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Old May 20th 2008, 10:43 am
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Microsoft Proposing To Buy Yahoo Search?

According to Reuters today MS are considering buying just the search portion of Yahoo, which would be an interesting move.

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Microsoft Corp has proposed to buy Yahoo Inc's search business and take a minority stake in the Web pioneer, stopping short of a full-out merger, a person familiar with the discussions said on Monday.

As part of the deal, Yahoo would sell its Asian assets including significant minority stakes in Yahoo Japan and China's Alibaba Group, while Microsoft would buy a chunk of what remains of the company, the source said.
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Old May 20th 2008, 10:52 am
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I think Yahoo may have lost out on what they could have had, MS won't match their last bid...it can only be less. They bid them up, not giving them quite what they wanted, ...ditched the idea and all the Yahoo! shareholders went nuts! Good strategy actually, Now Yahoo may actually HAVE to take a closer look.
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Old May 20th 2008, 10:53 am
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Buying search sounds about right. MS is going nowhere with their existing search engine.
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I thought Yahoo used Google now?
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