Microsoft Yahoo Merger Bid Results: Microsoft abandons bid to buy Yahoo
Software giant walks away from Internet pioneer in price dispute.
Microsoft Corp. has withdrawn its $42.3 billion bid to buy Yahoo Inc., scrapping an attempt to snap up the tarnished Internet icon in hopes of toppling online search and advertising leader Google Inc.
The decision to walk [...]

Google Wins in Microsoft Yahoo Merger Bid. Microsoft and Yahoo were pushed to the brink of a multibillion-dollar marriage and then to a sudden breakup this weekend by the same player.
It was Google, The New York Times says, in the odd dual role of both unwitting matchmaker and self-interested spoiler.
Google’s phenomenal rise, after all, prodded [...]

Microsoft Yahoo Merger Bid: Microsoft and News Corp. lock arms for a joint bid for Yahoo?
Are Microsoft and News Corp. locking arms for a joint bid for Yahoo? That would be something.
According to a report Wednesday in the Wall Street Journal, the two industry titans are in “serious talks” over such a deal.
And a New [...]

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Microsoft introduces tool for avoiding traffic jams
The new service’s software technology, called Clearflow, is an ambitious attempt to apply machine-learning techniques to the problem of traffic congestion.
(From The New York Times)
MySpaceTV inks international distribution deal
ShineReveille International will offer MySpace shows, such as Quarterlife and Roommates to [...]

Microsoft Works Again in Vain On Microsoft Yahoo Merger Bid Offer
After their top executives traded recriminations in an exchange of letters, Microsoft and Yahoo continued their stalemate, with Yahoo shareholders expected to play an increasingly large role in the takeover battle.
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Yahoo continues to reject Microsoft’s $44.6 billion unsolicited bid Monday
Chairman and CEO say $44.6 billion bid is too low in an open letter to Ballmer, but add that Web company is not opposed to some sort of deal.
Yahoo continued to reject Microsoft’s $44.6 billion unsolicited bid for the company Monday.
The Internet company is not opposed [...]

Microsoft Yahoo Merger Bid: Dialogue, Dialogue, Still Dialogue - Microsoft and Yahoo continue to circle each other like wrestlers, each waiting for the other to show its weakness before getting into a clinch. At a time like this, just about anything either side says is pure rhetoric.
That is the best interpretation of today’s report that [...]

Microsoft Yahoo Merger Bid: Yahoo rejects Microsoft’s latest advance
Yahoo has issued a further rejection of Microsoft’s $42bn approach for the internet pioneer, describing its threat to take its offer direct to shareholders as “counterproductive” and inconsistent with its claim to want a friendly transaction.
The letter from Yahoo’s board to Steve Ballmer, chief executive of Microsoft, [...]

Microsoft Waits for Another Refusal from Yahoo, But Patience, No More Waiting
It’s been all over the news: Yahoo’s market value decreased and Microsoft is re-evaluating its offer, sources familiar with the situation reported on Friday, Reuters says. At the same time, The New York Times and Forbes also reported that Yahoo is planning on rejecting [...]

Microsoft Readies to Push Yahoo for Hostile Takeover - Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer has threatened directly Yahoo’s board with a hostile takeover which may reduce the company’s value below their initial takeover offer. In a letter, the software leader has said through its ruthless chief executive that it will take those measures if a deal [...]