38 13th Jul
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SUNNYVALE, Calif., BUSINESS WIRE -- Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, confirmed today that it has rejected a joint proposal from Microsoft Corporation and Carl Icahn for a complex restructuring of Yahoo! that would include the acquisition of Yahoo!'s search business by Microsoft.
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via Oceania @ 10:10 13th Jul
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SUNNYVALE, Calif., BUSINESS WIRE -- Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, confirmed today that it has rejected a joint proposal from Microsoft Corporation and Carl Icahn for a complex restructuring of Yahoo! that would include the acquisition of Yahoo!'s search business by Microsoft.
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via IT Business Net @ 10:11 13th Jul
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SUNNYVALE, Calif., BUSINESS WIRE -- Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, confirmed today that it has rejected a joint proposal from Microsoft Corporation and Carl Icahn for a complex restructuring of Yahoo! that would include the acquisition of Yahoo!'s search business by Microsoft.
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via Consumer Electronics Net @ 5:20 13th Jul
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SUNNYVALE, Calif., BUSINESS WIRE -- Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, confirmed today that it has rejected a joint proposal from Microsoft Corporation and Carl Icahn for a complex restructuring of Yahoo! that would include the acquisition of Yahoo!'s search business by Microsoft.
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via AEC News Room @ 10:16 13th Jul
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SUNNYVALE, Calif., BUSINESS WIRE -- Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, confirmed today that it has rejected a joint proposal from Microsoft Corporation and Carl Icahn for a complex restructuring of Yahoo! that would include the acquisition of Yahoo!'s search business by Microsoft.
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via Consumer Electronics Net @ 10:03 14th Jul
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Yahoo has opened its search technology to third-party developers with Yahoo Search BOSS (Build Your Own Search Service). Yahoo expects BOSS to drive innovation and disrupt the search industry as companies build custom search experiences. Yahoo will look for ways to build revenue for itself and its BOSS partners.
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via NewsFactor Network @ 8:38 12th Jul
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SAN FRANCISCO: Unable to strike a deal on its own, Microsoft Corp. reportedly is hoping to snap up Yahoo's online search operations with the help of News Corp. and Time Warner Inc.
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via International Herald Tribune @ 18:58 2nd Jul
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SAN FRANCISCO-Unable to strike a deal on its own, Microsoft Corp. reportedly is hoping to snap up Yahoo's online search operations with the help of News Corp. and Time Warner Inc.
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via Macro World Investor @ 18:58 2nd Jul
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Yahoo announced Saturday night that it rejected a joint-buyout proposal that Microsoft and investor activist Carl Icahn offered the night before, which called for a "complex restructuring" and sale of Yahoo's search business to Microsoft.
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via CNET News.com @ 10:14 13th Jul
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Microsoft and Powerset confirmed a deal that had been rumored for a few days. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the purchase of Powerset by Microsoft does offer some interesting insight into how Microsoft plans to grow its search business. Powerset is a pioneer in semantic search. Semantic search attempts to understand the meaning of the words users enter into the search engine, rather than simply targeting keywords. According to a story from IDG News Service, Powerset is currently testing a semantic search engine, in part using technology licensed from Xerox's PARC subsidiary. That technology creates a semantic representation of Web pages by parsing each sentence and extracting its meaning.
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via NetworkWorld @ 14:55 2nd Jul
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Microsoft believes that focusing on search intent will help it pull ahead in the race of the search engines, or at least give it a little boost. The company discussed some of its ideas for improving Live Search during a panel at the Search Engine Strategies conference in San Jose this week, and revealed that it has been looking at user behavior to see how it can better tune its search engine to people's individual needs.
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via ActiveWin.com @ 1:26 21st Aug
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Yahoo! Inc., has confirmed that it has rejected a joint proposal from Microsoft Corp. and Carl Icahn for a complex restructuring of Yahoo! that would include the acquisition of Yahoo!'s search business by Microsoft.
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via Midrange Computing @ 3:05 15th Jul
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